Beiträge von Janeway

It's all OK now. Phew. I thought it might be fried.

Hi,

I have a Virus TI2 Polar

After using the Virus Control Centre software to change around my sound banks - I unplugged the USB cable and powered off my Virus and now it just has a blue screen when I powered it back on ???!!!

It's like the software in it won't load ?!

I've just forced it into OS update mode by holding the exit button on start up.

Virus Control Centre said there wasn't any operating system... NO TIOS

:0

Its updating now - says its writing OS banks - hopefully it works.

Scared !

Please help.

Hello,

I'm a new user of the TI2 Polar.

I'm having trouble getting my head around how to set up, save and load user and artist RAM and ROM banks, patches and multis.

I am on a Mac Book Pro and just using Garageband as the Virus Control plug in host. Not sure if this is part of my problem as its not a "supported" host.

I understand individual patches save as .mid files

But what about banks ?

And how do multis work in terms of saving and loading ? Do they use the .mid file extension as well ?

Zitat von oliAtBass

- Open Virus Control Center
- "Restore Factory Settings" under the menu "Advanced"

However, according to my experience this does not properly work for the Virus TI2 products and some additional steps are necessary. The background is described in this thread:
Virus Control Center "Restore Factory Settings" loads wrong ROM banks on TI2 Desktop and Polar

Therefore, still in Virus Control Center, do the following
- Create a backup of the synth
- Restore the backup you just made to the synth

Now all the factory ROM sounds are properly restored.

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THANKYOU SO MUCH OLIATBASS - you solved my problem.

As a new owner of a second hand TI2 - the sounds are awesome but I have to rant that there are some things that just make learning that much more damn difficult ! And have wasted a lot of my time.

Access Music referring to the TI2 as just TI

Naming the plug in "Virus Control" and the software program "Virus Control Center"

Not having a dedicated instruction manual for the TI2, but rather using the old TI instruction manual, which does not have any mention about the extra ROM banks

And the worst - using Virus Control Center to try to restore the Access VIrus TI2 to its original factory banks / programs - only to find that after the restore the actual synth has been backed up with TI1 banks / programs instead - AND the VCC and VC both incorrectly show TI2 banks / programs as being installed when they are not, as opposed to the TI1 banks / programs the actual synth is showing !

What a shite introduction on the software / library / instructional side of things. Fortunately I am not interested in the total integration side of things - I will only be recording audio.

Rant over. I feel better now.

Zitat von oliAtBass

- Open Virus Control Center
- "Restore Factory Settings" under the menu "Advanced"

However, according to my experience this does not properly work for the Virus TI2 products and some additional steps are necessary. The background is described in this thread:
Virus Control Center "Restore Factory Settings" loads wrong ROM banks on TI2 Desktop and Polar

Therefore, still in Virus Control Center, do the following
- Create a backup of the synth
- Restore the backup you just made to the synth

Now all the factory ROM sounds are properly restored.

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About to try your suggestion of backing up and restoring to see if that works. Fingers crossed.

Zitat von oliAtBass

I'm trying to fully restore a Virus Ti2 Desktop to factory settings, including the ROM banks. According to the manual addendum, the Virus Control Center (5.1.3.0) offers the option "Restore Factory Settings" under the menu "Advanced" for that purpose. Then VCC recognizes the hardware as Ti2 Desktop and starts the process "Restoring Factory Settings" just fine.

However, when it finished, the ROM banks contained not the sound sets for the Ti2 but for the Ti (Version 1). So it seems that VCC somehow confuses these two models.

How can I achieve a full and correct restore of a Ti2?

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About to try your suggestion of backing up and restoring to see if that works. Fingers crossed.

Zitat von Ruari

I've just noticed that when I'm using my TI2 standalone, all my ROM banks have now changed to the same ones found in the Virus TI Factory Backup option. When I'm using VC within Logic, all the ROM banks are the same as the ones in the Virus TI2 Factory Backup option.

Standalone ROM A1 is T I BC

VC plugin ROM A1 is 3-Dumm HS

Are the standalone & VC ROM banks not meant to be the same? I thought that was why it always takes the plugin a few minutes to start up when you first connect the Virus to a different computer, so VC can read the memory from the hardware.

If I change all the standalone ROM banks back to match the VC version, will this keep on changing back to the old TI version whenever I install a new update?

I'm using the latest OS 5.0.3.0

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I'm having the same problem. About to try backing up and restoring as has been suggested to see if that works.

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.

Hello,

I have just bought a second hand Access Virus TI2 Polar.

I would like to do a reset of the synth, including resetting all the factory patches.

How can achieve this ?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou

Jane