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This is one of the headache I have with the virus - beautiful for soft sounds, but it takes quite a bit of effort to get a good raw impact out of it, whereas some synths just ooze it.
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I know what you mean here. I've been playing with the distortion on the virus and I just don't like it at all. It doesn't sound warm, or musical, or useable for anything apart from glitch, random fill noises and fx.. at least, not without some serious Configuring. The synth overall so far is amazing, I absolutely love the filters and the other onboard effects are good, but my inability to make it produce a badass sounding distortion-based bass or screaming leads is a tad worrying. The quality of the sound is superb, it's just that damn distortion...
I'm thinking I might buy a seperate distortion unit, I've had my eyes on this:
It's proper valve-based analog and the reviews for it are very positive. People talk about using it to "inject analog warmth", and running their whole mixes through it on a low gain setting (i guess it can also be set to scream like a banshee). Plus, it looks so awesome... =)
Trying to decide at the moment whether to get it, or some multiFX unit first. The virus onboard effects really aren't bad at all...
-Annikk