Envelope follower

[HUBA]

Who, me? I'd like to be able to use an external LFO with the virus. A real LFO that can swap between waveshapes and time signatures and do other neat things a MIDI message wont deliver. Besides, I'd like to avoid clogging the MIDI flow to prevent sluggish timing. It also could be interesting to try out audio range modulation, although I suspect the Virus has some hidden self destruct function that would activete by the sight of a modulation wave faster than 20Hz.. What do you think?

I've thought about using the control pedal input, and I'm looking into CV to resistance convertion, but that looks pretty complicated, and I suppose I'll have a hard time finding a suiting expression pedal with input for CV control.

I love the virus sound and the free updates and all, but the LFO section is pretty limited, and the lack of any audio rate modulation source is frustrating to put it mildly. No sequencer and no repeating envelopes doesn't help either.

It's almous like Access went out of their way to make sure to keep it boring. I know DSP power isn't handed out for free, but neither is the TI. It's actually quite expensive for a VA with the mentioned limitations if you ask me. Nevertheless, I'm not looking for a replacement. I have other synths, and will keep the virus, but if it's possible to have an external LFO working with the virus, then it's something that I'd like to make sure I know about.