East West PLAY 1.2.3 available.

[hrw]

http://www.soundsonline.com/updates.php
Unfortunately didn't help stuck notes issue for me which it said that it did in "soome" hosts on the fix list...

[hrw]

I MEANT "SOME".

[b2]

I installed the new play choirs today and followed the tutorial for DP6. What a bizarre set up to have multi record on 7 channels, Oh well, its works.. sort of- but not really. Not as well as the Kompakt player version. Forget about editing data on 7 tracks. If you don't get it right the first time. Oh well. that;s e-w for you.

Anyone else with a similar experience? or rather has anyone gotten the E-W Play Symphonic Choirs to function effectively?

maybe this update will help. not holding my breath. I'll give it a go.

[mhschmieder]

Strange that KVR didn't post this update; I didn't know about it until seeing this (and I checked both last night and this morning for updates).

I'm having tremendous luck with PLAY since 1.2.0 (and maybe slightly earlier). My big crash insitgator now seems to be Kontakt 3.

I haven't experienced stuck notes in the latest PLAY engine. But I've also been editing all my MIDI to start out with "All Notes Off" and "Reset All Controllers".

On a case by case basis, some plug-ins need VOL and/or EXP set to 127 at the start, which I do after the other two commands.

I should have been doing this all along, but fooled myself into thinking I was saving time by not doing this unless necessary.

I would say that these simple actions have gone a long way towards eliminating unforseen workflow side effects during VI rendering.

BTD also behaves much better now, and I use it almost exclusively now vs. real-time rendering of VI's. It too seems to eliminate stuck notes and the like.

[b2]

this update fixed my problem with the PLay Choirs. it works well now.

[Eleventh Hour Sound]

So what's the verdict on EW Symphonic Choirs with the Play engine? Is it more of a hassle than the original Kontakt version? (That one was a bit of a pill to set up too) How are the VOTA?

[Frodo]

So what's the verdict on EW Symphonic Choirs with the Play engine? Is it more of a hassle than the original Kontakt version? (That one was a bit of a pill to set up too) How are the VOTA?

Since this thread started, they've released 1.2.5, fwiw.

I find SC easier to use in PLAY than it was in Kontakt. The hardest part is still setting up a template for the odd way the samples are mapped. But at least I've not gotten the dead air when re-opening a project in PLAY the next day like I did when using the Kontakt version. By dead air I mean no MIDI throughput or sound output.

[Armageddon]

I think PLAY simplifies things a bit, but since switching to Kontakt for my sample-set needs, I barely ever even open it. Ministry Of Rock was just loaded with problems, few of which EastWest seemed willing to fix, and I was kind of shocked when I started buying premium Kontakt libraries (Scarbee Pre-Bass, DirectGuitar 2.1, Epic Drums, DIVA Extended) or specialized instruments (EZ Drummer, MusicLab's Real series) and realized that, for the $500 I blew on MOR in 2007, I could have just bought stuff that actually sounded great without the hard drive clutter, bugginess or processor-intensive operation. PLAY is unduly difficult to work with unless your computer is really up to snuff (and I have MOR, which is a hell of a lot less intensive than something like EWQLSO). I even wound up having to snag Plogue Bidule, based on the advice I kept getting on here, and while it helped with a few things, MOR's other problems continued surfacing. Sound quality aside, I think Kontakt is a much wiser investment.