VIRUS TI Problem thread

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Originally Posted by ben crosland

Really? This sounds very odd.

Firstly, I assume you've installed the latest OS?

Which TI model do you have?

Have you tried resetting the TI (Press ARP EDIT in standby mode, or hold it down whilst plugging in the power cable)? What happens after doing this?

What are you using to transmit midi to the virus? Are you sure you're only sending on one midi channel at a time? If not, this could explain the INIT patch 'playing over every patch' (assuming I'm understanding you correctly here?)

Hi,

I have the latest OS on the TI Keyboard, and I've tried the ARP edit method several times (mostly to restore the TI to normal after a crash). After using this method, the TI works as normal for about 10 minutes, but then problems with patch characteristics, exploding pops and digital noise, and vocoder dropouts keep coming back.

When I get the INIT patch masking other sounds, I'm not using MIDI or USB, just playing keys on the machine, and it plays an INIT patch over the top of the chosen patch, then the whole machine pauses unresponsively for a few seconds, and pop, out comes the digital noise again.

What is most annoying are the sounds that stray out of character. Try this, it happens every single time:

Load ROM-I 49 LowKick RP onto a new MIDI track in Logic Pro 7.1.1, sequence a basic 4x4 beat, and then select another channel to play another part on the TI such as a pad. Play one note on the pad, and the kick patch on the previous channel gets pitched up to sound like a blip. This happens repeatedly on clean Logic projects with a completely clean Environment. What assures me that this is not a problem with my setup, is that if I leave the pad alone, after about a minute of sequencing the blip, it slowly returns to being a kick drum. !!! How can this be? It looks to me like Access spent so long focusing on their Total Integration, and haven't paid enough attention to implementing a solid MIDI instrument because of it. I cannot use the Virus Control with my TI, because it fails to initialise unless I am using the Virus as the Audio Driver - it just crashes if I select the EMI 2|6 as the audio driver - so I've tried to work with the TI as a basic MIDI instrument, and even that falls over.

Also, the TI fails to send MIDI data to logic for more than a few minutes, so if anyone has any tips on how to get the TI to transmit MIDI note data consistently to Logic, I'd be much appreciative - at least then I can use it as a controller keyboard to play Absynth in the meantime...

?1500 of hard earned money, and 6 months of patient time invested in something that is of no use to me.

Very frustrated and unhappy.