OK - I'm back, and I can officially confirm that..

[Smag]

Will the wavetable Osc make the Virus capable of "bright" sounds like the Microwave XT then? Is this brightness a characteristic of wavetable synthesis in general or the Microwave?

Also, will you be able to mix the Wavetable Osc with the Hypersaw?

[dries]

very bad news...

...for the competition.

when does access go public?

sounds like a good investment to me.

[ten]

Its been public since November. www.virus-ti.com

ten

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Originally Posted by Smag

Will the wavetable Osc make the Virus capable of "bright" sounds like the Microwave XT then? Is this brightness a characteristic of wavetable synthesis in general or the Microwave?

Also, will you be able to mix the Wavetable Osc with the Hypersaw?

Yes you can mix hypersaws and wavetables together. As far as the brightness goes...i think you will be able to get close.....but in my opinion the Virus has always sounded inherently dark (i.e. less bright than other synths/VA's). But dont hold me to that....as its just an opinion.

DS

[Househead]

Originally Posted by ben crosland

..TI F*CKING ROCKS!!!!

Nice demo Ben...Sound phat as phuck mate

Trying to watch it on the stream was a fooking nightmare, even on broad from Sonicstate...A lot of people tring to watch the same time as me must be a GOOD thing, eh

HH

[Gopal]

The one thing I'll say about that TI is that we are all gonna have to start producing in much higher resolutions and bitrates if we are gonna have enough headroom in the mix for more than a couple of those sounds.

Is there such a thing as TOO PHAT?

I never thought so before... Now I'm not so sure. 8O

[ben crosland]

Originally Posted by Smag

Will the wavetable Osc make the Virus capable of "bright" sounds like the Microwave XT then? Is this brightness a characteristic of wavetable synthesis in general or the Microwave?

Also, will you be able to mix the Wavetable Osc with the Hypersaw?

Yes. In fact it's really nice being able to fade into a fat, warm Hypersaw from a cold, digital wavetable using Osc Balance.

[marc]

Originally Posted by blay

meh.
let me just say - FINALLY.
but too little, too late really.

another 45 days eh? sure.

people made reference to Ben 'only scratching the surface'.
did anyone stop to think maybe thats all he could demonstrate without the thing bugging?
i did not see him hit one chord during the whole demo - just one note playing.

i think the point of ben's demo is to make sounds from scratch. as you can see in the build up of the demo, the hypersaw has many faces. "only" playing premanufactured sounds would certaily work but wouldn't make people understand how versatile it is. and on top of it, if i would as fast as ben in making sounds from scratch, i probably wouldn't demo with presets myself

best, marc

[Gopal]

Yeah, you can't take anything away from Ben's skills in sound designing. I would never touch a preset if I had his skills.

The video has really changed my mind in some ways, this unit really is a big step up from a virus C, there's just no two ways about it. Its a completely new beast.

I think everyone should probably show a little more patience given that this is such a groundbreaking product and the last thing anyone wants is to see it rushed into the marketplace without sufficient time to test all its functions and reliability.

Lucky for us Access provide us with free OS updates and I think they probably are gonna leave a bit of room for improvement via OS updates in the TI.

Which means, its just gonna keep getting better

[Hollowcell]

Watching the Vid for a 6th time I realize the worth of that hyper-saw. It's just that one second of tone that emiates from the thing when Ben first dials in the detune-spread. As far as the rest of the hyper-saw sound it's very "trance", but that 1 second shows a door into a heavy dark sound (more than just trance oriented) - whack on distortion, EQ and filter and I wouldn't have any trouble getting it into a mix I rekon.

Get rid of the VC vocoda and put hyper-saw on the C!!! Please .

PS..I'm glad people when people demo sounds, they run them dry. Preseted demos are fine and all, but they don't give an acturate representation of what the machine will sound like in my studio. Again, nice demo Ben.