I don’t know what’s causing it, but Dorico and VE Pro won’t connect. When I open a project with some VST’s in Dorico itself, everything runs smooth. When loading a project using VE Pro (large templates), Dorico sees VE Pro, but hangs on connecting to it. I’ve once left Dorico run and wait to see if it would connect eventually, but after a long wait of over 45 minutes still nothing happened, so I force quitted Dorico. A crash dump read showed that the VST audio engine might be causing this, so I’ve enclosed the .dmp file hoping someone with better knowledge of the technical side of this, might find the cause and/or a solution.
Dorico and VE Pro are up-to-date, same with W11 and midi 2.0 running fine as midi plug-in.
W11, 64GB RAM, MSI motherboard and all software on SSD’s.
I know what you mean, but I don’t recall I’ve seen a popup window about a plugin not found. I know this can happen, so I always check this, but didn’t see it.
Dorico starts loading into Ve Pro, first instance starts f.e., then just stalls and nothing happens anymore
Meaning, from the Dorico VST, you click the instance and the VST hangs there, e.g., you don’t get the “Connected” screen? Check in VEP Server if the little connection icon is lit. It’s the first one in the instance tab label on the left (looks like plug).
If it were a network issue, you wouldn’t be able to pick an instance. But since you can select an instance, my guess is it is a problem with VEP Server. Dorico hangs because the VST hangs because the server is doing …?
Yes, sort of. Let’s say there should be five instances, the first one loads, but as soon as the 2nd one appears in VE Pro, nothing happens anymore and waiting for the rest to load makes no sense as they will never do.
You mean there are 5 instances loaded in VEP Server, correct?
So you are in Dorico with the VEP VST open, you click “Connect” and the instance list populates with the first 2 and then stops? So you aren’t trying to connect to any of them you are just waiting for the other 3 to show up in that list. Are you certain the instances are loaded in VEP Server?
Sorry to be so pedantic with these questions, but I’m just trying to understand at what stage things cease to function.
No problem, I’m glad you take the time to solve the issue with me.
This is a normal situation in my case: I have a large orchestral score (my standard template) using VE Pro as host, with all instrument groups in their own instance, sometimes dividing groups into subgroups, f.e. Trompets, Horns and Trombones and percussion in pitched and unpitched, making a total of about 12 instances. Everything is Synchron player, normally a fast loading player compared to players like Kontakt or Opus. The first instance shows in VE Pro, sometimes it loads the instruments, sometimes not. In case it does, then the 2nd instance shows up, but almost never loads the instruments. Whenever there is nothing loading, it seems as if the software is waiting for whatever and then there is nothing happening anymore.
Then, when clicking somewhere in a Dorico window, it greys out and Windows says Dorico isn’t responding anymore. The only options then left are either wait for Dorico to respond again, or quit.
Same here. With Dorico closed, do the instances load manually, I mean, did you save the server project with all the instances in VEP Server or are you relying on the VEP VST to load them from an empty server project? The issue definitely sounds like a VEP problem and the audio engine is just waiting (which freezes the Dorico UI) for the VST to signal that it loaded correctly, which it never does because the VST is waiting for the instances to load, which aren’t loading for some reason.
If you did save the entire server project in VEP Server, try to load it without Dorico, then open your Dorico project that uses them. If you don’t have a saved server project, then I’d contact vienna support. They also have a diagnostics reporting tool from vienna assistant.
That’s a great idea! I do have several saved VE Pro projects which I will check if they load and then try Dorico to hook up with it. Or see if VE Pro broadcasts anyway
I always launch and load my VEP 8 server instances before starting Dorico. Please say whether doing that (and waiting until each window in VEP 8 is fully populated) makes a difference.