Virus TI and Ableton--> a few Qs!

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Posted by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-16-2009 01:36:

Virus TI and Ableton--> a few Qs!

Hi guys.

I am using Ableton Live 7, a Virus TI Snow, v.2.7.3 of the Virus Control software, and an Echo Audiofire4 interface. The Virus hardware unit is up-to-date (clean install of software on pc).

I have a few Qs about using the Virus TI Snow in Live. My understanding is that you can have up to four different sounds playing at once by having the 4 parts of the Snow routed to 4 different MIDI channels in Live. I've done this and I currently can get four different sounds playing at once. However:

1) How can I see the volume levels of EACH part that is being played? Right now I am able only to see the total volume of all four parts together;
2) How can I apply different effects to EACH part that is being played? Right now whatever effects I apply to the 'main' channel with the Virus Control on it get applied universally; if I try to drag and drop effects onto the other channels the sound coming from that channel stops playing;
3) I cannot seem to perform an undo action on the Snow. The manual says to right click and choose undo but no matter where I right click in the Virus Control that option isn't available. Is there a sequence of buttons on the Virus itself that I can push to undo the last option?

Thanks so much for any help!

*Also posted at KVRaudio.com

Posted by Zombie0729 on Feb-16-2009 01:39:

hi the virus control ships with videos for ableton, i suggest watching them.

Posted by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-16-2009 17:39:

I've watched the tutorial vids mate

Still need some help here.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Feb-16-2009 18:08:

im so glad i sold all my hardware

Posted by Sean Walsh on Feb-16-2009 18:42:

On my work computer so don't have ableton/virus here, but it's along these lines:

+ Go to the config tab of the virus control and make sure it's setup to use the 3 USB outs.
+ In Virus control, right-click on the little "R" (I think it's R, could be something else though (the bottom of the two buttons)) button that's located where the patch name is, and then select which output channel you want (USB 1, 2 or 3).
+ Have a new audio track in ableton take it's Input From that track.

All of this is in the tutorial video so give it another watch.

Posted by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-16-2009 22:40:

I figured it out; thanks for the help guys