Vienna Ensemble Pro 8 with Dorico 6

Dorico
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Has anyone tried using VE Pro 8 with the latest Dorico 6?

I’m having an issue getting that to work. Have reported to Steinberg and VSL support.

Here’s a write up I did on VI-control:
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Dorico 6.1.10.6078 (Oct 8 2025) is currently unable to utilize VE Pro 8 server installed locally on my Win 10 computer. This is as far as I got:

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I don’t know why “:6473” is automatically displayed after 127.0.0.1. Perhaps that’s that’s related to the issue I’m having. I tried some renaming to get VE Pro 7 and 8 to co-exist, as an attempt use the client for v7 with the server for v7, while having v8 installed. That didn’t work, though I didn’t exhaustively pursue the workarounds: didn’t ask Dorico to rebuild the VST3 cache and I didn’t play around with v8’s network settings in preferences.

Fortunately, Vienna Assistant allows my system to cleanly switch back and forth between having VE Pro 8 and VE Pro 7 installed.

It would be handy if versions 7 and 8 could be installed side by side, especially while version 8 is still brand new. Might also be helpful for navigating version 7 server projects to version 8.

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It’s either v7 or v8

According to VSL this is not possible…

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Yes, works fine so far. Had to obviously install v8 on my client as well. I like the new look

Have you tried simply removing :6473 from the Server text box?

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Yes, I tried remov

Yes. V8 client kept adding it back.
I’m using VEP locally. I wonder if I need to do something with allowing v8 server through my firewall.

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There’s a new setting in VEP 8: “Accept new connections”. Make sure that’s checked. The port is correct as VEP 8 is listening on 6473 on my windows server (but I’ve never seen the client display it). To test the firewall, you can simply disable it for the test then reenable it. If the test is successful, make the granular port adjustment.

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that’s at least more encouraging. Unsure whether I should upgrade. I’m assuming that every Dorico project using it will need to be reconfigured as presumably it will not automatically be able to update the Endpoints - at least when I upgraded Kontakt it was always this problem (unlike with Cubase which can migrate Kontakt automatically)

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As long as you install the version 8 VSTs/AU, then there is absolutely nothing else to do - at least that was my experience this morning.

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Thanks derAbgang!!!

That works.

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ok, I’ll probably have a look at the trial next week then – thanks!

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What’s funny is the the Vienna Assistant after installing Pro 8 now shows VE Pro 7 in my to be downloaded tab, They need to fix that.

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That would allow you to switch back to V7. It’s not a mistake

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Dorico 6 and VePro 8 on an Intel Mac Pro… all good here so far ‘n

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yes - i just installed the trial and it seems fine. Will no doubt pay the upgrade before the sale ends.

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