Roland VirtualSonics Legendary & AIRA Series 2018.12 CE-VR

This might sound a bit too technical for some, but some will understand, I hope. V.R?

Here are my findings, in VM Windows7x64 with Reaper 4.78:

Loading times are... let's say "tricky". In other words - not fixed, but they are perfectly normal in *some cases*. The problem seems to be the network adapter. Roland Cloud wants one present, as you might have guessed, otherwise Roland Cloud can't work when there's no *Internet access*. So I've tested three different cases:

1) When you disable the network adapter completely, everything works perfectly and loading times are normal. This is how it should be, and this is the *best case*.

2) When your network adapter is enabled, but there's no Internet access with it, as in my case, since I have Windows OS'es networked but no Internet access, loading times are incredibly long, actually I couldn't even load them, or maybe I wasn't patient enough? But this is the *worst case*.

3) When your network adapter is enabled, and you have Internet access with it, as it will never be in my case from Windows [;)], you will be able to load the project with Roland plugins, and the loading times for new instances of these plugins will be normal, but loading any different Roland plugins that are *not present in the project* will result in a very long loading time and a CPU spike. If you start a new project, the long loading time will appear at some point, not sure how. But let's call this one a *workable case*, as you could possibly pre-load the Roland instruments you're planning to use with the project and get normal loading times with these.

I'm not sure what my conclusion is... I'm saddened it works so badly when you have the network adapter enabled, but no Internet access, like in my case. Also, there are more than a couple of plugins which look for the network adapter in order to work, like Waves and Korg, for instance. So it would be really nice to make these plugins work when there's network adapter present, but no Internet access.

I was thinking maybe blocking the Roland Cloud website in the hosts file could help, but after some pondering about it I guessed probably not. However, I don't know Roland Cloud's address anyway, so I could't test it.

Anyway, I still think this is a great piece of work V.R and a move into the right direction! I especially love the portable mode installation. Great! I don't need to make my own "manual" installations any more.

Cheers!

p.s. Sorry for the long post but I think it's worth it. :)

Roland made an update to the cloud manager and concertro, both in regards to performance. The rolandclan forum is full of people complaining about plugin performances. I think the JV1080 plugins are using way to much cpu.

Did you try change the settings in the options and tick
Optimize for lower CPU Usage
most of the plugins have this in the drop down list
and you can also lower the Voices.

Don't know if I understood well but if you never installed any of this just install the Roland Cloud emulator, then all this.

No. It's only x64. And most of these plugins are so inefficient and use so much resources like there's no tomorrow. Well, there isn't... If programmers continue programming on Cray computers for Cray computers, and learn the art of programming from Arturia programmers.