Ok Ive had one person confirm this arp bug.
Damn after the initial 'w00t I own a virus TI' when you sit down and try to write a song its quite depressing how hard it is because of so many bugs.
Just a couple of things Ive noticed when trying to use the TI...
* Playing back a song and going through patches on a track to see what fits - editing the arp causes audio pops/glitches (any latency)
* Mixing down the usb outputs at low latency causes audio warps, pops, clicks ,farts, even pitch bends on certain tracks (yes I am bouncing down in real-time)
* When patch volume has been lowered in vcontrol turning off and on the virus hardware the patch will sound at full volume again even though its still lowered in vcontrol.
* Quite random pitch drop of tracks/patches for no apparent reason while playing a track on usb outputs (any latency)
* On mixdown arp timing is randomly all over the place. Cant pinpoint it, because it sounds fine in the seq but sometimes I mixdown and the arp timing is well out (any latency)
All of these problems occured with only the Virus TI loaded and in use. No other vstis or plugin effects were loaded at all.
There are a few other things, but they are so hard to pinpoint and I really cba tbh. Two things strike me, the arp hates to be modified in anyway and can cause all kinds of audio problems. The USB implementation is quite poor and very buggy. At the moment you have to do things in a certain order to stop certain bugs appearing and its a real workflow killer. I would of hoped that 10 month delay would of sorted most of this out, I dread to think what kind of state it was in last December.
Using the hardware outs is useable to write a song at the moment but USB for me anyway the virus is nothing more than a glorified patch browser and midi controller. Certainly not what I had hoped for from ?1500 hard earned etc /rant.
btw, basic system spec is:
supermicro H8DCE motherboard
Dual dualcore opteron 275s (quad cpu)
4 gig ram
raptor hds
RME fireface soundcard
cubase sx 3.1 - vcontrol 1.0.2r2
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