yawn...

ten

My distributor has said the same thing actually! 8O

Apparantly they've gotten around the problem by using one of those old C64 tape drives - patch parameters, plus multi setups must be saved to cassette. :D

I really trust my distributor, because everything he has said has come true! Of course those of you who have read this track from the start know that already. :wink:

Pure mental illness

DS

Press play on tape to load patch :lol:

Complete with retro "TI Syntax Error: Your OS is kaput"

Its about time we start using old skool technology again. Sure, I used tape casettes to load patches into a Jupiter 8....and yes it took 2 days to load....

Ah they were the days

* Do any of you guys remember playing mid 80's computer games that required one to load up from casettes.....took like 10 mins to load!!

DS

Yea I remember playing games on an old Adam computer off of cassette. It was crazy :) Had to rewind it too after you played it. lol

It wasn't mine though. I had a TRS-80. (still do, and the damn thing still boots off of its original floppies; they must hae been sitting in 130+ deg. weather outside for years and years and years... amazing :P)

http://oldcomputers.net/trs80iii.html

This kid was pretty well off and his parents bought him everything, but I got to play games with him on his computer. It was pretty much a thousand times better than my TRS-80 (not really, but graphics were everything in a kids eyes.) :)

http://oldcomputers.net/adam.html

I remember how weird this computer was, the printer had to be on to use it because it powered the entire system. lol

So would this be considered an analog synth now? :)

Wouldn?t it be easier just to re-program the patch from scratch :lol:


Then it must have been a very small game. I remember sitting in front of the screen winding and rewinding the tape looking for that special pattern of funny cloured stripes and then waited for half an hour just to find out that the game didn?t work :? But then came the revolutionary 5 1/4" diskdrive (noisy as hell). Boy that was rocket fast loading times and as a side reward you could buy single sided disk and cut them in the side so that they became double sided for half the price. Oh, the days it was 8)

Hi-tech = Load "wonderboy",8,1


Well at least your patches are stored analog :lol:

Do any of you guys remember circa 1987 amiga games like...

ELITE
F-16
LEISURE SUIT LARRY

etc etc

Oh boy....i had so much fun playing those. In '87 the Amiga 500 was the dogs bollox of computer gaming....

DS

Oh boy, did i love that game. "So, what kind of lubbers would you like sir? Pebermint, rippled, coloured, etc. etc. etc." and so on for 5 minutes :lol: I think i still have all the Larry games on some CD-rom somewhere. If you would like to recall memories, Larry 1 is abandomware now and free to download 8)

Edit: Maybe your right. Things where better in the 80?s :lol:

By the way: Giana Sisters. A classic for Amiga :D

Great memories are still attached to my old C64 - trying to copy games in a shitty double deck recorder, breaking all my old Atari joysticks with California games and hearing my first "real" sound sample on a computer (a second long clip of "gunna be a kung fu fighter").

I'm really happy Access are deciding to go the tape route. They are even talking about putting in a colour screen, so you can watch the coloured stripes flash as the patches load. :D

yeah yeah yeah..
Screw you all :lol: (just kidding)

Im only telling you what I've been tolded.
And I really trust my friend :)

But he could been given the wrong info, I dont know.
Bah, lets just wait and see :P

10 dollars Im right!
Whos in? 8)

Apart from the June 20th release date ;)

Everyone is entitled to one mistake I guess. Hold on, I think he was talking about the June 20th 2006 release. :D

I'm in! As long as the tenner is of the vitual kind of course.

does anyone remember this?

http://www.access-music.de/products.php4?product=virusd

the Virus TI is just like the ?black helicopter?. You hear a lot ABOUT it, but you never hear IT or SEE it.

what the heck is that? and why is it on access's site?

It was just to tantalise before we even knew of such a thing as a Virus T...., er, um... a T...., err, no. Sorry, I can't recall. :lol:

ha.

I _wish_ I could forget.

Access marketing really out did them selves with the TI fuck up didn't they? :D

What continues to amuse me is their double-page centrefold Virus T, er, um - I forget - advert spread still appearing every month in SOS.

They must really enjoy winding up new customers and old pre-paid customers alike.

Kinda like PMT, but on paper. :D

Access don't place those ads - it's the distributors (Turnkey in this case).

I imagine Turnkey are racking up a tidy sum with the interest on all those pre-orders, at the expense of exacerbating the non-materialising T.., um, er, synth... issue. 8O

I wonder how this works....is it really beneficial to Turnkey to keep publishing full page spreads of the Virus TI line.....who pays for the advertising space. Access must be footing the bill in order to keep the publicity going....advertising is not cheap.

You know guys, the TI will be released one of these days....and when it is....the frustration we all endured will subside....then overtime people will come to respect the fact Access released a product with minimum bugs.

