Access Future,hardware or software or both?

[oblivion]

What is the future for Access?

I think they should go software but with a hardware controller as dongle.

What do you think?

Is Summer Namm when Access release something new? I think it is time for Access to come up with a Virus TI3.

What is their next move?

[MBTC]

Well one perspective -- if one could consider a Powercore as a dongle of sorts then the argument could be made they already have what you're suggesting.

What I found to be goofy about the Powercore solution, at least the last time I looked at it, was that it seemed they had set up the pricing model so that you were limited in how many instances of the Virus VST you could run (regardless of hardware power)... basically they tried to eliminate the cost advantage of softsynths by requiring per-instenace license for the powercore version!! Unbelievable.

With so many good softsynths over the last couple of years I think they are going to have to do something really dramatic fairly soon. Either get total integration working properly in all hosts and get issues like latency resolved, otherwise lunch gets eaten by increasingly powerful CPUs on the PC and increase in synth programming skills by softsynth makers.

I think there will always be a market for a hardware Virus, I just think the potential size of the market is shrinking. They can always continue to make a pricey hardware synth, because its got sort of a legendary-mystical-mythical place in the minds of so many, and I think in many ways it was a very important instrument in modern day electronic music, so just like Moog they can probably always have a high-end hardware product for those who play on stage and such, at a high price point (just less software based producer-types would buy it).

[Timo]

I'm not so sure if Access focus too much on Summer NAMM, similar to many other music tech companies. Usually the Winter show is the biggie.

Depends how much spare juice is left in those ol' TI DSP chips! They consistently surprise me.

[feedingear]

Timo by the time the new 'TI3' comes out, hopefully youll get your hands on a TI!

[infraction]

Originally Posted by oblivion

What is the future for Access?

I think they should go software but with a hardware controller as dongle.

You're forgetting that the virus is an instrument (as in performers buy it too), it's not just an alternative to a soft synth.

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by infraction

You're forgetting that the virus is an instrument (as in performers buy it too), it's not just an alternative to a soft synth.

Almost anything is an instrument in the right hands!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4mmc5Vadg4&feature=
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[gfb]

Originally Posted by infraction

You're forgetting that the virus is an instrument (as in performers buy it too), it's not just an alternative to a soft synth.

yep, i'm currently working on a new project where my Virus TI Polar is very much at the centre of my live performance rig

[maelstrom808]

Personally I hope they focus on improving the approach they have now. I like the TI for the fact that when I'm working at home I can offload the processing from the PC rather than have everything in the box..yet I can still unplug the USB and go play a gig or jam with someone and leave the comp at home. I'd like to see more features, more reliability, and more power. Leave the rest of it alone.

[infraction]

Originally Posted by maelstrom808

Personally I hope they focus on improving the approach they have now. I like the TI for the fact that when I'm working at home I can offload the processing from the PC rather than have everything in the box..yet I can still unplug the USB and go play a gig or jam with someone and leave the comp at home. I'd like to see more features, more reliability, and more power. Leave the rest of it alone.

I wouldn't like to see it go native anyway tbh, you'd have every warez kiddie with an internet connection abusing it after it's cracked a week after launch.

[Roby31]

Way to completely miss the point