Some newbie Virus questions

[simonharris]

Thanks sincerely Hvyen, you have been very helpful. It's basically like a softsynth where you save the DAW arrangement and it saves whatever set up was on a particular channel. That could mean the Snow could be a good bet for me because it's not totally dependent on the ROM banks being the same on each channel.

Also thanks for your comments Gtrance, I know what latency delay sounds like thanks and I am happy to report that with my setup, a powerful quad core mac with 8GB ram I can detect no latency delay to any of the softsynths via midi when rapidly hitting the keys on my attached USB keyboard and none on my attached VI Maschine, it plays absolutely tightly onto the Logic metronome. If there is latency I cannot detect it and like I said I have been an audio engineer for 25+ years and heard horrible latency on many DAW's in the past caused by the sounds cards slow processing of external instruments.

Yes synths are great when tweaked but it should be an option nowadays, one expects great patches which you can customize as an option, I am sure the Virus will have great patches and I look forward to using some of them untouched and others to tweak, what i don't want to do is create sounds from scratch, that is for the hardcore fanboys who and not for a producer with a deadline who has complete songs to produce and mix. I am a producer looking for great sounds, some of them I will tweak and some I won't.