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sp33s

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Sunday, May 13th 2012, 6:04pm

At times the Virus Snow distorts until I turn it off, but only via USB

Hey everyone,

Sometimes whenever I use my Virus in Ableton or in a standalone VSTi host, it distorts like crazy. And not in a way that might mistakenly may have a dist FX on it, it really goes apeshit on the -INIT- patch.

This only occurs on USB. Whenever I leave Ableton, and play via MIDI cables it all seems OK. It will only dissapear if I



turn it off and on again

Any idea why this is?


PS: Running Win7 x64 here.

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Sunday, May 13th 2012, 6:35pm

Is the snow acting as your soundcard as well?

When the distortion starts, if you solo an audio lane (recorded/sample, not synth), is it distorted as well?

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Sunday, May 13th 2012, 7:33pm

Yes, it's acting as a soundcard. Other audio is not affected. I tried pulling in NI Massive and it sounded normal.

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Monday, May 14th 2012, 10:16am

USB problems usually sound like crackle and skipping. I'm having a hard time to understand what you mean by apeshit... Did you have a look at the VST configurations in general and the ones for the Virus specifically to see if there is a buffer that is too low of something?

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Monday, May 14th 2012, 11:59am

Can you try it with another DAW? Some time ago I had also some distorted sound issue with Ableton.

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Tuesday, May 15th 2012, 9:58pm

flabberbob > these are two detuned saws, aka the INIT patch, when my Virus goes crazy. I called it apeshit in C-D-E: http://www14.zippyshare.com/v/47539995/file.html

kilow > I don't have another DAW, but I have tried it in MiniHost, a VST host, which shows the exact same problem.. so it's not an Ableton thing

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Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 9:56am

I've experienced something similar with my snow, where after leaving it on for a long while *everything* starts to sound heavily clipped, and with a static-y tail after every note. I haven't had that happen in many months (I'm OS 4.5.3 currently)

I find it's good practice to always reboot before doing a session with the Ti (over USB, that is). The Ti can be quite finicky and I like to keep it happy.

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Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 12:42pm

Yeah but it's unexpected behaviour right? Don't know whether a lot of people have this, but it seems like a bug that Access needs to fix. The bad thing is that it's hard te reproduce, so hard to debug.

dantyrant > you're on Win7 as well?

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Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 9:09pm

It does sound like some fader went all the way up... maybe some control surface or something did just that?

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Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 10:18pm

sp33s: I'm working with OS X on a Mac Pro.

It's clearly some kind of bug, but I've found it to be highly intermittent and it only really pops up after, for example, I leave my studio running for 12 hrs and come back. Which is to say, it's easy(for me) to work around this bug(but, again, this hasn't happened in a while)

The USB sync bug is far more pernicious, IMO. It sucks trying to load up the Ti in the middle of a session and finding out you have to reboot.
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