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As mentioned in my initial post, I've been using a notation program to compose music. For me, the significantly good thing about Finale (and now Dorico), is that it offers a feature to modify a melodic pattern. For me, I usually create a 4 or 8 measure pattern then run it through a plug-in called, &...

Serious question. . . I'm at a crossroad. . . It's been 43 years since I graduated from music college. (I graduated in 1982, a year before MIDI was developed and implemented.) My degree was "Film Composition". During college, I studied music composition using a pencil and blank manuscript ...

FYI Sonoma 14.5 Public Beta 3 + DP 11.31 + Kontakt 7.9.0 has been running perfect. Zero problems, everything fast and lean on my M2 Ultra. And no more Rosetta. Same here. I just got notification that Sonoma 14.5 Public Beta 4 is available today. What the heck. In for a penny... in for a pound. I'm ...

NI are off the hook this time. Using the Sonoma 14.5 beta Kontakt 7.90 with DP11.3.1 is fixed, no kernel panic crash if two monitors are hooked up and you even look at the GUI. Testing Reaper 7, it's also not crashing. So this was obviously an OS issue, glad Apple got on it, glad I got the beta, an...

Interesting. . . The Native-Instruments website now lists Kontakt 7 as compatible with the Sonoma macOS, after its most recent update. Unfortunately, Kontakt 7 still crashes DP 11 AND my new M2 Mac Studio (that came housed with Sonoma). So far, the work-around, that seems stable for me, is using Kon...

Hi John - My largest VEPro templet has three "Instances", each housing 15 - 20 Virtual Instruments (VIs). Each Instance is configured to handle 8 MIDI Ports, and 56 Audio Outputs. The VIs used are from a rather wide variety of companies including VSL (using Vienna Instruments Pro), Native-...

I experienced a similar crash after updated to Sonoma 14.4. I acted impuslively when updating the Mac Studio's OS. Ugh! :banghead: Interestingly Kontakt 6 seems to work just fine. Also, since updating the freakin' OS, Logic Pro doesn't like many of VSL's IVs (including Vienna Instruments Pro and Vie...

Well. . . The issue seems to be fixed now. After deleting and re-installing both VE Pro 7 and Vienna Instruments Pro, all is working as it should. What seemed to fix the problem is re-scanning the effects and VI plug-ins from within VE Pro 7. I am happy to say that tech support from VSL was very res...

Hello - I'm in the process of migrating my music projects from an Intel-based iMac Pro computer to a "newer" Silicon-based M1 Max MacBook Pro computer. (Both computers have the Ventura 13.6.3 macOS.) Overall, the transition has been uneventful but with one significant exception. I "ho...

After doing some research, I thought it was safe to (finally) upgrade to Apple's Monterey operating system. All is well except for one significant software program: VSL's MIR Pro. This incompatibility is confirmed by VSL. MIR Pro does work well within VSL's VePro 7, but not as a stand-alone program....

Hello - I hope all are having a pleasant Holiday Season! For the past few years, my wife and I have been creating Holiday Videos for our family and friends. Without a doubt, they won't be winning any Oscars or Grammy awards! BUT, they are a lot of fun to create. Our family and friends seem to enjoy ...

So far, so good! DP 11 is working fine for my modest needs. I have a few larger orchestral templets that are "housed" using VSL's VEPro 7. DP 11 interfaces with these templets using VEPro 7 without issue. A nice and welcomed surprise is that DP 10 remains in my application folder unaffecte...

Hello - I own a couple of wireless (on-camera) Sennheiser lavaliere systems. The specific model is the Sennheiser EW 112P "Camera-Mount' wireless system (A: 516 to 558 MHz). They're used on Panasonic GH5 cameras in a dedicated video-recording "Green Room", set up to record my wife's c...

Yes!! When it comes to music-making, this is my favorite web-site to "Lurk and Learn". Thank you for the information that you share. And much thanks to James Steele for keeping this web-site up and running!

Peace. . .

Ted

Hi - To be honest, I'm reluctant to share this because. . . well. . . most of you are Pros, and I'm just a hack hobbyist who likes to compose (whenever I make the time to write music). This is a video of our Spring vacation that we took. . . while staying home. We live near the Berkshire and Catskil...