dmacintyre
26.08.2006, 10:10 PM
OK, my virus ti arrived today.
First things first. God it's gorgeous. For someone used to soft synths, at last I have knobs to twiddle (fnarr fnarr).
Anyhoo, I haven't had a chance to properly explore because the fiancee wanted to go to town today to compile a wedding gift list (like that's important!). But one thing struck me since having 5 mins to start testing it on my return home. As a sound card, for some strange reason it seems to outperform my firewire based Presonus Firebox!!! As an example, I had composed a busy score to accompany some footage for the BBC Galapagos competition in Logic Pro. Eight instances of kontakt, a couple of Albino and some misc Audio tracks. With my Firebox, Kore and core audio, I had to freeze all tracks to get the thing to playback without glitches, warnings and hangs but with Virus Ti as the soundcard (sharp intake of breath).....the whole thing played back complete with movie, unfrozen, without glitches. WTF? How does it do it? What IS strange is that the latency of 1028 which everything else works at in Logic with no live input latency seems to result in very obvious delay between striking key and hearing sound in VC plugin. Plugging MIDI cable directly into Ti seems to bypass this. Must investigate further. Initial impressions are very good though.
Looks like a 5.30am sunday morning rise, gallon of coffee, headphones on. Bliss.
Kind regards to all.
David
First things first. God it's gorgeous. For someone used to soft synths, at last I have knobs to twiddle (fnarr fnarr).
Anyhoo, I haven't had a chance to properly explore because the fiancee wanted to go to town today to compile a wedding gift list (like that's important!). But one thing struck me since having 5 mins to start testing it on my return home. As a sound card, for some strange reason it seems to outperform my firewire based Presonus Firebox!!! As an example, I had composed a busy score to accompany some footage for the BBC Galapagos competition in Logic Pro. Eight instances of kontakt, a couple of Albino and some misc Audio tracks. With my Firebox, Kore and core audio, I had to freeze all tracks to get the thing to playback without glitches, warnings and hangs but with Virus Ti as the soundcard (sharp intake of breath).....the whole thing played back complete with movie, unfrozen, without glitches. WTF? How does it do it? What IS strange is that the latency of 1028 which everything else works at in Logic with no live input latency seems to result in very obvious delay between striking key and hearing sound in VC plugin. Plugging MIDI cable directly into Ti seems to bypass this. Must investigate further. Initial impressions are very good though.
Looks like a 5.30am sunday morning rise, gallon of coffee, headphones on. Bliss.
Kind regards to all.
David