Thanks for that. VE Pro certainly looks like a great tool to integrate many different technologies that would normally be incompatible. There are a couple of drawbacks with it though:XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:I have tested VE Pro with a friend who uses Logic/Bidule/Nuendo on the 2.66 MacPro Dually.
It is a serious powerhouse, the extra power is incredible as he hardly goes above 40% on all 8/16 cores.
We hooked up his ancient PC slave that uses the Conroe E8400 w/ DFI motherboard, and a newer AMD on another mobo. The XITE-1 worked well on both PC's, but I liked the way sampled instruments could be controlled by the VE Pro as the host w/ Logic. Audio and MIDI was piped through LAN. MIDI had no noticable latency but the audio had a little latency with and w/o the Scope synths and FX. I could feel it as soon as I hit the notes on my controller, but once the audio started being streamed it tightened up to an acceptable level. He says he changed the buffers and settings of his RME card to fix this, but I haven't tested it with him yet. But VE Pro is a perfect way to bring in 3rd party instruments along with VSL libraries, and network PC's to a Mac.
The XITE-1 connected to the Mac would have to disconnect the RME I believe, but that would be the ultimate DAW IMHO. A MacPro w/ an XITE-1, w/o the PC slaves would still be the strongest combination I can imagine. The XITE-1 would route in your analog hardware too.
XITE-1's MIDI is tight. I use a slew of external pedals to control the synths. I even use Scope's MIDI to control my analog synths externally in a loop and it works perfectly. You could use Scope synths on an upper split and the analog for Bass and be quite satisfied. I cannot find any synth from any platform that will replace the low and ultra low end of an analog synth, so of course I will not part with that. However, I find Scope synths outperfrom analog in the upper ranges and with higher polyphony. I sold my Oberheims for Bowen synths and have zero regrets.
1) All slaves need to have a synchrosoft key
2) VE Pro on a Mac can read AU only, not VST (there are a couple of VST only plugins for Mac)
Other than that, it seems great and quite cheap.
From what you were saying about having the Xite on a Mac - sure that would be great and with the Aggregate Devices as well would allow you to use more than one interface together. But, as pollux implied - when??
No, I would have to have the Xite on a PC which could be controlled via VE Pro from the Mac or just sending MIDI and having the Xite's audio outputs going through the Ultralite on my Mac. Until I can get my head round how Xite's routing works, I have no idea how to set it up!
I'll echo what I asked before, though. How can I expand Xite's audio inputs and outputs?