Access Music User Forum

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Quoted from "Djones"

The problem is, once you announce something, I'm distracted and I can't fully function until it's been released :-)
It definitely is annoying, a few weeks until release is doable, but months and months and months isn't very fun anymore.

Agreed. Especially with such a huge update such as this. And yes, it could be that we're just impatient, but personally this is the 1st time since I bought the virus (OS v2.x) that I've actually been slightly annoyed by the amount of time since announcement to release. And I'm pretty sure Access wasn't planning on it taking this long either, as they've missed the "ideal release time" (promotion wise) by a mile now...
On the other hand, it's a free update, one of many, so we can't really complain... I just hope we see the new OS before the next NAMM

Quoted from "scientificharmony"

We can hardly play with it properly
until we have certain elements repaired!

I couldn't agree more. I've tried using the plugin for over 6 months, given up and tried again at least 5 times, and have finally completely given up and gone back to my ancient MOTU 828 Firewire interface. I don't have much confidence that the bugs preventing me from using the plugin will be fixed, but one can hope. The convenience of a single USB connection and easier access to patch parameters than menu diving on the front panel are very alluring, but the Flash Gordon zapping, radical oscillator drift, causing Live to crash, crackling noise, and sound quality degradation just aren't worth it.

I suggest you guys talk to Access Support, I get next to no issues what so ever when using my Virus in Logic, and when I do they're 'caused by settings in Logic or the fact my Protools hardware doesn't like OS Lion. I think OS 4.5 is amazing and although I can't wait to get stuck into the new features announced to be part of OS 5 there's plenty more for me to learn about sound designing on the Virus with what I have already.

ismism and scientificharmony,

lion and logic work for the vast majority of us just fine. so does ableton live. there are no open crash issues in OS 4.5.3
if you don't mind me saying, please try not to compare when you talk about different things. @ismism: i'm sure we can help you troubleshoot your system, access support is very skilled in this regard. @scientificharmony, in the recent weeks you made sure that we know about your 48k problem. it took us a while to reproduce it and there will be a cure for it in the future. the issue you've reported only happens for a very few of us because most macs are just fine and you can switch to 48k and backwards without any problem.

marc