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I have a TI2 desktop and Polar which I'm quite fond of, and I hear you on the aliasing adding up into mud, but wouldn't this be true for lots of other VA's as well, only perhaps resulting in slightly different mud than what the Virus makes? The final results of the mix being more important to you is highly understandable. So is not wanting to depend on a bunch of synths. I still wouldn't sell an otherwise highly capable synth just because it didn't work as the only synth for practically all the sounds in my tracks.

What synth does? To counter this and show that opinions are indeed like assholes, my second workstation just went back down to being the Virus and an MPC all by themselves.

I just extracted a synth from that rig that has more capabilities as far as the things I like such as oscillator FM, filter cutoff FM, and more direct sync editing.

I'll miss it, but I like that the Virus sounds great on its own and occupies a good chunk of space in the mix. What I lose in flexibility, I gain in focus and musicality. One person's trash is indeed another person's treasure. I bought a Virus TI2 desktop earlier this year and I love it. Have used it on countless pieces already. I really like my Ti2 desktop as well. I play mainly live and tend to use single sounds from the synth though.

Aliasing in that context is a non issue. I may replace it soon though, as due to space I have a 1 in 1 out policy. Iridium is on my radar and seems to do anything virus can plus fm and granular. I look polyphony to 16 voices, and its mono timbres BUT live thats fine my peak is 8 voice and deep mindcis As for classic VA synths, surly the JP is that If you use the analogue outputs you can slightly improve the aliasing by changing the internal audio clock to 48kHz.

It's not much of a difference but it is audible. I can't get my Virus B OS 4. What I am missing? Have you checked on the synths menu it's got sys ex receive enabled..? I had a good time last night filling in gaps left by the Blofeld's absence. The Virus doesn't sound like a Blofeld, but I love that it's got the flexibility to bring a ton of meat to the table in this department. Does it help you come up with patches and stuff?

But then I was thinking, I could sell my KK keyboard for , sell some synths I have and don't use much anymore, and get the full thing for not that much more money, and use it as my controller. I'm literally just after the sound signature, I usually edit all my synths in vsts though. Yes I have that and the latest v2 is an improvement on the first one, not least that the gui is scaleable to several sizes.

I think he is a little snowed under generally as he is a one man band! I have found communication to be non existent to my individual requests yet he does send out generic emails. I bought via paypal. I have the pulse 2 as well which is certainly the best editor in stability terms out of all the other pulse ones. I am using the first beta version 2 and thanks to you reminding me I have just checked and downloaded an update that maybe 5 increments over mine, which is really cool as had a problem yesterday with a replicate-able crash on loading a certain library patch.

Looks like they may have fixed this some updates down the line. Definitely worth getting the editor even if using the hardware hands on. I have just placed mine right in front of me so having to rearrange the compact studio Okay, good to know.

Just noticed your posts on the Mystery Island software. Have been wanting this for a while ordered it and got a discount for the Christmas sale. Was a good deal. Top Mentioned Manufacturers. Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn. Subscribe to our Newsletter.

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Skallawa 7th May I think so.. Which I doubt. It brought users that had less budget but always wanted more while still being amateur n dont make any cash from their productions or gigs.

End up having to do loads of support for various configurations problems that are not yet still solved apparently. If you eat seasoned producers about what define the sound is clearly the Hypersaw that originate from the TI line if i dont go wrong. So yes the virus product line has changed forever the sound of the todays modern recordings, from depeche mode to electronic music in general. But the forever free updates policy of the brand is causing them trouble nowadays as they maxed up what you could get out of the motorola dsps and no one is clearly ready to rewrite the complete code to make a TI3.

Whatever the price its sold, this translate the cost of the research n developments not onyl the celebrity of the brand. This is a fantastic article, and I have cited it in numerous conversations on the Virus line and the possible retiring of the Virus. I have a kB and and TI2 keyboard version, and will keep them until either the keyboards or myself cease functioning. Log in or Create account.

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First we should talk a bit about the special computing chip, the heart of every Virus synthesizer, a certain version of the Motorola 56k DSP digital signal processors. Music Industries as to which DSP architecture features they would need to produce synthesizers and other keyboards. This happened in the mid s when the Japanese music industry introduced digital keyboards using ASICs Application Specific Intergrated ICs , and started dominating this field previously exclusive to US manufacturers.

The result of this request was the birth of the first Motorola digital signal processor DSP generation in These 56k chips were used widespread also in the audio industry since the mid 90s, not just in hardware synthesizers and effect processors , but appeared as an auxiliary digital signal processor for audio functions in some high-end multimedia computers , like the NeXT, the Atari Falcon or the Silicon Graphics Indigo workstations.

The traditional DSP's are here to stay for some embedded systems , designed for longer life cycles, like telecommunication devices sonars, radars, transponders, decoders, etc , different devices in avionics, naval, military, medical or automotive industry, where the life cycle of devices is naturally much longer compared to consumer electronic devices.

As you certainly know, Virus is a digital synthesizer , with a 56k DSP running software code to generate and modify all aspects of the sounds, these are the exact models:. This newest and probably the last 56k DSP is part of the Symphony series DSPs , where the main difference to its predecessors is that they are dual core chips.

As mentioned above, companies manufacturing traditional DSP chips target growing industries with the more modern technology, and audio is not in the focus anymore, also the type of processors being used have changed to low consumption ARM, FPGA and MCU chips. A rhetorical question: however it is possible to transfer the Virus Assembly code from single core to the latest dual core Symphony DSPs, Access would certainly not choose a soon-to-be obsolete and unsafe chip platform for their next iteration of Virus, not even in the case of increased potential performance.

It means that the code describing the algorithms are being created on a universal language, as opposed to the low-level assembly code written for platform and manufacturer dependent DSP platforms. This is one of the reason but probably not the most important one, see below that we hardly see anything new from synthesizer companies previously utilizing the 56k DSP platform.

It is pointless to develop a new product using the same old chips software updates are great, but no companies do it seriously, except Access , so the only chance for some manufacturers is to extend the availability of their DSP-based product: selling as much as they can.

Anyway, real analog is the name of the game today and experimentation with new CPU architectures brought some smaller results up to now, e. No question: the latest 56k DSP architecture would still fit the best in the audio niche, its performance is still quite good even today.