David Helpling wrote:Are you sure? I just installed it and there is still a crazy latency issue when running it as "TI" (USB for MIDI and Audio)...have you tried playing fast sounds?
Not quite sure what you mean by “USB for MIDI and Audio” – are you using the TI as an audio interface? If so, then I have no experience of this; I have a separate audio interface plugged into a different USB port.
There are latency issues that only seem to affect a small number of hosts, and the Live button is there to help (I’m sure you know all this anyway!). To quote the manual:
The Live Mode button lowers Virus Control’s latency in order to ease recording live events in hosts such as Ableton Live, FL Studio and Sonar, as well as Digital Performer (which is not officially supported).
So when I play with the Live button enabled, there is no latency. However if I am playing back a previously recorded TI track and trying to play along with or record another TI instrument then there are problems.
If the Live button was ON before record/playback then there is NO latency but the previously recorded TI track will play OUT of time with the rest of your sequence.
If the Live button was OFF before record/playback then there IS latency but the previously recorded TI track will play IN time with the rest of your sequence.
So definitely not perfect … and we have to keep toggling the Live button on and off.
There is something odd about the way DP handles AU instruments – there are a lots of threads about DP’s strange behaviour with various other VIs. I am very disappointed about this. One of the big things about DP6 was the AU handling rewrite and promise of full AU compatibility – this clearly has not happened.
I don’t need to say that I tried the same test in Logic and all just worked perfectly. No need for using the live button at all.
But as DP users, I guess we must get used to this (or should already be used to it) – we are in a small minority (whether we like it or not) and this is just another example of a software/hardware vendor not wanting to spend time/money on a minority market. Point is that Ti DOES work properly with Cubase, Logic and PT – so if DP’s audio engine handled AU properly then it would work.
It is precisely these issues that stop me completely forgetting about Logic. I hate the fact that DP is not always entirely compatible with other software / hardware. After all, DP is not even officially supported by Access
Anyway, that’s hopefully a better answer than my previous!
