!!Heres how to update patches or reset virus.!!
 

1/ Get this instead of that poxy soundiver :-

Freeloader v2.0

2/ Make sure your hi page and lo page settings are set to systex in virus. Make sure your global channel and device channel is set to number 1.

3/ Make sure your correct midi ports you want to use are set up in freeloader.

4/ Browse to the midi file containing the data you want to send within freeloader.

5/ Press play!!!!!

6/ Play with ya virus all night and grin a bit :)

*****Important remember not to switch off or unplug any leads while you are transmitting data.

I hope this helps all you poor guys out, ive been fuming all week until i sorted my virus out today. Let me know how y'all get on!

[Edit: Corrected URL/link.]

Maybe this could be a sticky mods? A hell of a lot of people seem to come here for this answer....

Stuck, thanks Sike.

that alesis link doesn't seem to work for me.

I've edited his post, so the link works now.

Thanks Sike!

Hi

I have just buy a virus b. I want to load OS and all patches, to
erase previous owner's work. After reading the manual and this
thread, I set midi channel to 1, device id to 1, memprotect off.
My virus is version T. I play "first_bt_490x049.mid" using midi ox.
Everything seems ok, the data seems to be loadings. At the end,
the display says "Recv. last bank 15". I push "store", but nothing happens.

Can you help me?

BTW, the link to alesis web is broken again.

Thanks in advance,

Miguel

All, I contacted Access support about this issue a few years ago. Their recommended application for loading MIDI files into a Virus (for Windows platform) is Windows Media Player (WMP). I have used WMP several times to load banks of presets as well as a new OS and the 1024 bank update for the C-series. I have also used WMP to load banks of presets on my JV 1080 successfully. I hope this helps you all out as it does not require a link of any kind to the Alesis site if you already have a working PC.

;)

-Alex

It works! Thank you very much!! :-))

Freeloader PC and MAC versions here:
http://www.midiworld.com/quadrasynth/qs_swlib.htm

Only thing you dont mention is putting the virus in update mode. As the manual only specifies this for loading the os from one virus to another (in the virus c manual) i think its worth adding this step?

I didnt get this immediately and spent a lot of time scratching my head getting nowhere in standard mode!