Navigation / The Mixer

The Vienna Ensemble Service GUI will open in the background of your sequencer. Hover with your mouse over each icon to see a description in the lower left corner (with the corresponding shortcut, if available)! The Context Menu you get by right-clicking in the area to the right if the Instance Menu Bar lets you activate/deactivate the visual main elements of each instance:

The taskbar in the upper left corner contains the following icons:

1. Enable/Disable Instance

2. Start/Stop Engine

3. Start/Stop Transport

4. New Project: Create a new project from scratch

5. Open Project: Open your saved projects, the format is: *.vep64

6. Save Project: Save your projects: *.vep64 files

7. Preferences

8. Unsnap/Snap Instance

In the lower-left corner, you can add all available Vienna Sample Players (1), New Input channels (2), bus channels (3), and folders (4). You can delete selected channels (5) and toggle the narrow channel strip view (6) with 3 different zoom stages for the left channel pane. In the second row, you can add a new Vienna Sample Player with one of the shortcuts.

In the lower-right corner, you will find some more information available for each connected instance.

Channel Configuration, Tempo (BPM), Plug-in Latency Compensation (in samples), CPU Meter.

Note: Plug-in Latency Compensation can be disabled in Preferences.

Move channels in the Channel Pane or Mixer according to your preferences. You can collapse single channels (in the mixer) and expand and collapse all channels by holding down Shift. It is possible to undock the Mixer, the Channel Pane, the interfaces of all Vienna sample players, and MIR Pro (if available) to use these windows in separate windows (or on a second screen). To customize your mixer view, choose which mixer elements should be displayed in the lower-left corner of the mixer:

To drag channels into a folder, select the channels you want to move and drag them into the upper part of the folder until you see a small gap at the end of the orange line that shows up, then drop the channels.

You can expand and minimize each folder by clicking the small arrow in the folder channel. Each folder will create an extra line for orientation, which will be displayed in the color of the folder.

To undock a window within an instance, double-click its title bar or click the small undock button in the upper right corner. To dock an undocked window again, double-click its title bar.

To re-arrange a docked window (as shown below), simply click and drag its title bar over the main window.

Indicators will be displayed when you’re placing the window over a valid location on the main window.

The Instrument window offers the option to unsnap individual instruments.

The big Unsnap button in that window lifts that particular instrument's user interface out of the shared area and makes it a free-floating window.

1. Delete/ duplicate channels

2. Save and insert Channel Sets from Disk (all settings and loaded samples on selected channels)

3. Copy and Insert Channel Set to/from cache (new in Vienna Ensemble Service 7)

4. Copy/paste Feature (specific channel settings)

You can copy and paste specific parameters of each channel. Additionally, you can also define the name and color of selected channels.

Merging existing projects (of course also from older Vienna Ensemble templates) is a possibility on the Instance Level.

We have also added the option to set a pan law (both a default setting and a per-project setting), which applies to all included panning plug-ins. And now you can also set threads preferences per project: