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DJ Kontakt
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 07:10
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i like the sounds, but the case and keyboard are a little low quality for the price IMO
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kajola
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 13:10
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14-year old e-tard
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 13:27
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I believe it is much more worth upgrading the the TI than it was upgrading the the C series.
The whole sequencer intergration thingy was never been done before.
Hypersaw in not a new feature, the Jp8000/8080 had hypersaws and I think Novation implemented something similar.
The bad thing about Wavetables is that you can't import your own, and at that price, I would expect that option.
Roll on the next 10000 tracks with Virus presets I guess 
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koniord
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 15:00
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@Fugga
If you own a poco mk1 I would recommend a mk2 upgrade rather than the virus unlimited licence.
You'll have a lot of dsp power, some new plug-ins and another 4 part virus instance (1dsp) without having to pay for it. I don't know about you but 8 parts of virus|poco is enough for me....
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sonik_akb
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 17:50
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On 2005-12-15 13:27, 14-year old e-tard wrote:
Hypersaw in not a new feature, the Jp8000/8080 had hypersaws and I think Novation implemented something similar.
The bad thing about Wavetables is that you can't import your own, and at that price, I would expect that option.
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Dear Nectarios, you are right here... JP80x0 has the supersaw waveform - that was very abused on dutch/german trance - and the Supernova 2 has the double saw waveform. Ah, don't forget the Multi-saw waveform contained on the PLG150-AN (An1x plug-in card for CS6x). The priciple are the same: several saws detuned each other.
Waldorf Microwave XT is able to load user wavetables (using the PC) and its big brother Wave is able to resynthesize in real time. XT cannot have two wavetables for each OSC, i.e. the same wavetable is set for the both OSCs, but I think TI can have different wavetables on OSC (I really don't know).
Sincerely, if you have the Waldorf XT and a Virus C, you has the same synthesis power from the TI, except, of course, the Total Integration feature.
About the bugs on TI, I think the following: Waldorf Q had a lot (I say again, A LOT) bugs in the begining, but today it's a stable machine. And the support from the Access always was amazing (the best support I've ever seen, much better than Novation arghhhhhhhhh! I have the SN2 and I know that).
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danger
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 21:24
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Undertow: you say it wouldnt sound better if it calculates on 192khz than on 48khz? then you are wrong...
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UnderTow
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 22:21
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Danger, care to explain? 
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koniord
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 22:56
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for proccessing audio signal it makes sence to work on more khz, for synths it doesn't. |
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danger
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Posted : Dec 16, 2005 09:33
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UnderTow
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Posted : Dec 17, 2005 00:10
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Well for one 96Khz makes alot more sense than 192Khz. (192Khz is purely marketing bla bla). But frankly, one of the reasons why the Virus sounds the way it does is because it intentionaly uses approximations in its DSP calculations making it sound less clinical. How would increasing the sampling rate help with this?
It is probably also a desgin choice. Do you want half the voices and FX or do you want a minute difference in sound quality (which might not even exist depending on the DSP algorithms within the Virus)?
The TI has about 80 voices polyphony on average and is 16 part multi-timbral. The G2 has 32 voices and 4 parts multi-timbrality. Go figure. 
I don't know why Clavia choose to use 96Khz. It could be for marketing reasons. It could be because it is easier to design anti-aliasing filters with softer slopes. (Easier, not better).
Also look at the price of a G2 and a TI and think about the number of I/Os on each, look at the Total Integration aspect, number of voices etc. It could be argued that the G2 is between 4 and 8 times as epxensive than a TI depending on how you look at it.
Would it make business (and sound) sense for Access to go 96Khz? I doubt it. They obviously don't think so.
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danger
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Posted : Dec 21, 2005 23:31
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AjmaGard
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Posted : Dec 22, 2005 11:55
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On 2005-12-21 23:31, danger wrote:
How many times did u use more than 32 voices? and more than 4 parts multitimbral?
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That depends on how you work...
I do all my tracks directly in midi and only bounce them to audio when the track is finished and ready for final mixing. Also when playing live i use mainly midi. So I definately have a use of more than four parts most of the time.
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