Please help - Virus TI2 Kbd issues

[simog]

Hi all,

Firstly I would like to say hi to everyone as I am a newbie to this forum but have been lurking and searching for answers to my problem with the Virus TI2 Keyboard.

I recently invested in this synth as I have always loved the Virus sound and I write Trance so it seemed well suited. I run a native setup and what ever I do with the configuration, I simply cannot get the latency issues to improve.

I use Sonar 8 PE, and read on here that there is a problem with the PDC that causes other VSTi's to experience latency when the VC plug is inserted...that is definately true. It makes my project unusable!!
When I switch to Live mode, the latency issues for the other VSTi's is gone. Only trouble is, now the Virus is out of sync!

The Virus doesn't allow recording in real time when live is disabled so I had noticed which is very strange because when I play the keys, the resulting audio appears absolutely spot on, it's just that the midi being transmitted is not in sync with what I am hearing (slightly behind).

I tried a demo copy of Ableton Live 8 too, and although the other VSTi's work perfectly with VC inserted, the sync of the Virus is out, Live or no Live mode.

I don't use the Virus as my sound card, I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for that which I have tried at buffer settings of 128/384/512 and sample frequencies of 44100/48000/96000. I use the ASIO drivers.

I have for testing purposes configured the virus as the soundcard also, but again, similar results.

My PC setup :

Intel Dual Core 2.4Ghz
Asus P5E32-E Mobo with PCIe Nvidia graphics card (hardware acc off)
4Gb Ram
Sata HDD
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card
Firewire PCI card (for use with Powercore)
Windows Vista 32-bit SP1
Sonar 8PE Release 8.3.1
Virus TI software release 3.0.1.15

Who out there has one of these keyboards working properly, with other VSTi's as well in there project with no (or un-noticable) latency and no obvious Midi/Audio sync issues. Please post up your specs as I refuse to believe that the keyboard is no use. It has to be a software / OS / pc hardware issue.
If I need to go Mac to do this then I will!!

Really sorry for the long first post and I really hope someone can help me out here. I want so badly to use this synth as it was intended!

Kindest Regards,

Simon