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Originally Posted by feedingear
if the virus had Massive style LFO performance sequencer it would be ridiculously amazing.
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Massive style LFOs, drawable oscillators, and higher-rate LFOs would make for a killer update for sound designing, along with HiSpeed USB v2 (480Mbps) TI (or USB 3, which is back-compatible with USB 2).
I think so many people already have TIs, the Virus market has almost reached saturation point. It would require something at least this radical to make their existing userbase want to upgrade.
On a different note, I've just found an interview with Christoph Kemper talking about the Kemper Profiling Amp (I'll call it KPAmp), as well as the Virus, and giving an insight into his company.
To cut the cheese and see what the KPAmp actually does go to 2:17. Pretty amazing stuff.
The interview starts 6:42.
In essence, it appears that the team that works on the KPAmp is indeed the same team that works on the Virus, and the KPAmp project has been in development since at least 2005 (the Virus TI mk1 was only released in 2004). Christoph says he had worked on the Virus for a decade and didn't want to be limited to just the synth.
This also fully ascertains why some TI OS features (particularly OS v4) have come from 'profiling' oriented backgrounds - the speaker cabinet simulator, the six stomp box distortions, et al.
Interestingly they ask if the KPAmp will have Total Integration like the Virus, and Christoph effectively says "it's an idea for the future, but they primarily wanted to concentrate on the sound" and "they haven't focused on it, and there's no near plans to introduce TI". He even suggests "you can connect easily to a computer by using S/PDIF"! Either a possible indirect acknowledgement that Total Integration has been a rocky road to travel down, or a marketing ploy to reserve future features for KPAmps a few years down the line.
He does say there is no plans to refine the profiling technique at present, so maybe a return to the Virus?
The interview was posted in Feb 2013, a year ago (as of now).