About a week ago they gave USB audio via a free update for the Kemper Profiler (beside Liquid Profiling).
Just saying.
Ploytec has finally released an update for their drivers. This is why.
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I just messaged him will see if he actually responds lol
Any response?
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Do we need Ploytec to get involved though? We can already stream USB audio from the Virus as-is, *if* you use something like the Aura plug-in to enable USB output on the unit. I might be wrong, but it looks like USB audio streaming is already there, built into MacOS...!?
Not with the Virus, it was a specialised driver and API that handled MIDI and audio streaming to the unit. The virus was never class compliant
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Class compatible MIDI and Audio. Like the Elektron boxes working with Overbridge.
I highly doubt Access will go that route.......
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Which would be very welcome as one part of a future solution.
However, the Motorola/Freescale DSPs used in the TIs are out of production for several years now, and available stock is running out. Perhaps slower than expected by Access Music — and therefore support for currently still available products must be sustained beyond planned EOL.
An updated, more powerful, fully backward compatible TI3 based on current technology and FPGA processors would be a proper platform to carry us over the next 20-30 years or beyond.
Which is why I firmly believe a class compatible USB over MIDI driver is essential for this. I advocated for it in the past and I will advocate for it in the future.
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Heard some interesting news from the DSP Emulator group. Ploytec has made a U-turn and is developing a USB audio driver for the latest version of MacOS which I'm going to assume will cover Apple Silicon(M1/M2) compatibility.
Maybe this means an update TI plugin will finally be done.
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I think that the reason why nothing is done to support new technology from Access Kemper Music and I blame Kemper and would tell him that to his face too is the following:
a. Kemper does not give a fuck about Virus owners
b. Kemper is short of technical resources to update drivers and software for Virus hardware
c. Kemper is making more money on the stupid lame Kemper amp hardware.
d. Access Music is low on cash and resources to invest in software updates and future hardware design
Waldorf and other companies went broke and pulled the same horse shit on synth owners in the past before venture capital bought them and put cash and resources to new software and hardware updates. I like my Virus TI2 that I bought last year and will use mostly as stand alone hardware to record the audio without the plugin in spite of the crude interface. It is still better than my Moog Sub 37 that has less features and cruder user interface. Hell for fucks sake the Kemper Access Music people do not even support this forum as it has been invaded by spammers posting sports better horse shit all over it.
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Access/Kemper posted that they are looking for a DSP developer again. This company has become a bad joke at this point......
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You are aware that you can still buy a new (!) Mac Mini 2018 with Intel processor and install macOS 10.14. It’s a bit of a hassle to do the downgrade but it is possible and works wonderfully.
Well aware, I shouldn't have to plan an entire system around one device however. Access needs to get of their f***king asses and sort this out or declare it incompatible/EOL so I can decide whether or not to keep these things around.
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Lame of Access to be silent but “useless brick”?
In the context of the TI features, it is a useless brick if you your system is incompatible. My last compatible system died on me a month ago and now both of my TIs are not getting used.
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It is,
If you still have Virus Control Center, you can copy the soundseet midi file to anyone of your existing RAM or ROM slots.
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Access really need to get off their asses and fix this. Especially in light of this new announcement from Steinberg: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-2-discontinued/761383/2
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After waiting 2 1/2 years I'm pretty sure there will be no more updates from Access side,... better sell your Virus and switch to THAT
Yeah, that's not a solution.
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My Mojave Mac just kicked the bucket. I'm not going to replace a 6 year old machine with another 6 year old machine and I'm going to have to get an M1 Mac in the near future.
I am seriously disgusted with Access at this point.
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I think it's atrocious the way they have gone completely silent on their user base. They either don't give a damn or they are completely unprofessional.
They are still selling the synths and still shipping new stock. https://www.andertons.co.uk/ke…/access-virus-ti2-desktopI've been actively harassing them on social media for months and even filed a complaint with the local consumer protection agency in NL.
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Since Kemper haven't opened their mouths in almost 4 years now, I have a feeling that we will get one more update before the TI goes full EOL.
So this is my formal feature request for any pending update:
1. Make the TI MIDI over USB class complaint. A necessity going forward.
2. Lose the USB Audio portion. Let's face it, with Ploytec out of the game I don't think this feature will be supported moving forward.
3. Overhaul the VST GUI for modern displays.
4. Create a new librarian for loading banks and Sysex files.
Essentially, no new features. Just get it fully functional so we can use our synths again.
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Mojave is end of life as of November of last year... so now you have the choice of security updates or a working Virus
If you're in a country that has consumer protection laws, please file a claim/lawsuit. The fact that they're still marketing this feature and selling new units that are broken out of the box is unreal
This is the only hope I have at this point to get their attention
I've already done so.
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Now that they’ve updated their website after years of it being broken, an official response regarding an update would be nice.
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That’s all irrelevant. The MIDI protocol is slow, regardless of type of sequencer or settings.
The German Wiki page for MIDI explains it nicely like this:
The transmission speed is 31250 bits/s (exactly 32 μs per bit). For each byte, consisting of 8 bits, there is a start bit and one stop bit [therefore a transmitted byte is 10 bits, and takes 320 μs to transfer], so that the complete transmission of a data set consisting of 30 bits [3 bytes] takes 960 μs.
That’s almost 1000 μs, or 1 ms.
If there are 8 notes, or 2 notes and 6 other events (like controllers, after touch, pitch bend, time clock) in between, the outer events (notes) are 8 ms apart. Which can already be heard as a flam, depending on the sound.
Now multiply this with 16 Channels at the same time sharing this bandwidth, and you have a rather sloppy synth orchestra.
You can do a nice simple experiment to prove the limitation of the MIDI bandwidth easily. OTTOMH:
- Enable a MTC source to send MTC on the MIDI cable from a sequencer to a synth (any model)
- send an 16th note arpeggio from a sequencer to the synth over the same cable
- slowly increase the tempo of the MTC source to 300 and above
You‘ll hear how the synth will seemingly start to play out of time because the MIDI stream is flooded with MTC events and the notes cannot be sent at the correct time anymore. You can do the same with any other event type, you just have to find a way to generate them with fast cadence.
BTW, MIDI over USB is much faster.
All of this, yet I still see some idiots protesting that DIN is the superior connection.
