Virus Control can directly read from "banks" that exist on your hard drive as MIDI files (each "bank" contains 128 patches, so that's a pair of physical banks for the Snow eg. RAM 1+2). Check out the User Manual, pages 58-9, and 61.

"If you wish, you could easily download every Virus Patch ever
published on the Access site, drop them into the Patches folder,
and have instant access to them all via the Browser."


I can't seem to find bank files for the patches as listed in the manual's appendix though :(

Thanks Fuirippu. I've checked out all this and downloaded several banks of patches from the Access site. Thanks for gentle reference to the manual too! - I am going to sit down for an hour or so and go through the suggested 'library management' techniques. Being methodical is not my strong point when it comes to music gear - usually I put my head down and charge in a creative and playful splurge, then later wonder why I can never find anything or remember what I did!

Hmmm. Vocoder floats onto the horizon. I had a first and second unsuccessful go at trying to modulate an oscillator carrier with a mic signal from the audio input, but no joy yet beyond just causing the oscillator sound to stop temporarily when it meets an incoming voice signal.

Any easy ways into vocoding, anyone? (The manual teasingly gives me an idea of what it's supposed to do, but I can't yet actually get the machine to do it)

Suzzy,

When tweaking controls, there are a few tips I found while obsessing over the manual that you might find useful:

- Ctrl-clicking a parameter sets it to the default value.
- Option-clicking jumps the control to the location that you click on the control (good for fast-switching rotary controller values).
- Holding Shift while tweaking a parameter in the software gives you finer resolution control.

Hope this helps you zero out those controls!

- max

Thank you Max. I didn't know about the Shift+Click. I don't have Option as I'm a PC user :( but myabe another key does that - I'll have a look. Ta!

Option is actually the same as the Alt key on a PC, so that should work for you. Give it a try! :)

- max