Navigation / The Mixer

The Vienna Ensemble GUI will open in the background of your sequencer.

Hover with your mouse over each icon and you will 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 InstanceMenu Bar lets you activate/deactivate the main visual elements of each instance:

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

1. Start/Stop Engine

2. Start/Stop Transport

3. New Project : Create a new project from scratch

4. Open Project : Open your saved projects: *.vep32 or *.vep64

5. Save Project : Save your projects as *vep32 or *.vep64 files

6. Preferences

7. Auto-Add MIR PRO will automatically add MIR PRO to each new channel (only visible if a MIR PRO license is available).

8. MIRx Mode opens MIRx Settings

9. Snap/Unsnap the selected Vienna Ensemble Instance

In the lower left corner, you can add Virtual Instruments PRO (1) and Vienna Instruments (2), more Vienna Sample Players (3), Input Channels for VI PRO (4), Bus Channels (5) and Folders (6). You can delete selected channels (7) and toggle the narrow channel strip view (7) with 3 different zoom stagesfor the left channel pane.

In the lower right corner, you will find some more information available all the time.

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 instruments 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:

Organize your template by creating folders and subfolders.

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 colour 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 (like 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.

Right-click on the channel you want to change and you have the following options:

• delete/duplicate channels
• copy/paste specific channel settings
• change the name and color of selected channels
• save and insert Channel Sets (all settings and loaded samples on selected channels)
• copy/paste specific channel settings

All channel context options can also be found in the channel menu.

Converting a Vienna Ensemble Project (that contains original Vienna Instruments instances) to Vienna Instruments PRO is possible as well. This option is available in the "Instance" menu:

Merging existing projects, of course also from older Vienna Ensemble templates,is another possibility. 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 you can also set the threads preference per project now: