Forgot to tell that the Korg Legacy Collection is also a part of our studio and the MS20 controller looks really nice (got to place new photos
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The Varios8 (jup/jun emulation) is a very nice (soft?)synth.
I don't know how it performs compared with a Jupiter 8 since I never touched a real jupiter. However I happen to like the Varios emulation a lot. The only thing I miss is self oscillation.
About other applications on the Varios.
On this moment there are several available.
First there are the Varios 8 and the Varios 303 (tb 303 emulation).
They are completely free and they do a good job on what they suppose to do.
Then we have the commercial applications that are available.
There are 2 of them, VC-1 and VC-2.
The VC-1 is a Complete D50 on a PC-card. It comes complete with a computer based editor and that works fine. It also comes with 384 preset patches, 512 user patches and 28 new waveforms.
For sound examples
http://www.roland.com/products/en/VC-1/demos.html
The other application is the VC-2 Vocal designer.
A demo can be found at harmony central
http://trio.harmony-central.com/ramg...Roland-VC-2.rm
Sure I hope there will be more and interesting applications for the Varios, but so far I am pretty happy with my Varios.