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Originally Posted by Splat!
What exactly is this 'Dark Character' of the Virus, that everyone talks about?  I love the sound, but in no way does it instantly sound all evil unless I'm hitting some minor diminished chord.
 It sounds all happy on a Gmajor. 
But, seriously, I don't get the dark vibe that people talk about when relating to the Virus. Maybe I'm just deaf  |
This is very subjective, of course. But I really like what I would describe as the "dark" quality of the Virus. A lot of VA synths I hear have a very flat, bright, in-your-face edge to them. It translates to my ears as "no refinement", a kind of low-class, cheap sound. The Virus makes it easy to design sounds that sound refined and classy. It seems to me that this comes at a certain expense in edginess, hence the darkness.
That's completely subjective of course, I can well imagine that others might hear things very differently...
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Originally Posted by marc
infected.org is a weird forum. there is so much talk about the technical aspects of the virus but hardly anything related to how it sounds and not much about how to make it sound good.
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Well, a lot of us (like me) go running to an internet forum when we're having some technical problem. I usually don't come to forums for help with music per se or even sound design. It's a lot harder to talk about the subjective qualities of sound on a user forum than it is to ask how to do a hard reset or burn a ROM bank.
-Luddy
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