On the advice of Cakewalk tech support I disabled "Enable Delay compensation" and as long as I have the LIVE button permanently enabled in the TI plugin, I seem to have got rid of the latency problem.

CW support also suggested configuring the TI plugin as a ".. tempo-based effect" in the Sonar Plugin manager rather than as a synth. It seems to be working OK as a synth for me: what does everyone else have it configured as ? And what practical difference does it make, in the way that Sonar handles it ?

Now all I need to do is fix the pitch drift problem when using Virus TI .....

By cryophonik
And, let's face it - while I love my Virus, it's certainly not the most stable, problem-free piece of hardware on the market - just go check the Unofficial Access forums or Infekted.org and you'll see complaints from people using every DAW imaginable.

Is this instability present when using the Virus TI in standalone mode? Because my Virus B has been rock-solid for years, and I'd be sad to hear if the TI is worse when used in the same way. (I might upgrade one day... ;) )

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By cryophonik
And, let's face it - while I love my Virus, it's certainly not the most stable, problem-free piece of hardware on the market - just go check the Unofficial Access forums or Infekted.org and you'll see complaints from people using every DAW imaginable.

Is this instability present when using the Virus TI in standalone mode? Because my Virus B has been rock-solid for years, and I'd be sad to hear if the TI is worse when used in the same way. (I might upgrade one day... ;) )

I don't think so, but I always use mine in TI mode. And, mine has also been rock solid for years (until this beta OS). The problems that I was referrring to are not ones that I have experienced myself - rather, just what I've observed by reading other peoples' experiences on those forums.

It looks like the official 2.7.2 OS has been released. It's available on the Access website downloads page.

OMG!!!

mystp


I recently replaced my trusty Access Virus C with a Virus TI, which promises "total integration" with the host sequencer. In theory, this means that you should be able to control the Virus TI (manage patches, tweak individual sounds, get total setup recall etc) through USB with the supplied Virus Control VST-plugin. However, my experiences with this plugin in Sonar have been less than stellar, as I'm encountering some pretty grave latency issues with it.

Now, it may or may not be my specific setup that's causing the problems - though a number of other Virus TI users are reporting latecy problems as well - but the reply I got from Access support really caught me by surprise:
Apparently, they can't help out, as Sonar isn't on their list of supported sequencers - something I was totally unaware of when I purchased the synth. Instead, they recommend that I use the Virus TI as a regular synth, without the sequencer integration. That gets rid of the latency problems, but this is hardly how I intended to use it when I bought it in the first place.


This is quite sad, as the Virus TI is a great-sounding synth and the total integration element seemed extremely promising. Perhaps it works for other Sonar users and hopefully I'll get it to work in my setup as well at some point, but things don't look to good right now.

So to any Sonar users considering to purchase the Virus TI: Sonar isn't officially supported by Access yet, so for the time being, you're out of luck if you encounter any latency issues with the Virus Control plugin in Sonar.

You can read more about this on the thread: http://virusti.com/forum/index.php?s=1f773f811f91a33bebba3988b8a42bbd&act=ST&f=10&t=390&st=0&#entry3111

(Oh, and if anyone have any suggestions on how to solve the latency issue I'm describing in the Virusti.com-thread, I'd love to hear from you!)

- Asbjoern