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Originally Posted by Roby31
(MBTC decided it was not his thing and got his money back and I think it was a good solution overall). this way you can try it and decide after creating some personal patches.
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My situation may not be applicable to the original poster though. His reservation is about the overall Virus sound and his impression of presets. In my case I had no problems with the Virus sound, it's just that I'm a DAW-based guy, so things like latency and the USB support were a deal-breaker for me. Also since I was listening to the Ti2 over USB, there was pretty much no sound benefit over a high-end softsynth (most people that rave about the sound of hardware over software are really talking about a straight signal from a box to the amp or their ears or whatever). If he does not feel comfortable with the trance-ish sound of the Virus, it gives me serious doubts whether its the synth for him. Like I said, it COULD make the sounds he wants, depending on how much he is into sound design, just seemed like he might be more of a preset-with-minor-tweaks type.
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Originally Posted by Roby31
I'm also not sure what softsynths could make you change your mind - if you found the Virus too clinical in the highs I wouldn't go with Zebra (too muddy) Dune (either) or the Virus Wannabes (Z3ta+, Vanguard), but rather maybe some of the arturia V or memorymoon synths.
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Keeping in mind what I just said above about presets, and depending on the OP's preference in that area, what you've said about those softsynths may be true. Howevever those who have not explored the vast amount of free sounds for Zebra have not even heard a fraction of what it is capable of. All I can say here is do not judge Zebra by the presets! It is an amazingly flexible synth, and things can be as muddy or as amazing as you want them! How the default EQing sounds on any one particular individual's monitors compared to the Virus is a different story, but that is easy enough to adjust with Zebra's built in tweaking. Dune can also sound fantastic, less flexible but dead-easy to program and you can get tons of sound with very little CPU. Sylenth1 is also a good one. Vanguard I have very little use for, Z3ta+ can sound good enough but is too much of a pain in the ass because of it's user interface.