Just waiting for pay-day! Just noticed the sample list for the deluxe pack, good stuff!
Any chance of a New Order or Devo sound-bank?
EG
Just waiting for pay-day! Just noticed the sample list for the deluxe pack, good stuff!
Any chance of a New Order or Devo sound-bank?
EG
Now your talking!
EG
Didn't you guys hear about the new Virus release, with analog oscillators? It's called the Moog Sub 37 plugged into the Virus Inputs.
It certainly does work, I've been running those versions for a year. But I do remember having to contact Access Support to get some help. Had to install, remove and reinstall the Virus software a few times, with a full reboot in between. Don't recall having to mess with Windows, or any native drivers.
Cheers,
EG
I think we are more likely to get a season two of Firefly, than a new synth from Access...
EG
I got a similar error with my new Elektron Overhub, so will try the same trick and see if that helps!
cheers,
EG
Guess I shoulda gone for an interface that had SPDIF, eh... will have to upgrade!
EG
That depends. I couldn't program what they do in an entire year, so it's worth buying their patches for me!
EG
Yes, you can. There's a system config option to send Arp notes, you have to switch that on first. Then it will send all the Arp notes via the MIDI out. Apparently, it only works in Single mode, not Multi mode.
EG
Yes, exactly! Only the length of the notes is used, to gate the input, with the underlying tone coming from your external instrument.
EG
I did something similar with my bass and Chapman Stick, a few months back. If you have your DAW or an external sequencer driving an Arp patch on the Virus, and use the Dynamic input setting, it will gate the input signal, creating an effect like in the video. You just can't do it with the TI alone, well, unless you play a key and latch it, to keep the Arp running.
Here's a really dodgy video I did, to show the general approach. Relies on Ableton Live to play the rhythmic part of the Arp, but the primary carrier is coming from the Stick. You can hear some weird artefacts coming into the signal, as the vibrating string tone is not as clean as a synth waveform, but that adds some extra bite and harmonics.
Hope that helps a bit!
Cheers,
EG
Wow, nice setup! Makes my home studio look pretty average, I've only got a Virus TI, TI Snow, Novation Mininova, Korg Electribe ES-1 and an Emu Xtreme Lead. (And a dead Korg Wavestation A/D.) Damn, you had to have a V-Synth, didn't you! I've been lusting after one for a year, now! That's probably my next purchase, or just after a Moog Minitaur.
EG
Why can't you just play those specific sections, one at a time, writing into an armed audio track?
EG
No probs, glad you got it working! In order to get the best performance out of the Snow, you are better off using an external sound card, plus it helps to have the Snow in track 1 of your DAW. (Less pops and crackles, or arpeggios getting out of synch.)
What other hardware synths do you have?
Cheers,
EG
There's a few good YouTube videos on how to set it up, but you basically start with one "Parent" track for the Virus TI, routing its sound output to the Live Master track. Then you create extra MIDI tracks that have whatever MIDI keyboard as input, but output to the Virus TI track and each one of the channels you want to use. (Up to 16, in your case.) Each time you want to audition a track, click on the track record button in Live, open up Virus Control from the Virus TI track, then click on the right track button in VCC. Then use the Browser to choose patches, as normal. Hope that makes some sense!
Cheers,
EG
Mate, you aren't going to win any friends by getting shitty, everyone here is actually very helpful. Maybe you just caught people at the end of a busy week, simple as that.
Afraid I don't know anything about Sonar Artist, but I'm wondering whether the right track is armed to record, when you are trying to audition a patch, for a particular track. Have you setup a "main" track for the Snow and 1-4 additional MIDI tracks that send MIDI to each channel of the main Virus Snow track? Then you have up to 4 tracks you can arm, or set to record, which map to the 4 different channels inside Virus Control. if you don't arm the right track in Sonar and then click the right track number in VC, you may not hear anything, or you might hear the wrong track. Sorry if you already know all that, better to work through it all and get your feedback.
You also shouldn't need to save patches onto the Snow, in order to audition them, the Browser can play any patches straight off the file-system
Cheers,
EG
Very funny, John! What about sounds that can actually be done on the Virus?
EG
Ok, here's the theme song, but it's pretty short and fairly simple! I might finish work on the longer (full-length) song and post that up soon, as well.
EG
I'll post it up on SoundCloud, in the next few days.
EG
Oh, man, can't get the Overhub to work without getting "Not enough resources to support this device" errors, will have to do some research. Ok, I did get it to work once, after a very complicated boot-up procedure, but never after that time.
EG