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Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

you mean automation?

Well, not really. Automation is when you first record or program a program change, like for example filter cutoff, and then play it back from the computer. What I'm talking about is something like this, which way the signal travels:


Basic setup:

Cutoff knob ---> Virus motherboard
(The signal from the knob never actually leave the virus)

With midi interface:

Cutoff knob ---> midi out (on virus) ---> midiinterface ---> computer --->midi interface ---> midi in on the virus --->virus motherboard

You see the difference? It looks like with the midi interface and computer the signal goes an unnessecary long and complicated way. but there's a heavy traffic all the time along this way. You adjust the knob from lets say, 45 to 46 and then the virus tells this to the computer that echo this signal back to the synth. When the virus has changed the cut off from 45 to 46 it tells your computer this, then the knob goes from 46 to 47, the computer notice and so on... If you adjust the knob from 50 to 100, no matter how fast, there is actually about 100 different signals back and forth the signal way!!!

IN BASIC TERMS: This way your computer acts like some kind of babysitter that all the time control what your synth is actually doing. And it wont allow any jumps.