Buying either Snow or Desktop TI - Noob Questions

[12341234]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

I run a TI Snow daily on my projects.. usually three of the four parts. You can get a lot of use out a Snow as long as you know how to optimize your patches. I rarely, as in almost never, run out of juice or get drop outs.

The Richard Divine soundsets are the heaviest consumption wise and they play back fine. You can get some pretty massive sounds with the virus without stacking 8 unison parts on it as well.

Great info. just what I was looking for, thanks!

I almost got a Snow last night but somebody beat me to it with the "buy it now" option on ebay Now I think it is basically down to which ever model comes up first and at the right price... I've seen a few Snow's go for as much as Desktop models in the past few months and there aren't many available at the moment.

If I get tired of waiting and decide to go ahead and buy new, considering that the Snow will play all of these soundsets, wondering, for someone who wants to work ITB as much as possible, does anyone who has owned a Snow and then upgraded to the Desktop model think its really worth the extra coin/regret it?

[MarPabl]

Originally Posted by 12341234

If I get tired of waiting and decide to go ahead and buy new, considering that the Snow will play all of these soundsets, wondering, for someone who wants to work ITB as much as possible, does anyone who has owned a Snow and then upgraded to the Desktop model think its really worth the extra coin/regret it?

Considering the type of sounds you need, I think the only issue you may have is the lack of knobs for realtime tweaking. If you'll work mostly with a DAW, it's fine. If you need live performance and you want to do many adjustments, it's more difficult on the Snow.

Considering that the Virus TI Desktop (first version) is usually sold at a price for a new Snow, maybe that's a pretty interesting option to consider

[12341234]

Originally Posted by MarPabl

Considering the type of sounds you need, I think the only issue you may have is the lack of knobs for realtime tweaking. If you'll work mostly with a DAW, it's fine. If you need live performance and you want to do many adjustments, it's more difficult on the Snow.

Considering that the Virus TI Desktop (first version) is usually sold at a price for a new Snow, maybe that's a pretty interesting option to consider

Yeah, I wont be using this live at all, strictly studio work.

I agree. From all of the reading and demos I already decided that the TI2 additional features aren't enough for me to go all in for a new Desktop. I'm on the hunt for either a Used Snow, Desktop TI or a new Snow if all else fails. Unless of course I find something else that'll do the job while waiting around...

[MarPabl]

Originally Posted by 12341234

Yeah, I wont be using this live at all, strictly studio work.

I agree. From all of the reading and demos I already decided that the TI2 additional features aren't enough for me to go all in for a new Desktop. I'm on the hunt for either a Used Snow, Desktop TI or a new Snow if all else fails. Unless of course I find something else that'll do the job while waiting around...

Considering the budget assigned to those choices, the best option is a Virus TI Desktop (first generation), even the Virus TI Keyboard (fist generation) can be appealing.