This Brazilian weed is well good...

DS :lol:

Unfortunately this is still the fault of Access for giving out a release date in the first place. It was such a pitty that all of this had to happen. Someone at Access must have known that the OS wasn't ready - if so, why was it let get as far as it did?

Anyway, my distributor still is sticking by his story! The TI will be released within the next month with a colour screen and a C64 tape drive to load in patches. :D

actually its good that at least ben crossland is inputting in this forum.

at least someone who has links to ACCESS.

ben has also never said the the ACCESS VIRUS TI wiill not be coming out.

so i have made a big print of the TI - very close to the 47 cm wide, infact 40 (my print) and have it in the spot on my desk designed for it. i am already composing mentally with it, going through the manual.

it sounds better than my previous compositions, no faulty notes.

just noticed another 6 hairs fall onto my table just then.
just staring at the TI print, the sexiest synth ever seen, i am telling ya.

i thought the JP-8080 looked fantastic.

yup technomonster . . . you've got a bad case of the TI blues. I know, because I did the same thing!

LOL, this happening to you too - I wonder if this is common among synth waiting losers.

For Free
 

I saved and saved, Then put in the order.
I've been waiting for my virus for so long...
when I get its going to be like I got it for free.

I like the idea of a tape drive...Maybe they should bring back the hexadecimal screens like on the Ensoniq Mirage while they are at it.
Oohh Ohh, and the Akai Smart media disks.

Has ANY synth made by ANY decent manufacturer been released on time EVER?

No.

You can't compare anything to the Virus TI, it will be head and shoulders above any competing synth, you could even say that about the Virus C. Other synths certainly have their place, but in the virtual analog market the Virus is king and the Virus TI will be the best VA synth until the next Virus comes out.

I'd much rather wait until whatever problems they are having are fixed than have a synth with bugs. Any owner of Waldorf synths can attest to that. Not a single one of their synths is bug free. They kept putting off fixing them, chalking it up to having a small design team and that switching between different sets of code for each synth would slow down the entire process because they would have to reacclimate themselves to the code... and what happened in the end? Waldorf made dozens of promises that things would get fixed and then went out of business. Now there are thousands of Waldorf synths and Waldorf synth owners with synths that don't work how they were supposed to.

Wait. It'll be worth it. I'd rather have a perfectly functional synth a year from now than a buggy synth today.

(BTW, I'd like to think the delay is because they are adding Linux support ;), I also posted this on another forum, so if you're reading it twice I'm sorry if that offends you...)

Good point Amphibious...Just imagine Access out of business in 1 year :?

Saying that have they been IN business for the last year :roll:

My MicroQ and Pulse work very well here. No problems at all. Shame what happened to Waldorf.

Access bit a completely new set of problems by bringing the usb and plugin integration into a synthesizer. Standard midi & audio connections would have been problem free. I would have been happy if they just released a virus d with TI specs but without the total integration. An Adat optical out with 8 separate channels would have been a nice replacement for the usb and TI stuff. And they still could use that vst-like GUI but just to control the synth.

Total Integration
 

Personally I think the "Total Integration" is a great idea. The midi connection is out dated. If it were up to me I would replace it with some sort of usb connection that could be used keyboard to keyboard or keyboard to computer. Might just make the midi interface obsolete. It would also make it possible for every keyboard to record straight to Hard disk without having to buy an interface with digital ins. Access is going in the right direction.

Well, only if you can make the damn thing work... :roll:



Best,
midi.

Hahah yea :)

I think it is the way forward though. It will be nice just having the 1 connection for both audio and MIDI style interface. Since its not Firewire its a bit more compatible with computers as well. Definately a good thing.

This is my biggest gripe with the specs of the TI.
You honestly believe USB1@12mb/s is better then firewire@400mb/s just because more crap packaged home pcs come with a usb port? beh.
The only thing that would make this rediculous delay excusable would be if access were actually taking the time to upgrade the usb to firewire (400 or 800) outputs (about as much chance of this as the TI arriving before the end of this year).

cheers

blay

You sure about those specs? Hi-speed USB is like 480mbit/sec I believe. Those speeds I don't think would be really necessary even unless it had sampling. I think the TI specs exceed its capabilities and requirements IMO.

I might be wrong though but I thought the TI was on Hi-speed USB2 specs.

Naw, from what I heard from a friend of friend... whos ex-boyfriend looked like a girlfriend I had back in Feb. They are taking out the USB and replacing it with a 50pin SCSI cable.

On a serious note. I think the USB 2.0 is faster than the Firewire 400. But not faster than the Firewire 800.

The Access Virus specks say:
"USB2 compatible device, 12Mbit data transfer rate"

Of course by the time we get the Virus TI Im sure the USB cable will be obsolete, Younger kids will start calling me "Sir".