Does this happen on all patches or just certain ones? Certain parameters in patches are real polyphony eaters. The "patch complexity meter" on the synth screen will give an indication of this. Check the manual for info about conserving polyphony. However, not sure about the "click" you mention.
Cheers! 
Check out the threads Pushing polyphony!, TI Desktop losing voices and Tips for getting more voices out of your Virus Ti (or Ti2).
Contains a bunch of information related to how the Virus handles polyphony and sound complexity. There's also a chapter about that topic in the manual. While it may sound boring at first, it's quite interesting read when confronted with note stealing.
On the Virus TI, you don't have real "voices" but a limited amount of DSP calculation power. Therefore, in my experience, the Virus may lose voices, but it also can happen that the sound is calculated less accurately.
It seems to depend on how predictable the required calculation power for a sound is and how much has to be calculated at exactly the same time (e.g. sequenced note events). Thus modulation from envelopes may have an impact on calculation complexity. And FM seems to be impacted by that pretty prominently. Check out my post here Polyphony, DSP
What I found very helpful is to change all patches, which are used to play single note lines (basses, leads) to monophonic.
However, just to make sure your Virus works properly:
- What exact model do you have (Desktop TI1 or TI2)?
- What mode is your Virus in (Single, Multi, Seq)?
- If you are experienceing this with factory preset, please post the preset name and bank location
- If it is a sound you made, maybe you could uploaded it here in an empty bank so we could check it out
- Maybe you could upload an audio example of the problem to soundcloud
Given this information, forum members could check out whether they experience the same behavior.
Ok. Found the patch. DX-File HS (ROM C 027 or G 041). On my TI2 it does distort a bit when playing chords with many notes (e.g. 6-7) with high velocity and especially with increased release time. It seems that the gain of the Ring Modulation plus FM plus bass EQ sends it into clipping. However, it does not steal any notes. Also, the CPU load indicator is only two to three bars, so it's quite easy on the CPU.
In that case, I'd contact Access support.
Ok. Found the patch. DX-File HS (ROM C 27 or G 27).
On my TI2 and the "official" patch bank PDF, DX-File HS is ROM G 41. Why do we have different locations??
Thanks!
hey,
i had similar events with other presets and found a solution for me.
1.) as oliAtBass wrote in comment #7 - change to monophonic if there is no need for poly
2.) avoid to long tails/release or overlapping notes (for example bass and percusions...)
3.) no use of the virus ti reverb (uses much cpu power)
4.) i made an "-Init-" patch that is very minimal (all dials, routings, etc. are 0 or empty) to start from that state
5.) keep your presets as clean as possible (avoid unnecessary routings and settings)
6.) limit the number of tracks/slots you use simultaneously (in my case i use max. 4)
