Access Virus Editor Chapter 2 – Getting Started

Configure Virus A, B, C, Rack and Rack XL series

After Virus is powered up, enter Global settings and apply following settings.

Configure Virus TI and TI Snow series

After Virus is powered up, enter System settings and apply following settings.

PREPARE YOUR DAW FOR THE PLUG-IN

Check the configuration guide for your system below. Start from the “Setting MIDI Devices” guide and then check your DAW guide.

Insert the plug-in into your project

First Run / Plug-in Scan

After the configuration guide of Setting MIDI Devices and the configuration guide for your DAW are done, you can safely open your DAW and start the plug-in scanning process.

If the plug-in scan fails, please try to validate it again. If the plug-in won’t validate, send the error log for our inspection – details given at Downloads section above.

Once your DAW is ready, insert our Editor plug-in to instrument track and read next part about registration if you purchased the full license from our store. If not, you can head down to “Make the connection, again” part.

REGISTER OUR EDITOR WITH LICENSE

If you made the decision to purchase the license for our Editor, you are the best! Just wanted to thank YOU.

License owners can enjoy the full advantages of the Editor, like:

• Use all available Parts.
• Plug-in parameters can be automated directly from your DAW.
• Librarian is fully functional and allows full editing possibilities.
• You can save your UI Data (full arrangement) to HDD.
• You can save your MIDI CC maps to HDD.
• Total Recall: Once you open your project after your last session, all the data used in your previous session will be automatically sent to your synthesizer.
• Get tech support and updates with lifetime license or while subscription is active!

If you purchased Editor license from our store, download the license and the full installer from
https://auraplugins.com/downloads/access-virus-editor/ after you login.

Unzip the full installer and run it from your computer. If installer fails, try again as follows:
Right click the installer and choose “open”. You can safely ignore all warnings.

Manually placing the license file

If you have plug-in inserted to your project, now it is time to delete the track / plug-in instance from your DAW.

Rename license.key as per instructed above manually and copy it to the Editor data folder (see location mentioned earlier). If all is good, you can now re-insert your plug-in to your DAW.

Virus Editor User Manual – License file location in macOS

Register product from User Interface

Method #1

Click the top left corner of the user interface where the Editor says, “RELOAD LICENSE [1]”. New window will open to prompt for license [2]. Locate the license [3] and hit OK to register. See image below.

Virus Editor User Manual – Register method #1

Method #2

Once you’ve installed the FULL version and you have your Editor user interface opened, enter Patch Librarian [1], click Bank Edit [2] and choose Register Editor… [3]. A file prompt dialog will pop up just like in the image above.

Virus Editor User Manual – Register method #2

After you have chosen the license file, remove the plug-in instance from your DAW and insert it again. Editor display should now indicate “REGISTERED” in the top left corner.

FILTER INCOMING MIDI DATA FROM PHYSICAL PORT

In order to prevent duplicate MIDI data flow passing to our plug-in, take a good look at your DAW user guide how to filter or block MIDI messages from the hardware.

Here is an example: I am using Virus C and our Virus Editor plug-in in my project. If I move a Filter Cutoff knob from the synthesizer, it will send MIDI message out to physical MIDI device. Now, from there, your DAW will process this message and pass it into your record / monitor enabled track if it is not blocked / filtered. We don’t need this data to pass thru twice since we are going to open the physical ports in the plug-in user interface. I hope that made sense.

If in the other hand, you are using Virus KC, you might want to pass the note data thru to your DAW in order to play other virtual instruments.

In such a scenario, allow only note data to pass through from the input port and open Advanced MIDI Settings [1] window and filter out note processing [2] from the hardware port.

Virus Editor User Manual – Advanced MIDI Settings

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