Do you have another power supply you can run the Virus with? Anything ranging from 9 to 12V will work as long as it can provide 1A of current. 9V actually would be better because there's a voltage regulator inside the Virus that becomes very hot when supplied with 12V.
I tied with an elektron octatrack power supply and still same issue. Going to look for a 9v an test it. Thanks for the support
... working on quite a modest set up - a 2012 Mac mini (albeit with 16gb ram) running Logic, with a Maschine micro mk2 and an Ultranova already hogging the USB ports, so analogue audio out from the Virus would then have to run through an audio capture card -or- through the Ultranova ( which has that function/ability) Actually, could do that ... but apart from the worry about setting it up, don’t fancy the D/A > A/D signal loss by doing so. I know it’s going to be pretty tight finding an isolated USB port as it is but hopefully (fingers crossed!) should get it all running.
For anyone’s reference - got a great repair estimate when the Snow went in to SynthesizerServiceDepartment - a price of c.150 Euros + shipping + 19% VAT for replacing the main board.
Still waiting however to see if the main board can be sourced from Access ... fingers crossed!
+ @EG - yes, that sort of thing!
Hi,
How did the repair went? Did they had any spare parts for the snow?
Can you give more details? Does it freeze immediately when starting up? Or randomly when you're playing something?
It last a few seconds after playing then it freezes
Hey, finally got an update! I managed to replace the DSP IC and it fixed the problem. The virus snow is now fully working without any crashes!
if anyone needs it the part no. is
DSPB56367AG150and it’s available on ebay in the UK
Thanks at least it seems there is a solution. Do you have any tips for the soldering rework tools/techniques you used?
Regards from Barcelona
Just bought a used Ti snow and it was working perfectly but then i did a factory reset and it freezes,
a loud noise and no more led activity. Are there any solutions beside replacing the DSP chip?
Just bought a used Ti snow and it was working perfectly but then i did a factory reset and it freezes,
a loud noise and no more led activity. Are there any solutions beside replacing the DSP chip?
