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Zitat von DovGoldman

I’m not making any excuses for Mr. Kemper, but…

Not many companies support a product for this long. There are a few exceptions, like RME (also a German music technology company), but most wouldn’t keep updating a 14-year old platform with new drivers.

Fortunately for us, other developers have released products like Patchbase, Aura’s Hardware Editor and Touch for Virus. And, some of us don’t really care if TI works. We sequence with hardware like Squarp Hapax.

The Virus is dead. Long live VIRUS!

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Continuing to SELL it with the same marketing that's no longer true is supposed to be illegal, though...

Zitat von MagicJukebox

Just got word from a reseller that the Access Virus TI has been officially discontinued. It looks like we won't be getting the update we've been waiting for, which is a real disappointment. I'm not quite sure why Access is being less than transparent about this—maybe they're trying to move the remaining stock sell

Not remotely surprised.

EDIT: I've basically assumed that my Virus TI is just a piece of NON-Totally-Integrated hardware for years now. I can always connect it to an older Mac, if I want that plugin for editing, until they die too... I hate the tech industry, and the music tech segment isn't far behind in terms of utterly disgraceful behavior. I refuse to buy hardware anymore if it requires drivers or a computer to do anything at all. I've been screwed too many times to believe any "integration" or "upgrade path" nonsense.

When I looked up these terms in the MIDI controller realm online, there's seemingly two terms for the same thing: velocity and key pressure. Aftertouch is another thing entirely. So... I'm still not sure what's being discussed here.

Zitat von Sacguy71

To be honest, most synth companies have poor support especially Roland and Korg so Access Kemper is not alone in bad customer service and lack of support. But at least Roland keeps their hardware updated with new software OS versions on Mac and PC Windows.

All they want to do is sell a new product to you every year/quarter/etc. Existing products will never be maintained beyond a year or two. This is a fundamentally wasteful and abusive trait of laissez-faire capitalism.

Several of these companies could probably FUND the development of new drivers via the existing users paying a minor/moderate fee, but that doesn't get the big dollars they want on the BUSINESS GROWTH end of their companies' public face. So it's always make the next thing and sell that, hopefully to people who aren't so burned on prior abandoned products... unless there's an infinite source of new customers to pick from...

So key pressure here is the term for velocity?

Zitat von Roderick5

Should the Virus TI2 keyboard still be able to function as a midi controller on Ventura? I'm trying to use it on a MacBook Pro but it doesn't even show up in Audio Midi Setup and it does not trigger any sound in Logic Pro. I have it connected via USB to USB-c adapter. Is there a driver to install or something? I thought usb/midi was just plug and play.

I don't know the answer, but the language of the question is this: "Is the Virus TI USB Class Compliant for MIDI?" It sounds like the answer is no, but it hasn't come up for me before (it will, very soon). Luckily, you can get a very inexpensive class compliant USB-MIID interface that you can connect between the Virus TI's MIDI ports and your computer's USB ports. No drivers needed ("class compliance" means the device complies with generic drivers for this function in the OS). Example: Edirol/Roland UM-1. It's compact enough that it looks like a cable adapter.

I'd pay, if it's not much more than $50. Thing is, they're still selling and marketing this thing as a Total Integration with desktop computers, so they really should be doing this on their own dime.

Zitat von cansukandemir

Seeing the discussions going on here in the last 2 years, am I reading correctly that VCC is STILL not compatible with Monterey?

Thanks!

Correct.

Zitat von mobilohm

Thanks, I was hoping it was old news I read... I will look for that plugin...

How do you update then?

You don't. The message from Apple's OS implies that there is an update, but Access has not released one to users (though the USB chipset driver was delivered to them by the company that makes that chipset driver).

Cost cutting tactic?

I exchanged a couple emails with the driver company and posted about it here: Is anyone from Access ever going to chime in on the MaxOS issue??

I wrote to the driver developer company with the following:

Zitat

"When will Access Virus TI get Mac OS Catalina, Mac OS 11+ and Apple Silicon support?

The developers at Access Music seemingly vanished from the web in late 2019, after stating that they’re waiting for your company to update the USB drivers for Mac OS Catalina and beyond. So, what’s up with that?"

Someone there replied to my inquiry with:

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"Well, they got the Catalina update shortly after… ;-)"

I asked:

Zitat

"why haven't Access released it to users?"

and he replied:

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"The driver is only a small part of the TI software."

🤷🏽‍♂️

Still nothing from Access, but the third-party success is making them look even worse… I’m eager to try out the MI solution when I get to a new machine. I’ve been stuck on an old iMac for a long time now and it’s painful to be stuck in old software, even as I lament the loss of software and drivers for hardware in abandoned products like so many that I own…

Why has nothing changed here in almost three years?

I see Access is still MIA...

There are Change Log links on Virus TI system version downloads, but they all just go to the download package, not a change log. Also, the current Mac OS X Beta doesn't even have a change log listed (correctly or not). It would be nice to know what's in each of these versions, especially the betas.

nope. didn't work for me. if i don't plug in the device, it just sits there and waits for me to click ok. if i click ok, it rolls back just like before.

Same as the 32-bit thread of similar title, but i thought i should make a thread indicating same happens on 64-bit, even though some people in the other thread specified 64-bit, too.

it rolls back near completion and doesn't install drivers. failure.

v33400 x64

Annoyed. is there going to be an update?