Beiträge von Coollin

Im running my Virus TI desktop in multi mode via ableton, without utilizing VC or abletons external instrument. But I do have a midi keyboard routed via ableton into my virus so i can write midi sequences of my patches. I pretty quickly ran into cpu issues and started having goofy stuff go on, so i bounced my midi sequences to audio tracks and deactivated the midi tracks, so they shouldnt be sending info to the virus anymore. I want to keep those midi tracks around, in case i want to go back and edit them or the associated patch, so will simply bouncing to audio and deactivating that track save on my viruses cpu?

in other words, if a patch in multi mode is not receiving midi information, does it still consume cpu?

Thank you.

My next guess would be either an LFO or Filter envelope, but it seems that wouldnt be the case if youve experienced it in bare bones patches. Are you always using square waves when it happens? How about some other form of pitch modulation such as transposition? It could very well be a bug, the virus has a handful, and Iv encountered a few instances of strange and seemingly random things happening to my sounds. But I always wanna give the virus the benefit of the doubt and hope I can learn something about synthesis while investigating.

I could be wrong, But is the issue your facing just distortion? FM means that youre essentially adding an audible oscillator with the intention of having said oscillator modulate the pitch of your preexisting oscillator(s). Just using one wave to move another wave. When this happens its easy to interfere with things like reverbs and delays, as those often carry frequency dependent information, and thus disrupting (modulating) the frequencies those are receiving info from will often create distortion of sorts. particularly when the modulation adds amplitude, as is often the case with FM.

With that line of thinking I think it would make sense that FM would mess with different notes in different ways, depending on the way the frequency of the modulated is affected by the frequency of the modulator, and how the FX that source their frequency dependent information from the modulated, are affected by the modulator. I dont have a whole lot of FM experience, but for me its always been a powerful beast that requires a very intentional placement to be properly tamed.

I just got a Virus TI Desktop and hated the issues and limitations I was running into while using Virus Control in Ableton. So I ran my Virus as an External Instrument from Ableton, and utilized the analog outs. So now my Virus is plugged in via USB only so that is can receive MIDI data from a keyboard I have running through Ableton, but its audio it being sent to an interface, and then into my monitors. I do really enjoy using the Virus Control to store patches and tweak stuff and all that. If I downloaded one of those standalone vst host things would I be able to use the vst strictly for on screen control of my virus, while still having the audio routed up through analog, so I dont encounter any of the issues that come from sending the viruses audio over usb. In other words, would it allow my virus to continue to only receive data over usb, and not have to send its audio via usb, thus preserving its overall integrity, while still getting the benefits of VC?

This is my first time setting up the signal flow for, well, anything. so I hope that all made sense.

Thank you for your time