I posted a rather long-winded rant about this problem on virusti forum a while ago, only to have some rather fanboyish and overzealous board members along with Ben Crossland tell me that the problem was me in no uncertain terms. I was especially disapointed with Ben's blatant denial that problem exists, where as evidence is very clear.
So, yes - I've also experienced it on EVERY TI MK1 - desktop, keyboard, keybard (again), polar and Snow (though on snow, it seemed a lot more well-behaved for some reason, perhaps it's the hard limit of 4 patches and optimized patches).
The last TI I owned - Polar - had even worse problems. Pressing two adjacent keys in a multi arrangement would force stuck keys, I never even used Virus Control because it made playing the synth impossible. Zips, cracks, pops, stuck notes, tons of problems. I even had a system board swapped out in my last polar and still came back with most of them. I finally gave up and dumped it.
On TI 2 I haven't noticed it, which leads me to believe that perhaps the whole reason why TI2 exists is simliar to Windows 7 - it's a bug fix to irreprable problems. Seems like original hardware was crappy, so Virus axed it and released Virus 2 to stop flooding the market with buggy hardware that was bound to tarnish the brand. Smart move, if this is in fact so.
But to address original poster - in my experience with TI2 for the last 24 hours, I'm happy to report that previously noted artifacts seem to be addressed in new hardware, as long as you don't choke the synth with obscene patches. I had 4 "level 5" patches running nicely in a multi without much nonsense.
But... I did notice that ARP was out of sync with the rest on one of the patches. It may be either patch itself, apr pattern or perhaps OS. So far, TI2 seems to be at least better in that area. I won't say it's gone until I've spent enough time with it.
Personally, I'd suggest dumping the original TI while you can and prices are still high.
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