Xfer Serum VS Virus

[mrdos]

Originally Posted by synthfiend

I like the sound of Serum, it is has some nice pads etc. It seems funny saying a VA like the Virus sounds warm like an analogue synth but I would have to say that it does sound warm compared with Serum.

It's true. There's a guy on YouTube who has done some comparisons of the Viruses waveforms into a scope vs soft synths and notes how the soft synths produce "perfect" (eg boring) waveforms, and the virus produces ones that are more slightly bent like an analog synth does. It's that DSP.

The way I figure it,DSP is still quite a lot more powerful because x86 has always been inferior at calculating floating point, by its nature. Not to mention plugin makers are having to scale things down to run on lesser machines; one size fits all kinda thing. Not so in a closed hardware platform.