I am in the early stages of using VEPro 8 with Dorico 6 and hope to build a VEP Server template for orchestra that I can use repeatedly. I suspect the way to do this might be to make parallel “master” templates for Dorico Playback and VEPro Server, each containing virtually all instruments I might u…

I do it almost like you are suggesting: One Dorico “template” with every conceivable instrument paired with the VEP server project with the same instruments. What I don’t do is delete any instrument until the very end (and never from VEP server). I rather select/unselect wanted/unwanted instruments…

If you create one project with all your instruments in it, connected to VEPro for each instrument, you can then save the endpoint config and make a playback template. Then for future projects you can add just the instruments you need in Dorico and the playback template will assign them to the corre…

[image] John_at_Steinberg: you can then save the endpoint config and make a playback template. That works but there are caveats documented throughout this forum, e.g., new instrument attempts to load the VEP VST and connect to an already connected instance, IVP etc. If one isn’t going to the …

With the Iconica version I did there are e.g. two of most woodwinds loaded in VEPro, so as long as you only add e.g. two flutes in Dorico it will use both of those. If you add e.g. a third flute in Dorico then you’d need to add a new instance in VEPro too (e.g. by duplicating the Woodwinds instance…

[image] John_at_Steinberg: If you add e.g. a third flute in Dorico then […] That’s actually my point. If you go to the trouble of creating endpoints and playback templates wrapped in a project template, new instruments (as in a 3rd flute in your example) aren’t handled correctly. If the playb…

The Master Dorico Project Template in combination with a corresponding VEP project, with all you could ever need, is definitely recommendable if you use independent voice playback. With Dorico playback templates you will get a mess with IVP. I normally use coupled instances. So if I cleaned up a Do…

Ideally you’d make a template that includes the largest number of instruments you might need (or maybe even falls back to use some locally loaded instruments). Either way, using a template to load most of what you need would still be quicker in most cases? If not, you have your preferred method …

[image] John_at_Steinberg: using a template to load most of what you need would still be quicker in most cases? Definitely. I just wanted the OP to be aware of the tradeoffs using project/playback templates with VEP.

[image] John_at_Steinberg: This is basically how my Iconica Sections & Players VEPro template works … or would work, if it did :slightly_smiling_face: [image] VEPro server project file for Iconica does not load instruments Dorico I have installed Iconi…

Thank you @derAbgang , @John_at_Steinberg and @mavros for your helpful responses! I think I understand most of what has been said but have some related questions. [image] derAbgang: What I don’t do is delete any instrument until the very end (and never from VEP server) Do you make mixer adj…

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… or would work, if it did