Pops and clicks

[Numina]

To be fair, I felt it necessary to follow up here on my pop & click rant and mention some surprising results... After having owned my TI1 for some time now I decided it was time to splurge on a TI|2 Polar as I may be using this for gigging some time soon and wanted not only a smaller synth but a TI with more power.

I spent this morning loading up my old singles and multis and lo and behold I have the SAME EXACT issues as before - i.e. pops and clicks! So, the good news is I do not own a faulty or defective TI1. I am thankful for this. The disappointing news is that I apparently eat up way too much processing power in multimode - it seems to be related to heavy use of reverb although I can't say for sure. I will say that the pops and clicks are less frequent in the TI|2 but not only do I still have these issues, I've had the unit lock up on me already and do some crazy light shows when testing the the Multi-Channel mode setting (the same issues I've experienced on my TI1). So, I guess this is just the way these synths are. Hope I did not offend anyone at Access with my rant - it's still a pain, but I can live with it because IMO the Virus TI is, hands down, the ultimate in atmospheric pads and I couldn't live without it.

Bottom line is, for those of you who do experience pops and clicks, particularly in multimode and using a lot of effect, you likely do NOT have a defective unit. Rather the TI is just limited by the sheer amount of processing going on in complex programs.

I would much prefer running into voice stealing / cutoff notes rather than harsh pops and clicks, but this is just something we're going to have to live with.

J.