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[paulkeeley]

Originally Posted by synthfiend

As a matter of interest Paul, when you are using the Virus in VC mode are you using the Virus as your sound card or are you using the sound card on your PC ?

Out of all the different ways you can route audio and midi with the TI I am starting to suspect from what I read and have experienced that you get the best performance (latency wise etc) when using VC with the TI as your sound card. Maybe wrong though

i remember trying to use the TI as a soundcard when i first bought it (quite a while ago now) to see if it would solve the latency issue, but didn't notice any marked improvement over my existing audio interface. in fact if i recall correctly, i was getting worse latency when using the TI's audio. anyway, i pretty much dropped the idea then and there, since i have other external gear that i need to be able to record and much prefer to use my trusty FW410 for such things.

thanks for the suggestion though - definitely an option for those who are using their TI without any other external gear.

[oblivion]

Is it safe to use it with just five or six channels and ordinary subtractive synthesis+arpeggios and lots of fx?

I want it badly because of its soundquality, but if it is useless as a multitimbral synth with sloppy timing I have to find an other synth.

Just interested of its subtractive synthesis, fx and arpeggios, dont care about the other synthesis in the Virus TI.

I hope that you have the answer?

Thanks!

[Totty]

Originally Posted by oblivion

Is it safe to use it with just five or six channels and ordinary subtractive synthesis+arpeggios and lots of fx?

I want it badly because of its soundquality, but if it is useless as a multitimbral synth with sloppy timing I have to find an other synth.

Just interested of its subtractive synthesis, fx and arpeggios, dont care about the other synthesis in the Virus TI.

I hope that you have the answer?

Thanks!

Hi Oblivion,

I reckon you'll be ok (don't hold me to it!) If you keep on the standard waveforms and use just effects I believe with VC it will work ok.

[paulkeeley]

Originally Posted by oblivion

Is it safe to use it with just five or six channels and ordinary subtractive synthesis+arpeggios and lots of fx?

I want it badly because of its soundquality, but if it is useless as a multitimbral synth with sloppy timing I have to find an other synth.

Just interested of its subtractive synthesis, fx and arpeggios, dont care about the other synthesis in the Virus TI.

I hope that you have the answer?

Thanks!

i've only having major note timing problems in MIDI standalone mode. so, if you're content only using the synth as a plug-in (with some latency), then you'll be relatively ok on that front, as long as you keep your voice count low. i would say you'd be safe running 2-3 patches with low polyphony/complexity at once. anything above that, and you're asking for trouble. adding big reverbs and long feedback delays will also take a fair chunk of available DSP power, further limiting what you can realistically pull off.

this is specific to the TI Desktop/KB/Polar. if you're thinking about a Snow, then you can cut the performance by half, as it's got half the DSP power as the Desktop/KB/Polar.

cheers,
Paul.

[oblivion]

Thanks! paulkeeley!

[seantyas]

access wrote me trying to weasle out of this.

"This "smearing" is what we have designed it to do"
oh man what a joke.

[Totty]

Originally Posted by seantyas

access wrote me trying to weasle out of this.

"This "smearing" is what we have designed it to do"
oh man what a joke.

That sounds very odd, designed to do?

[grs]

People with this timiming in VC mode try to avoid USB1, or Analog1.
I've had good success doing this, also mooving a bad patch to another part. Then filling the part with INIT patch.
Also set any unused parts to anything not USB1 or Analog1.
I know the timiming isues scince virus b. and now use OS3 TI desktop.

[incubatid]

Originally Posted by seantyas

access wrote me trying to weasle out of this.

"This "smearing" is what we have designed it to do"
oh man what a joke.

WTF Access?!

[paulkeeley]

it's a feature, not a bug!

hmm....i disagree, Access.

incidentally, i still haven't heard back from Access support regarding my specific timing issue. last i heard from them, they said they'd get back to me as soon as winter namm had concluded. so either that means they're going "lalalalala i can't hear you" or they've actually found something and are looking into it further.

i'm guessing OS3 is giving them more trouble than anticipated.