Hello everyone!
First off, I've been discussing this with technical support--I'm just wondering if anyone else is experiencing any of these issues.
I bought a new TI2 Polar a few months ago. Since I bought it, I have had some major issues with crashing and glitching and such. I've tried installing every OS from 3.0 to the most recent public beta, but it seems to be unusable regardless. I also have owned the Snow until recently and never have had any issues with it.
When playing in single mode (not connected to the computer via USB), every 2-5 minutes the Polar either:
1) Crashes and will not receive any more keyboard input, though the display reacts to knobs being turned. Usually it begins emitting a very high pitched and loud noise tone until sleeping the Virus or unplugging it. Upon waking the Polar again, normal functionality returns.
2) Sounds are somewhat garbled or play out of only side's channel (both headphones and out 1). This sounds almost like a serious bitcrushed effect or distortion of some kind. This is fixed when the Polar is slept and woken again.
When playing in "TI mode" with Logic 8, after a minute or so:
1) The Polar stops responding to MIDI input and either sustains a note or begins emitting a loud high-pitched noise sound. Functionality returns after sleeping and waking. The Virus Control plug-in does not detect that the Polar has been disconnected.
2) The Virus suddenly emits a loud burst of noise and sort of reboots.
3) Playing the Polar's keyboard results in very unstable MIDI--jerky, delayed, "stuck notes," etc.
Does anyone else have any of these problems with a TI2--are they OS bugs or could it be a problem with my hardware (I sure hope not?) I'd really love to be able to use this without issue as I know from experience that the Virus is an AWESOME piece of hardware! Right now, it's pretty much completely unusable.
Thanks for any suggestions or thoughts!