It's easy enough to implement that on a new instrument. It's not that easy to do that with a fixed arquitecture that's been here for long. There's many things to consider: the whole range of the Virus is identical in all aspects they have in common. If you have a patch made on the A, B or C, it should sound the same on the TI. So I guess it's just a brand priority. There's some HS patches that make clever use of this recursive modulation thing, for example, it takes a slot or two in the matrix. To change this into a more easy interface (only available on the TI range, of course, the first post was about a Virus C, uh? never mind...) would take much for such a tiny thing.
One of these days people will be complaining about not having multi-stage envelopes on a Virus B... you know? yes, things evolve and in software there are no limitations of any kind besides the cpu hit of the instrument, so it's kind of natural that some plug-ins have that and the Virus doesn't. You say 25 bucks, I say there's some free, open-source ones that do that. It's not a big deal. FM8 or Absynth can put any kind of envelopes in hardware to shame. So what?
But how do we get from Virus not being able to sound like a Nord. Or sounding "plastic and fake", to envelope's contour options versus recursive modulation? I don't think the difference between the two is down to the envelope's curves at all.
And if the Virus isn't keeping up with software, how about the Lead? Does it? I think the one who started this thread was looking for that particular character - and I know what he's talking about - and the best answer to that is still: just grab one! Let's not get into a it's all down to the converters thing, but I like the nord 1 and 2 better then 2x (possibly down to the older converters making the sound less clear, creating the illusion of more byte to it, don't know...) and they're fairly cheap on second hand market. But it's a much more "cumbersome" instrument. What it does, it does great and has "that sound".
How about a TB303 or a Mini Moog? they're pretty cumbersome to. Good that people can change the envelope's curves on some plug-in, uh? What the hell are we talking about here? It's the sound that counts.
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