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Yeah i would like to know is this possible too.
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Franny

A anyone got a answer to this? It would some sort of solution to the non syncing arp's.
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Franny

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When the USB is plugged on the Virus, the physical MIDI ports are routed to "Virus TI MIDI" (in and out), which is a virtual MIDI port accessible from USB. It all behaves exactly as if this part of the Virus became an independant USB-MIDI interface.
If you want, you can route it (from your sequencer, or using midi-ox) to "Virus TI Synth" (the virtual MIDI port used to talk to the synth part of the Virus). I find this a lot more flexible than what you're proposing, and I would not want the Virus to merge MIDI data coming from USB with MIDI data coming from the physical MIDI input port.

My setup takes advantage of this behaviour this way : my MIDI keyboard is plugged to the physical MIDI input port of the Virus. The Virus and the computer are connected via USB. If the computer is off, I can play music directly from my MIDI keyboard. When I switch my computer on, the Virus detects the USB connection and routes MIDI coming from the physical input to the computer. Then I can launch a sequencer and tell it to listen on "Virus TI MIDI" and to output to "Virus TI Synth" (or to the track where lives the Virus Control, if using VC).

I don't know if I'm clear, but my point is that

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record an playback parameters automation via MIDI (old way style, like Virus C) and keep the use of Virus Control at the same time

is already possible.

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Virus cannot send or receive midi data via midi ports when in sequencer mode

Where did you get that idea? I use my virus with VC most of the time and it acts as my main midi hub able to send and receive midi data to/from my gear just fine.

Because USB protocol relies on the presence of a computer.

Something like this may partially work for MIDI output (i.e midi controller -> virus ).