First post - Hi all!
I just received my TI today and I can confirm that editing the ‘CachedVsts.xml’ as you suggest does not have any impact on the performance in sequence. It may make the response of the keyboard input more snappy, but it being so slight, I can’t be sure if my ears deceive me.
The delay in triggering is the major bug here, but there are one or two (potential) others.
Multiple outputs work, but are not being treated correctly. The TI plug-in only allows one instance at a time, but has multiple outputs (16). I created an instance and then an alias. I could then assign a different channel in ‘VST Instrument Properties’ to each alias and gain control over each channel as an independent instrument.
Incidentally; when I sequenced 2 patterns to use 2 outputs, with 2 different sounds, they were in sync with each other, but not with the other (non-virus) parts of the sequence, as per the original defect noted at the start of this thread. I’m not sure if knowing that the delay is consistent across all aliases is useful information.
The defect I observed once I had started the sequence was that the track containing the first sequence had volume control over all virus sounds. It’s scope displayed a mix of all virus sounds. The subsequent tracks controlling the aliases had no waveforms displayed in the scopes, and had no control over the volume of the virus via the mixer faders. This may, however, be normal behaviour. I will give it a test in Sonar and see if you have independent control over each output there.
The TI does have it’s own faders in the plug-in for each channel, but it would be nice to have control in Renoise with scopes correctly displayed.
I’m not sure how much you can do towards supporting the TI without having one there to test. I’m sure all the TI users here would be happy to email Access technical support asking them to supply you with any information you need for fully implementing TI support in Renoise.
If I discover anything else I’ll post it up.
:EDIT:
It appears that it runs of a single output in Sonar as well. It also has the delay…I appears that Sonar is not an officially supported sequencer either. This doesn’t bode well for access co-operating with you if - presuming Cakewalk have tried - hmm I’ll continue to have a play with it.
:EDIT 2:
Despite the delay in triggering the BPM LED on next to the LCD screen flashes precisely in time with the sequencer.