Access Virus Ti2 in SonarX2A PE +usb issues and options

I am a bit confused.

You are attempting to use the Virus Control component within Sonar?  I presume that is for controlling the knobs and whatnots.

I looked at the support site for Access, and there are a total of ZERO articles on their site dealing with using Virus Control with Sonar.

Are you SURE this is supposed to work?

Also, the Ti2 will appear as a choice for midi input devices, with the name 'Virus TI Synth'.  You should be able to add that in preferences.

So, please explain a bit more about precisely you are trying to hook up, so that I can better assist.

Thanks, sorry I am a bit denser than usual today.

Bob Bone

I have installed Virus Control, and it shows up on the insert synths list. I cannot enable the drivers on the preferences page where the Tascam's inputs and outputs are. The Virus is there (both in and out and Ti2 and Snow which I am not sure why that is like that), but I cannot check the boxes. I had not added it as a midi input device at that point.
Michael

DuH! Thanks. I was hung up thinking only one usb I/O at a time (which is also true for Sonar? Yes?). I forgot about ASIO.
   I am not sure that I want to go (preamps, etc) into the inputs on the Virus, which would-could act as my audio interface via usb. I am completely new to the Virus, well for that matter X2PE and Win7hp 64bit, too. I've owned synths since the late '70s, and always played them into a track with simultaneous midi, to experiment with the midi track with new sounds-programs. I assumed the Virus Control would expand my options, perhaps it still will.
Thanks Michael
 
 

pentimentosound


...and Snow which I am not sure why that is like that),

Hey Michael - long time Sonar/Virus TI2 user here.  There aren't a lot of us here, so another is always a welcome sight.  As for the Snow plugin, the software automatically installs both the Virus and Snow .dll's whenever you run the installer.  If you don't have a Snow and don't plan on adding one, you're fine just deleting the Snow .dll from your vst folder (from both the 32-bit and 64-bit locations).

You don't need to switch the audio drivers to use the TI2 in Virus Control mode.  You would only switch the audio driver if you want to use the Virus TI2 as a soundcard for recording or monitoring.  If you are only using it as a plugin via USB, insert the Virus plugin as a synth and it will automatically sync with the hardware.  You'll then be hear the audio through your Tascam, just as you would with any other soft synth, the difference being that the Virus hardware is actually generating the sound and using its own processing power, rather than your CPU.  Hopefully I understand your question correctly.

Oh that is very clear and REALLY helpful cryophonik! Thanks a lot for that!
   I have no experience with the Ti2 (or earlier versions), other than loving the sounds enough to buy it! As my wife likes to say, it is a "Big, in a HUGE way" step from my first SH101. I am curious about using it as an audio interface, though getting this new gear set up and working+ getting used to X2PE and finishing up our current project is my priority.

It is not the connector type that is the issue. Each of the devices you are describing are distinct audio interfaces. You could connect and use a USB midi device and a USB audio device no problem. But you are not going to be able to connect multiple USB audio devices and use them at the same time in ASIO mode.

We love it up here! Though we continually threaten to buy another RV and winter south or west and certainly, warmer! We are having a little blizzard at the moment, but don't have to go anywhere, which really takes the edge of that! I've spent a lot of my life in Michigan, after moving up from Chicago, and have moved back from New England, Austin, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington state, though we talk about the northwest often.....we did this morning! 
   Thanks for your help!  I will PM you once I mess with a little and want more info on it!
I listened to the track on your page. Nice!
Michael 

I believe that the solution was posted earlier.  You should be able to leave the Tascam as your ASIO device, and insert the Virus Control as a soft synth.

You can have a zillion USB devices - only ONE ASIO device can be used at a time.  So your other USB connections, like from your Fender, are fine.  I have a Presonus ASIO interface plugged in with USB, and my Yamaha midi keyboard is also plugged in as USB.  

Here is what that phonik guy posted earlier:

"You don't need to switch the audio drivers to use the TI2 in Virus Control mode.  You would only switch the audio driver if you want to use the Virus TI2 as a soundcard for recording or monitoring.  If you are only using it as a plugin via USB, insert the Virus plugin as a synth and it will automatically sync with the hardware.  You'll then be hear the audio through your Tascam, just as you would with any other soft synth, the difference being that the Virus hardware is actually generating the sound and using its own processing power, rather than your CPU.  Hopefully I understand your question correctly."


Read the above carefully - this is what will work for you to control the TI2 through Sonar, WHILE using the Tascam as your actual selected ASIO device in Sonar.  Make the Virus Control insert as a synth.  It is a PLUGIN.


So, please give the above a shot and post back with results, 

Bob Bone