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Originally Posted by tricky
Well the only difference between the TI MK 1 and TI MK 2 as far as i can tell is 25% more calculating power a facial makeover and a nice big price tag. I for sure wont be trading my MK 1 for a MK 2. Perhaps Access could give me back 25% more calculating power thus enabling me more polphony by losing things like the atomiser which IMO is an awfull sounding 1 trick pony , also the ability to use the TI as a sound card is a total waste of time IMO how many people realy use this i know of none, and what about the vocoder lol. You see when i buy a synth all i want to buy is a synth, but in terms of synth sounds this is where the virus ti excells it simply sounds fantastic. I think it would be great if access could give us the ability to load only the components we need to use into the TI. I would also like to see a VST only version of this synth that way we could lose the hardware which lets face it is an oversized dongle, there are plenty of surface controllers out there that do a great job these days.
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Although I could live without the vocoder and atmoiser, if you couldn't use the TI as a soundcard, I personally wouldn't have gotten one.
I also like the hardware, specifically the negligible cpu-drain of complex synth patches and again wouldn't have bought it without it. I run an EEEPC as a sequencer (and it's more than adequate for this) for the Virus. If I was running comparable softsynths on it, it'd die. That said, I'd like a licence for a VST-only one to be included with every hardware one, so I could run it on my laptop away from my TI (for making patches etc.). Then when back in the studio, I could use the TI to alleviate CPU load.
EDIT: Oh and I don't know for sure, but I imagine that the way the TI works, when Atomiser isn't being used, it's not appreciably eating DSP clock cycles (same way distortion doesn't when it's turned off).