[UNSOLVED] Since 3.1 upgrade, Virus TI crackles and crashes

[slyone]

Since the 3.1 upgrade, I've found that a new track I'm working on sometimes crackles very quietly. The crackling is coming from the TI. The bit that is really bothering me, though, is that SOMETIMES, at a particular point in the track (seemingly the same point all the time, but it only happens very intermittently), the virus emits a very loud 0dB burst of noise, then goes quiet and I can't get any further noise out of it without quitting Live and power-cycling the Virus.

Virus Control seems to be responding to MIDI notes, but no noise comes out of it. Well, I say nothing - on one occasion the burst of noise was slightly longer, and then this proceeded to repeat every second or so until I quit Live.

I use Live 8 (latest version) and Virus Control (latest version) into 3 stereo channels, all out through an M-Audio FW 1814 (with up to date drivers).

I've only been having this problem since a mass upgrade of everything 3 days ago.

Is anyone else seeing anything similar? Does anyone have any tips?

[simog]

I had this along with serious syncing issues and I am also running Live 8.04!! I opted to install the latest beta version of the Virus OS and it solved my syncing issues and seemed far more stable, although a beta is not always for everyone!

I also encountered some strange issues when installing the new Virus software but think this was more to do with my pc.

I haven't had any of the nasty crashes with my setup, but I have had the Virus unexpectedly stop playing the second channel or all channels (no sound!) especially when I am using more than one of its usb outs.

Fix for me is usually to exit Live 8, turn off the Virus, soft reset (pressing arp edit while still plugged in) the virus and then start everything back up again. Seems to do the job!

Oh and the crackling in the same spot in your track may be down to hitting the red on some or all of the ableton effects plugins on your virus channel...I see this happen in some of mine when I have a big sounding 3 osc patch (usually bass) in the project. I was hitting a very short peek which Ableton hated and create a horrible stabby sort of pop on one or both speakers.

HTH