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PoM
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Posted : Dec 15, 2014 16:47
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or the caractere of the included fxs..lol for that sort of stuff fx quality matter so much. |
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frisbeehead
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Posted : Dec 18, 2014 22:23
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Any time someone mentions the Virus, you can rest assured people will start comparing it to plug-ins, speaking about its dark tone, so forth and so on...
But now the character of the included effects is a new one...
So here goes nothing: first and foremost, the Virus is perfectly capable of clear and precise highs, as much or better then any other VA hardware on the market, featuring less aliasing the most recent plug-ins - even those capable of oversampling. Then, the dark tone. This may apply to the first one and the B series, but it's not accurate when speaking about the C. Why? For one, it's got a 3 band Equaliser that allows one to change its tonal balance (per part), then it's got better converters and a much higher internal sample rate - similar to what oversampling does. Then what? ES2 can grab the Virus sound? Are you sure? What about the wavetables? What about granular synthesis? What about the included FX which are selectable as modulation destinations and thus can be thought out as part of the patch design, not just post processing (I don't think anyone is going to contest how this makes a difference, right?). Even the simple waveforms compared with an oscilloscope show a completely different form, differences in volume and timbre are noticeable, the filters react very differently.
So, please, why do such comparisons always come up with the Virus? I thought that was a syndrome that was contained within Gear Sluts, but apparently not.
Let me say one more thing: there's people who will spend their time debating, quite frankly, seriously frivolous things about little tiny details, obsessing about equipment, or analogue vs digital, or anything they can think of. It's all fine and neat.
But at the end of the day, what matters the most is getting down to it and making some music. The Virus is a worthy machine that helps one do just that. It packs a wealth of features to be matched by any VA hardware synth on the market and does so with incredible quality and style, effects included. |
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Xsze
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Posted : Dec 18, 2014 22:57
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You are on the ball with everything, but there was jump from Snow to TI2, of course plugins that cost fraction of it will pop out, TI1 desktop should be just fine, but before that giving a shot to something like Dune 2 or Serum.
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Xsze
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Posted : Dec 19, 2014 23:33
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frisbeehead
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Posted : Dec 20, 2014 18:38
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yes, virus ti desktop would be the best bang for buck, probably. only a 25% dsp difference, I've heard. not nearly enough to justify the added buck, imo.
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PSeuDoNyM
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Posted : Jan 9, 2015 13:19
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I don't know what daw you use
But can you not change the record offset to compensate for the latency?
In Studio One you have offset in samples for audio and offset in ms for midi which go into the negative..
 https://soundcloud.com/psypseudonym |
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