So today, my Snow arrived to me at at work!
Overall, I am very impressed! This synth totally kills anything I have owned! There are a ton of patches on this thing, I haven't even had a chance to hear them all yet and I've been playing with it for almost 3 hours! So much nice sounding stuff... filters are excellent same with on board effects. I can't wait to fully get into programming this synth. My girlfriend is going to hate me!
Not so hip on the bag. I suppose it's ok and certainly better than nothing. I'll probably get a steel case for it sooner than later.
What I'm having trouble with is the implementation of TI software... My Snow OS is 2.7.0.37 but the TI software is still 2.5 I believe. I went to the Access site and all I could find were 2.5 TI software (which specifically says NOT FOR SNOW right on the site.... Any ideas? Inside of Ableton Live on my macbook every box is checked "green" except the OS. TI seems disfunctional for the most part (all the tabs are unavailable/grayed out) although if its not the right version this makes total sense...
Is this synth worth $1,250? I dunno yet. For me it seems to be. It really does sound amazing but I've never owned a Virus before. I find it pretty easy to navigate around; even after 2 1/2 hours. Having minimal knobs to tweak is fine with me. My controller with Automap can make up for most of that If you have a huge sounding VA and do not play out a lot maybe it's not the right synth for you. Between the Snow, my monitors, macbook, Novation Remote 25, my soundcard and cables my Ikea Jerker desk seems cramped. I couldn't imagine having to exchange the controller and Snow for a Virus KB. I simply wouldn't have space in my apartment.
I'll be broke for a few months between this and all of my bills but whatever... I was broke for years before! No big deal. I have a Virus now!