Soundiver with Virus

[Doc Jones]

are most of you using the version of soundiver that comes with your virus to control your virus and save settings or some other program?

[Panopticon]

soundiver works fine for me...

[jasedee]

Yup....I use Sound Diver (Mac OSX). Works great!!!

[Merlot]

Don't use it at all. Why mess with it when you have a million knobs in front of our face. It is understandable if you have the XL or rack, or even are doing patch management, but to make patches, use the interface. If you want a virtual virus, get the powercore version.

[Hollowcell]

Don't use it at all. Why mess with it when you have a million knobs in front of our face. It is understandable if you have the XL or rack, or even are doing patch management, but to make patches, use the interface. If you want a virtual virus, get the powercore version.

Yep, same veiw of it here too.

Why do you ask though Doc?

[Doc Jones]

Actually I was referring to it in terms of patch management - ie moving sounds around and storing them on my computer. I've had alot of problems transferring sounds using soundiver where it will freeze and hang during a simple sound transfer (let alone a full bank) so I have been recording the individual sounds as sysex in cubase. Last night I had been twiddling with the knobs for a few hours and came up with a fantastic sound, but couldn't remember exactly all the settings I had changed to achieve it. This is where I am guessing soundiver would come in as once I open the sound I had been tweaking in memory into soundiver - I would get a shot of all of the parameters and their values, correct? The problem is that it keeps freezing sporadically and I am afraid to lose my work. I think the problem has to do with my midex 8. So I suppose my questions are
1. Anyone using a midex 8 with Soundiver without any problems and
2. The people who are using Soundiver w/o problems, are you using the full blown version of the program or the limited edition one that ships with the virus synth? Thanks.

[Onkel Dunkel]

I got the same shit with sounddiver hanging, doing strange thing, etc. so i don?t use it at all now :?

[harrystainer]

I hate sounddiver. It was always slow and buggy and I have a decent Pc so thats not to blame but it also messed up with of my stored patches. Like Merlot said, use the virus' interface, its much better.

[Doc Jones]

ok, good to know it isn't just me.
So do you guys just store you newly made sounds in your sequencer using Sysex transfers (for safe keeping)?

[juffi]

Well first of all i wanna say i am new here to this forum, greetings to everyone.

Here is my experience concerning Sounddiver , my Virus C Rack XL and Midex 3 interface: when i worked with sounddiver, i noticed that i can send some single patches into my virus, but going into multimode and requesting complete banks and so on sounddiver crashed and i couldnt kill the task even in the task manager ! So i changed simply the midi-interface into a Midisport USB 2x2. This is working so good , it is freaking awesome! I can even work simultaneosly with Sounddiver and Cubase SX. I am working under WIN XP Pro, P4 and a Intel Mobo (Asus p4p800), using Sounddiver Virus.

[Doc Jones]

yeah, that's exactly what I get with large transfers. I think I am going to pull my midex out and go back to my old midi daisy chain config or perhaps look into the midi sport.

[Drammy]

I think a working Soundiver set-up is all down to good MIDI equipment.

I used to have an Audiophile 2496. A good soundcard but it kept losing sync with my Virus XL when using Soundiver.

I upgraded to an RME HDSP 9632 and bought some expensive gold plated MIDI cables - sorted!

Soundiver works like a charm now!


System config - P4 2.8 Hyperthreading
P4P800 -VM mobo
1.5 Gig RAM
UAD-1
Powercore PCI
RME HDSP 9632
Matrox Millenium G550 with Dual monitor set-up


Soundiver is extrememly annoying - it should not be necessary to have to buy expensive, top quality equipment to make it work! But that is what I did...


Drammy

[Timo]

Using the included SoundDiver version with the Indigo never worked with me. It just failed to communicate via MIDI no matter what I tried.

Changed to the full version and it worked a dream, straight off.

[Doc Jones]

do they even make a full blown version anymore. I looked all over for a latest windows version, but didn't see anything.

[Timo]

http://www.sunesha.nu/virusforum/viewtopic.php?t=3177

The latest PC/Windows version still works up to and including the C-strain of Viri.

[Doc Jones]

thanks for the info, but it doesn't seem like you can even buy that version anymore. It's no big deal as I have gotten used to using sysex dumps to save everything and move things around.