Seems to me or all Viruses are packed full of problems?

[suzzymackenzie]

I think that Access really does care about those bugs. All bugs captured are very well looked after, in a humane (if secure) environment, before eventual shipping to Japan where they are rehabilitated and found work in lesser machines.

My perspective wasn't progress to Virus from other synths: the Virus is the first synth I have ever owned. I certainly had some naive notions that modern digital stuff works first time every time, but I have been slowly adjusting to the reality that is the mixture of science and artistry that is complex hardware inspired and enabled by software. From Timo's post I derived the more general message that the task and joy is to work within this instrument's (already generous) limitations. If the Virus really does, statistically, throw up the most issues - and I guess this honour has to go to one synth or another - for me this is more than compensated by the sense that there are people in labs and offices dedicated to making it work and making the next one work even better