HELLO THERE. NEW VIRUS B USER FROM SCOTLAND

[JIETEE]

Hello there. I am a 23 year old guy from Glasgow in Scotland. I just recently bought a G5 mac and a load of studio equipment which included an Access Virus B. I am looking forward to learning how to produce music and I will be spcecialising in dance music. I know that you can either have 3 stereo outpus from the Virus b or 6 mono outputs. I am needing help as to how to set this up. I have currently just got one output from it just now as I am not sure how to set this up. Any advice would be appreciated.

thanks :D

[Wandering Kid]

yo!

you would need to look for the midi out port on your soundcard. connect the midi out to the midi in port on the virus. then using 1/4" TRS jack to 1/4 " TRS jack (the big headphone jack to jack cables) you would connect the left and right audio out (L/Phones R/Mono one) to 2 audio inputs on your soundcard (which will correspond to left and right stereo channels). that will enable you to play back sound from the virus and record sound from it. make sure you assign your soundcard a MIDI port and make sure that your MIDI playback device is set to send MIDI data from that port.

about the g5...you have my ENVY. 8O

[tranzash]

Welcome :D Enjoy your vir B...

[jasedee]

~Welcome Ti Planet Virus~

Tell us a little more about the rest of your studio gear, and we can try and get you setup as best as possible

See ya round'

:)

[Hollowcell]

Welcome! :D

About the outputs; I usually run 2 stereo pairs out of my Virus. To set this all up, (from memory) it's all in the main edit menu.

[3o3]

O'hoy another member in sight!

Polly wants a cracker and she also says welcome mate

[Wandering Kid]

soon everyone in the world will have a virus! mwaha! then i can press the red button on my special remote control and the lcd panel on every virus in the world will shoot out this red beam into all of your foreheads and you will all become my thrulls. mwaha. mwahahaha!!11

[JIETEE]

Hello there again. I am gratefull for all of your advice. The details of my setup are below. I tried to post a picture, but it said the picture was not allowed.
Thanks

Apple G5 2.0 Ghz 1.5gig ram
Cubase SX3
M-Audio audiophile 2496 soundcard
Yamaha 16 channel mixing desk
Midiman midisport 8x8
Yamaha CS1X
Access Virus B

[blay]

hello jietee and welcome to the forum :D

thats certainly a nice little setup you have there - but i was wondering what you are using for monitors?

[JIETEE]

Hello there again. I am just using some speakers I had before I bought all the studio equipment. I am currently reading up about monitors so I can find out what ones are the best for my budget. I have been looking at some second hand Yamaha NS-10's and some KRK rockits. Any suggestions anyone. I will be specialising in dance music.

Thanks

[blay]

i have nothing good to say about the krk's.
you cannot get replacement cones for the ns-10's anymore (i think - can anyone confirm this?)

im currently using a set of tapco s8 actives - 120watt per side bi-amplified - they are an excellent mid-priced set of monitors - and the 8-inch drivers are capable of really good bass response which is important seeing as you wish to produce dance music.

anyways good luck with it mate and let us know how you go :D

[jasedee]

You dont need NS10's "Cos every studio has em"....they are actually a really nasty sounding monitor...

Just get a 'nice' pair of monitors for accuracy, and then check mixes on home Hi-Fi, car, whatever....or buy some other bookshelf speaker. I have a pair of 'Mordaunt Short' bookshelf speakers for reference, but rarely use them

If you know your monitors well, and know how they translate in the real world, you will be fine......

KRK's???? I dont like em either, but to be fair, it wasnt actually the ideal environment I was listening in. I regret my monitor choice (Tannoy) and wish I had waited a little longer and bought something better (Mmmm....BM6A's)

Good luck!

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Hello there again. I am just using some speakers I had before I bought all the studio equipment. I am currently reading up about monitors so I can find out what ones are the best for my budget. I have been looking at some second hand Yamaha NS-10's and some KRK rockits. Any suggestions anyone. I will be specialising in dance music.

Thanks

Hello

You'd be alot better off looking into the Yamaha MSP10's as opposed to the NS10. The NS10 are shocking in all senses of the word lol. Failing that...try and pict up a second hand pair of Mackie 624 or 834...for around ?5-600.

DS

[Wandering Kid]

i monitor on sony in ear fontopia headphones and its a nightmare :? i should invest in some monitors too. i have my eyes on tannoy reveals and alesis m1 actives. both are kind of lower end budget active monitors that you may want to check into for not so expensive monitoring solutions. i havent really heard very many bad things about them. if you are stretched for cash after the virus purchase (heheh. like me)

check out monitor headphones.

currently, audio technica ATH-A500s are getting rave reviews at the budget end of the scale. the ATH-A900s are getting rave reviews on the serious side of things. check them out on audiocubes.com. they look fucking cool too :wink: