Fed up

[Royalston]

Hello
I have yet another problem with my hopelessly useless Ti.

Its simple: Turn on Ti.
"establishing usb connection"
"usb connection has been lost"

I have tried different USB ports. The are some things plugged into other usb ports but that is neccessary (I have a usb keyboard and a midiman)- another of the Ti's quirks is that Virus Control will not lauch fully unless I have midi plugged in. Im not using it thru midi but VC asks for it. Actually, plugging in midi cables doesnt work either. VC rarely starts or works.


Im on a G5, OS X 10.4.2, SX 3.1.
Ive been doing this for years - I know how to get a synth working (or I used to at least). I'm really really sick of this.
I waited a year for a synth that doesnt work.

Very very dissapointed.
Royalston

[ben crosland]

I have not heard of these problems before. I'm wondering whether you may have a faulty unit?

At any rate, I'd recommend you get in touch with Access support about this.

[djbrownie]

Actually the TI Snow at my store does this all the time, i've stopped trying, given up.

[djbrownie]

oh, i should add that the ti desktop used on the same computer with the same usb cable and the same virus os works fine. new intel mac pro, os 10.5.3

[psy604]

have you ever tried that snow on a windows PC?

maybe there's a problem with the Snow RTAS plugin in combination with Intel CPU?
(on PC there's a separate plug-in .dll file for the snow, so i guess on MAC it's similar)

got no clue of TI Snow or MAC ... but i think it would be worth a try to narrow down the reason.

or a VST wrapper/adapter would be worth a try, too.

[///OSS]

yeah the reality is that it's impossible to make a piece of software be flawlessly compatible with every variance in hardware out there...so in the case of it's integration features, they are highly dependent on a good stable tested setup.... it's a hit or miss really but more hits than misses I believe at this stage in the game...I have 3 completely different setups and it SUX in one of them but the other two it performs with flying colors.

[Royalston]

thanks ben

[guyur]

Ooooh, I have the same problem too. I'm starting to think there's a bad batch goin round.

[Royalston]

guyur
check your USB cables

that seemed to make a difference for me - The one that access provided with the Ti was faulty. Swapping it solved the connection problem, but Virus Control still doesnt launch.

It did launch immediately after I swapped cables (in an empty SX project), but after I tried using VC in a song that already had elements in it, it failed the USB test and it doesn't launch any more.

It seem random as to whether the Ti will be seen by audio midi setup...

Access support seem as confused about this as me.

[torpor]

one thing that you can try that may provide some interesting results is to get yourself a PCI->USB adapter //just for the Virus TI//, put it in your PC, and plug the TI into this adapter all by itself.

there is definitely a situation with **USB** in the PC world, in that not all USB controllers/chips are considered equal. if you have problems with sustained throughput on your PC motherboard when using USB, then one thing you can do to verify/get around this problem is put another USB controller in there, on your PCI bus, and use that exclusively for your audio/midi needs, leaving the onboard USB ports for your peripherals ..

not saying this is 'the' solution to your problem, royalston, but for sure, were i in your position, i'd get myself a decent-quality USB/PCI card and give that a try, to see if if provides some kind of solution. and it shouldn't be -terribly- expensive to get good quality USB on a PCI card for your PC ..