[solved] Virus Control disappearing in Ableton Live 7

[Ceri JC]

I am running Virus Control for my Snow TI in Ableton 7. All is fine until I save the project and reopen it. The 4 midi channels sending info to each part, as well as the Virus Control channel (I'm using it in a similar manner to the Snow Ableton Tutorial) are still there. However, the actual Virus Control plugin window does not appear. Deselecting and reselecting "view plugins" does not cause it to reappear. Similarly, minimising and restoring the Ableton Live window doesn't reveal it tucked around the back of the window or anything like that.

Ableton settings are default, except for the "display all plugins regardless of which channel is enabled" one (I forget the exact name, but that's what it does). I have tried turning this off and selecting the snow channel (which would normally make it reappear), but again, this makes no difference.

The workaround I've discovered is to drop the virus control back onto the virus channel, and a new instance of VC appears, claiming there is no Snow available (presumably because the original, missing one is locking it), but after a couple of seconds, this disappears and it syncs up as if it were a new instance. The snow then works, however, the midi channels become de-linked from the snow and need to be re-routed to point to it and the appropriate channel. This is a bit of a faff as I tend to jump between several projects during the course of a session (so have to perform the workaround several times of an evening) and it also prevents me from making a blank "template" Ableton project for use with all new projects using the Snow.

Anyone else encountered this/got any ideas how to get round it?