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Alexjamboree
14.05.2008, 02:58 PM
For those who owned a Virus Snow!
How many multi part does the Snow have using viruscontrol (VST)? The same 4 parts or increase to 16 parts, like the others virus TI??

It's very important to me. It`ll make me decide between the TI desktop or Snow.

Thank you.

Khazul
15.05.2008, 10:03 PM
Its four parts.

Xenious
21.06.2008, 01:23 AM
So I finally got my snow (boo ya!). Now what confuses me is that when it has one of the two DSP chips that the Desktop has and can do 10-50 voice poly why doesn't it have 8 parts instead of 4? There might be some math there in the background that makes it come down to 4, but I can't help wondering why only 4.

Has anyone from Access actually said why with half the power it only has 1/4 the parts. Maybe we can get 6 or 8 total in a future upgrade?

psy604
21.06.2008, 09:13 AM
probably ... if one DSP can do 4 parts ... two will multiply their processing power and can do 16 (4 x 4) parts :)

it always depends what patches you load ... 16 parts at once is quite theoretical.

Natspace
21.06.2008, 12:33 PM
>Alexjamboree

If you want to use your virus as VSTI, the desktop TI is not necessary because you have only 3 audio outputs usb, on the condition that to use audio outputs analogical.
The "Snow" was optimized to use these 4 parts at most, what to my opinion is not the case of the version " Destktop ", to have 16 parts for of it made play only " 4 real instruments " with all the capacities of the Virus ti, what interest?
I think that it is one of the reasons that decided on Access to create "Snow" with the advantages to have a Virus Ti nomad but with only 1 DSP

Xenious
21.06.2008, 01:58 PM
True, and the case when I thought I might need more is when doing up an analog drum kit or something (which would not take much power) then adding a bass part to it. In that case I think the snow could handle 6.

Anyways, thanks for the comments