Backup and selectively restore sound banks ?

Hi all,

I have recently purchased my second virus - a Darkstar.

It has some lovely sound banks in there so I've backed it up up using VCC.

However - I'd now like to be able to restore it to factory and then selectively add those banks to where I want them as many of the originals have been overwritten. It would also be cool to write them to my other TI2 61.

Restoring to factory shouldn't be an issue but I don't see a way to be able to efficiently browse what's in the backup and then restore to where I want.

I've searched the forum and people are saying do it through your DAW.

My DAW is an MPC live - not gonna happen as it doesn't run any kind of plug in.

I've also heard people mentioning AURA and doing SYSDUMPS.

Please forgive me - I'm not familiar with either.

I don't mind buying software if required but I could do with somebody telling me how I can achieve this without needing to fire up Cubase 8 (which I have) as I'm not really familiar with this either - unless somebody can walk me through it.

I appreciate it's a big ask but I'd have thought this would be a simple GUI driven affair from within VCC. I just want to seem my patches in the backup and be able to drop then onto the virus where I want them.

All help appreciated.

Cheers.

Rob.

Thank you for you prompt assistance.

I'm not sure what you mean by "only for you the AU" - I know AU is Audio unit which I understood to be a bit like a VST file ?

Is Aura a stand alone program that I can use on my MAC to be able to control these things ?

Obviously I don't want to throw money at something and then find it won't do the job !

Thanks again.

Rob.

OK - I have AURA.

I believe I have it connecting but I am still in Demo mode.

Do I need to purchase the full version before I can backup the sounds from my virus ?

I could use some help here - not sure whether we can Private Message somehow to prevent making this all public ?

Thanks for your help so far.

Rob.

Hi again - I guess it's Oli with a new username ?

How are you ?

OK - What I'm after here is the EASIEST long term solution to the problem.

Money isn't the issue - I'll pay for an easy life !!!

My Mac is running Mojave (10.14.6) - unlikely to ever be updated again as its a 5.1 "Cheese grater".

The task is quite simple...or so I thought!

1) Backup existing patches which I've inherited with my newly acquired darkstar.

2) Restore to factory defaults (can be done easily with VCC) - in fact I already did it then reverted so I'm back to how I got it now.

3) Copy backed up patches to where I want them as previous owner has overwritten the originals (I'd like to set it up how I want it - not how they wanted it).

Really appreciate it if you could just tell me the easiest way.

If that's Aura then I'm happy with that. When I tried to "Sync data from HW" it seemed to populate the 16 parts in the software down the left hand side with a load of patches that I don't even appear to have in the virus so I'm confused from the off really.

I've had a look at the manual but it's not clear. There are even 2 x "Sync data from HW" buttons on there, one of which appears to do nothing very quickly.

Quite a trauma for something that I'd have thought would be simple drag & drop !

**OK - I've figured that I can get the banks from my DarkStar into Aura but can't save (demo limitation). It seems that this may be the way forward. With this software would I be able to (once I've backed up all the wanted banks) reload the individual patches to where I want them and then write back to the DS ?**

Thanks in anticipation.

Rob.

Well Oli, you've got me there - not something I've done...and have to admit I'm confused (it's easily done) which is exactly why I've shyed away from Cubase and using VSTs. I just want to record my virus - why is this so difficult ????

You've totally lost me now.

If it's so simple please explain...

What is "the original VC plugin within a VST/AU host to the Aura software" - what does that even mean ?

VST = as far as I'm aware an instrument plugin - A "virtual instrument"

The way that I'm using my MPC is simply MULTI mode on the virus with different midi channels triggering the different parts.

Are you suggesting using the Virus as a VST within MPC live to do this ?

No idea how you set that up.

Please help - stressed with all this technology and terminology - you're way ahead of me buddy.

Thanks Oli.

As I've said before - I'm a very creative guy and a grade 8 Keyboard player but the technology really p1$$es me off.

Give me an Atari ST with good old fashioned Cubase and I'm away.

Things have got so difficult and I'm really struggling to adjust to how all this stuff works.

Appreciate your help. Sorry I'm a pain but once I get it, I'll have it for life.

Hey Oli,

Virus is currently connected to computer over USB.

I installed all the virus software that I believe was available from the main website - as I understand it VCC also includes the VST plugin?

The virus is at 5.1.17.0 as is the version of VCC.

HI Oli - appreciate you're busy but any further guidance on this ?

Happy to fire up Cubase if it's going to make life easier - I have it running now.

I have also fixed the issue that my TI2 couldn't connect to my mac !

Cheers Oli - going back to the original problem at hand...

Now that I have Cubase and can finally connect my Virus' - How do I use the plugin to manage the sound banks ?

Incidentally - do you get paid for the support that you give as you're always the guy and I appreciate I'm leaning on you a LOT.

How does one learn these things.

I know what I want to do but how to do it seems to be a major challenge.

So frustrating as a grade 8 musician to not be able to spend any time recording ideas just because the tech is so hard to understand.

Hope you understand my frustration!

Cheers.

Rob.