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Originally Posted by Timo
Think I may have found the reason why the Virus updates have been scarce this past year or two.
Christoph Kemper (aka Kemper Digital), the founder and primary coder for the Virus ever since its first inception, has been working on high-end profiling amplifiers for guitarists the last two years or so, the first of which was released in January 2012 last year. Several new versions debuted at the 2013 NAMM show just a few days ago.
Guess the guy can't split himself in two, and has chosen to expand into the guitar arena for the time being. We may even have seen some of that technology trickle into the Virus in former updates (mainly OS v4), such as the stomp-box distortion models and speaker cabinet simulation.
Firewire is nearly dead. USB v2 HighSpeed, or USB v3 would be the way to go to allow for the widest user-base. |
Why are we still hard-pressed to find audio interfaces with USB 3 currently, (certainly correct me and give example as perhaps I have not looked hard enough), but yet Firewire and USB 2 seem to be the standard still? Heck, even SPDIF LIGHTPIPE was also put on my custom DAW PC just to have most bases covered...however, at the time when I had this made, Thunderbolt was not so much available on the PC side of things but moreso Apple. So, has USB v2 HighSpeed really come that far that for instance, I need not necessarily have to sell a kidney to get great latency without having to buy RME only? Hope so as that's my quest no.
That's really cool research info you came up with on what Mr. Kemper has been working on and for a small company, it certainly does not indicate Access "is dead" as some naysayers have been spouting here!