???????????????? OS 6.5 anyone ?????????????????????

[303lovesit]

Can anyone tell me what this new OS is like?

I mean can you notice a hell of a diffrent and is it true what they say when it says its now a totally diffrent synth!!

Anyone tried yet? your views please?

[Tinnitus]

Sorry, Mac!

It's no huge difference. There seems to be som new options in the filter edit menu, but I can't hear any difference.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

U cant hear a difference???!!!

I sure can >> http://www.access-music.de/events/10-2003/os650-2.php4

It makes a big difference imho

DS

[Tinnitus]

Well, the filters sounded good before, but I can't say they sound as much better now.

[Hollowcell]

a self resonating filter is a huge difference! the virus is much more capable of creating vintage sounds with this new filter..

tinnitus, try putting on the sounds that came with the OS that were in a different folder to the OS...(analogue filter patches directory)....then turn up the resonance (if the patch doesnt have it already that is), then turn the knob cutoff slowly on these patches...now go back to a patch that doesnt use this filter and do the same.....

hear the differnence now?

[hatembr]

these new filters are great!!!
if you turn the OSC Vol down to 0 and Rez to the max and play with Cutoff you still hear something resonating..... is that self oscillation ?

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

No thats not self oscilation. People here are getting confused between self resonating (resonant filter) and self oscilating filter.

All filters have cutoff, resonance, envelope amount etc etc. This is termed as a resonant filter.

A filter which self oscilates means when u turn the resonance up u can hear an audiable sine wave >> http://www.macbethstudiosystems.com/mp3s/Filter%20Sine%20Wave.mp3 This sine wave can then be modulated by additional lfo's etc etc. Self oscilation is a useful tool and created additional movement in ur synth sounds.

DS

[ben crosland]

[A filter which self oscilates means when u turn the resonance up u can hear an audiable sine wave >>
DS[/quote]

So this describes exactly what happens when you turn up the resonance in the new filters. i.e. the new filters *are* self-oscillating, and the effect that hatember describes is exactly this.

[udenjoe]

This sine wave can then be modulated by additional lfo's etc etc.

How would you go about doing this in the Virus?

[ben crosland]

This sine wave can then be modulated by additional lfo's etc etc.

How would you go about doing this in the Virus?

You need to modulate the Cutoff frequency of both Filters, so LFO2 would be the most logical choice here. Don't forget that if you want the moog ladder to remain consistent, you must modulate both Filters by the same amount, even when Cutoff Link is ON.

[Hollowcell]

the more i play with this new filter, the more i realize what a great upgrade this is!! thanks access.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

OK ive just seen that these new filters DO self oscilate......thats cool!

I have a feeling that some more filter types (Classic Roland, Oberheim) maybe included in future OS updates. This would be really cool :)

DS