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Loading Virus Banks?

How do you guys load banks onto your virus?

My friend installed my virus today, and was told to import the midi of the 'bank' and use it as a normal virus midi track.. but it doesnt seem to load the new sounds..

My 'memory protect' is off and in 'MIDI DUMP TX' I have chosen single bank B... and when I press store.. it says 'dumping' but nothing happens.....?

Weird, when I had my Virus, I just opened the MIDI file with Windows Media Player and it would start loading immediately.

Windows Media Player???

What does that have to do with anything?

go to the access-music site, there should be a special edition available of sounddiver, which lets you communicate with the virus and extensively edit the properties of your virus on the pc! A very nify program!

I ain't typing it all again.... read my posts in this thread:

http://trance.nu/v3/forums/viewtopi...der=asc&start=0

Good luck, post back here if problems.

Hey rusty thanks for that..

Well I downloaded the sounddiver bundle with the link you provided... the only problem is that it doesnt detect a 'midi connection'... I can play the virus in sounddiver with my midi controller and I can hear the sound... but for some reason all my 'c,d,e,f,g,h' banks are 'dimmed out' and not accessible?

What could be the cause of this?.. my cable is going from sound card 'out' to virus 'in'.

thank you


sot

you mean dimmed out in sound diver? If so you have to highlight the banks and request them.

no in the 'singles' tab where all the banks are listed.. they are all dimmed out.

and requesting is the problem..... once I request it gives me the midi connection error...even thuogh my midi controller works in the program.

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance Hey rusty thanks for that..

No probs, I try to help where I can...

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance What could be the cause of this?.. my cable is going from sound card 'out' to virus 'in'.

And you do of course have another midi cable going from: "Virus Out" to "Soundcard In".... yes?

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance Well I downloaded the sounddiver bundle with the link you provided... the only problem is that it doesnt detect a 'midi connection'... I can play the virus in sounddiver with my midi controller and I can hear the sound... but for some reason all my 'c,d,e,f,g,h' banks are 'dimmed out' and not accessible?

First, let's ensure that you have your Virus set up correctly.

a) Soundcard Midi Out --> Virus Midi In
Virus Midi Out --> Soundcard Midi In

I'm presuming that in Cubase (Or your sequencer) that you can both play midi notes via the piano roll; and also can record any knob changes (movements) as well? So we are sure that you have your Midi In/Out all set up correctly, no?

b) Have you setup your connections in SoundDiver correctly?

Here's what mine looks like:



I think; there is a setting in SoundDiver for "Send Midi Thru" so even if you are not connected 100%; it may internally route the notes....

Ok, a few random thoughts....

1) Do you HAVE banks C-H ??? Because you need to use the "1024.Mid" file to replace the demo song with new Rom banks C-H (daft I know, just checking)

2) You sure you are running the right SoundDiver version? Your Virus should be OS6.5 You can see this on power up, it will show on the Virus's screen.

If you are in SoundDiver, try double-clicking on Patch A000 to open up the editor, look over at the arp menu (should be middle top or so) and see how many "Arp Patterns" there are. "SoundDiver Virus OEM 6.5" should display 64 patterns (If it is only 40, could be a very good chance that you running an older version of SoundDiver)

(I don't think SoundDiver shows the version on the splash/into screen (can't remember) or you should be able to go: "Menu -> Help -> About")

TBH, I have never seen this before on mine.

You can highlight "Bank A" so it selects all of the singles from A000 to A127? and then do "Ctrl-R" for Request, this should transfer all the settings from the Virus to SoundDiver.... but yet you can't do this for Banks C to H?

Some further reading, been helping out another guy on trance.nu who has been having similiar problems...

http://trance.nu/v3/forums/viewtopi...1106&highlight=

Let us know how you get on....

I only have '1' midi cable hooked up to my VIRUS B... its from the soundcard OUT to VIRUS IN.

My Virus B OS is 4.9


are these factors?

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance I only have '1' midi cable hooked up to my VIRUS B... its from the soundcard OUT to VIRUS IN.

Well, for starters you are going to need another MIDI cable.

At the moment you can send data TO the Virus... but how do you think you are going to send data from the Virus to your computer/SoundDiver ?

A midi cable is like a one way street....

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance My Virus B OS is 4.9

My bad, I assumed you had a "C"... have a look on the Acces website for a mayching version of SoundDiver

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance are these factors?

Yes.

Get another MIDI cable and bump this thread then.

What you should need to do is import the midi file into Cubase (or your sequencer) and assign that channel to go to your "Soundcard Out Ch1"

Set the tempo to 60bpm, then you just need to hit play and sit back and let it do it's thing. The Virus should now say "Receiving Data" or something.

Just be patient and it will load in the new bank.

Gotcha, ill give this a go later on...

But one question, if I just want to dump new banks onto my virus all I need is 1 midi cable no?.. whats the point of having information from the virus sent to the computer?

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance But one question, if I just want to dump new banks onto my virus all I need is 1 midi cable no?..

You should be able to get away with one midi cable, yes. (See above post about putting it in Cubase (or your sequencer))

But you just need to have it from "Soundcard Out" --> "Virus In"

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Originally posted by Sound O fTrance whats the point of having information from the virus sent to the computer?

If you have 2x Midi cables going:

"Soundcard Out" --> "Virus In"
"Virus Out" --> "Soundcard In"

This will allow you to:

a) Record knob movements in real time from your Virus into your sequencer; so you could set up a track in Cubase, and tweak the filter cutoff and record exactly what you do. (Just an example, you could also record arp patterns, patch changes etc etc)

b) Allow you to dump the sounds on your Virus onto the computer.

c) Allow you to use SoundDiver to graphically edit patches on the computer and transfer the settings back and forth in realtime.

For starters...

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