[pauldavid]

So I have had my virus ti for close to a year now. Installed it and everything seemed fine. Upgraded os to the next one (3) and everything was once again fine. I installed OS 4 and everything was fine. I installed it about a week after it was released so its been running fine for a little while now. Then suddenly last week it all went crazy !!! Cubase would no longer open it anymore ...usb mode was not showing up in the led screen. When I tried to close my open session, cubase froze up and would not close until I turned of my virus. There was a connection showing in the virus control center, but inside cubase it kept saying that it was not connected.. I performed all the steps I have discovered to do........unplug cables.. reset...plug back in ...Try new usb cable ... reinstall os......etc etc.... And I still have this problem ??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All is not lost, because after this weird little fiasco, I discovered somthing very interesting. Before I used to have to turn it on before starting cubase. Now I can turn it on whenever I feel like it. Please note----Usb mode does not ever appear in the led screen, so it is telling me that it is not technically connected right ??? But I can now use virus plugin inside cubase as long as I start up the virus after cubase has opened. But the down side to that it that it always crashes cubase when attempting to close it. EXCEPT if I turn it of before atempting to close cubase. Now the amazing thing is that I have discovered that all this time I was using my virus TI, A lot of the functions were not working and I would not notice it becuase they were things I didnt use to often. For example I used to adjust the EQ inside the TI plugin and strain my ears wondering if I could here a difference I used to just belive that it was a very subtle difference, and decided to use other plugin eqs instead. Well now all of a sudden the EQ is actually working !!! and I was wrong all that time becuase I now hear a huge difference when using it !!! Another section that was failing me was the (and please dont laugh) Arppegiator. I have never really used arps much and didnt mess around with the TI arp at all really. But when scrolling through patches that were arp patches , I used to wonder why they would sound so crap ?? Well the reason was becuase there was no arpigiating going on !!!! Oh the arp page was activated and setup so a sound should run like an arp makes it do...But alas for me there was no arpppppapalalalapp happening !!! But once again for whatever has happened now has bought my arp back to life, and i can listen to the arp patches and hear what they are supposed to be doing ...yeah !!!!! So now I weigh the options ......The old way I had more stability but losing out on certain functions of the TI...Who knows, it could be more but I might of overlooked them. The new way i feel is better ,but defenitly not how its supposed to be at all !!! A balance between both would be ideal. Now I can honeslty say that NOTHING was changed from when i used to use it and until recently (except installing os 4...but I dont blame that really becuase like I say I had it since it came out and not a problem until just recently) One other thing , I lose the ability to right click and add lfo to automation like I used to..I have tried doing it with the clock turned off as well and it wont let me.