NEW TI Users - Lets hear your opinions......
 

If you've just bought a TI we'd love to hear what you think of it! Any questions/comments/MP3's post them here!

I suppose you are all lucky bastards :lol:

DS

yes please, opinions welcome! as a future buyer I'd like to know from actual users, especially about the Total Integration issue, Virus control etc

please, please!!

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oops. i should pay more attention to already-started threads :oops: :oops:

Ill post some mp3's and opinions soon. im trying a few sequencers out with a variety of cards.

thanks then. are you trying FL Studio among those sequencers? I'm personally very interested in Total Integration and Virus Control.

Mine's just arrived...

Goodbye work, hello Studio!


Comments to be posted later this afternoon...

congrats mate... enjoy :D

still waiting here :roll:

cheers

blay

me too blay !! bah!

Okay, with only an hour of playtime, here are my initial thoughts - bear in mind I have never owned a Virus before, so the gushing which follows might not be what existing users of Virus synths want to hear about the TI - alas, it is all I can impart at this time:

Hardware

F*** me, what a monster! I have the TI Keyboard, which is a lot bigger than it looks in the pictures, and heavier! All metal chassis, which I am not used to at all having used a J-Pox8000 for so many years.
The semi-weighted Keyboard is nice to play on, and all the knobs feel robust.


Virus Control

I had trouble installing this software on a Dual 2.5 G5 for Logic 7.1. I had to install four times before it worked. The first pass it failed right at the end (it's about a 10 minute install time), the second time it claimed to have been successful, but the plugin wouldn't initialise properly once inside Logic. I installed again, and tried restarting the TI before launching Logic, still didn't work. Installed the fourth time and the installer suggested I log out of OS X to complete the installation before continuing, which I did - and still the plugin didn't work. So I restarted the Mac, and now it works.

So, although it's common practice to restart a machine after installing software, at no point did the installer prompt me to do so. Anyone with less patience might have been straight on the phone to support, so I suggest making it clearer in the installer that this stage is important.

Playing the synth with the plugin enabled resulted in horrible latency, until I took the I/O buffer size down to 32 (the lowest Logic supports), which is far lower than my EMI 2|6 required - so, I'm not sure what is going on there, perhaps there are more config settings I need to look at, but I'm useless with all of that stuff (any advice appreciated).


The Sound

As I say this is my first Virus, and despite being told countless times by a friend that I should sell my crusty JP8000 and get a Virus, I couldn't believe that it was _that_much_more_capable_ a synth.

However... just detuning the raw oscillators sounds amazingly powerful. I can program sounds on the JP - sounds that I am very proud of, so I will never sell it - but compared to the Virus it just seems... lightweight.

The TI reverb is lush, as are the distortion effects and filters... The overall sound of the synth is authentic. When I say authentic, I don't mean Analog sounding. I mean the sound feels alive - like it's not coming from a machine, but that it's alive in some fucked up universe of tech.

Happy me.


I'll post a track as soon as I can, but we're moving house in a week's time, which means the studio is being packed up very soon :(


pseudo


EDIT - My god how rude, I forgot to say: THANK YOU ACCESS!

Great review!
Many, many thanks