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Originally Posted by MBTC
But the crux of my position is that despite how easy it is to do right, don't hold your breath waiting for Access to do it. They transcended complacency a long time ago and have been riding on all-in-arrogance for many years. The best you can hope for is an announcement in NAMM 2016 of the coveted limited edition PinkStar, a Virus with pink keys for those fans of Lady Gaga or Ke$ha  Another color change, yay. Marvels of innovation. |
I guess sarcasm is running strong in this forum. Made me laugh!
I agree with you. I only think even if they did it, that option could possibly conflict with at least some patches - since it has to use the modulation matrix slots to achieve so, at least on the current architecture. A firmware update would be great, of course. But if I have to "hold my breath", like you say, I'm assuming major changes will only arrive with a new version of the Virus - when and if such a thing ever comes to be. And I honestly hope they focus on taking some of the suggestions from people here (I'm going to proclaim the obvious here: we're the best making suggestions for hardware on the entire web, gear slutz are amateurs compared to the core members here XD), if not mine, at least Timo's idea of what the Virus could touch would make me happy enough to buy one. User drawable waves for both LFO and oscillators would totally kill! And I'm pretty sure they'd implement them on both modules, pretty much like they did with the extra 64 waves - that are the thing that set the Virus apart in terms of modulation to these day! Well, other companies have been sleeping more then Access has. I'm thinking Clavia here. I mean, last update you got extra envelopes on the Virus and that brings any synthesizer to another level in terms of possibilities whilst the Lead is still very similar in features - even the latest one - to a classic hardware synthesizer. But they are the first (I think so, no?) to have done a Virtual Analogue and despite that fact, the thing does sound great. I discovered to my surprise (quite recently) that I love some of the sounds you get out of it. You've heard them everywhere on classic tunes from primordial EDM times, from Goa classics, to House, to Techno, to almost everything you can imagine. The fact that it's got a simple architecture plays on it's behalf if you're using it rather then looking at a detailed specs sheet - because of the immediacy of the interface that asks you "just go ahead and tweak me". Plenty of ways to look at the same thing.
But to make things clear, I do agree with you. All efforts should be made to make simple things simple. Sometimes they involve getting deeply under the hood though and I think it would conflict with some patches currently on the libraries and would just be another mess to get into. And they have plenty of that with the "integration" thing already. Just speculation of course...
I think this is the way to go with most manufacturers out there: better integration, perfect sync, screen editors or proper plug-ins to integrate into our host apps with total recall... I believe we will get it pretty soon! And I have the feeling Access is going to surprise us when the time comes. I was actually glad that one of the guys has been busy with the guitar stuff, means it's not just sleeping over success, there's a reason behind this delay. I think the update sort of makes up for it and most people that own the Ti or Ti2 just moan about it because they've paid the big buck for something that doesn't work as publicized regarding the integration. But if you compare the specs on the C to the TI with the latest update, you'll hardly think they've been sleeping!