I got my Snow new for £660 (including the £100 money off vouchers I got free). I can't see it going much cheaper than that any time soon, irrespective of any new TI models being revealed. Particularly as I imagine any replacement for the TI range will replace the Polar/Keyboard as the 'full on' premium version, whereas the Snow will stay in its niche as the cut down/budget/portable Virus for some time yet.

I was wondering if something about a new model was in the air, given my recent experience in buying my new Virus.

I purchased my Virus Ti Kbd yesterday at Guitar Center. The keyboard guy indicated that they were no longer going to carry the Virus Ti at that particular store. The one they had was new, but had the OS 1.2.3 from Aug 06 and had been sitting since.

They put a "blowout" clearance sale price of $1319 (USD) and it was a total no brainer to buy it. I'll do the OS update today and should be golden.

That said, if a new model comes out, that will likely make a pretty big dent in any resale value for the one I just bought, but then again, considering what I paid for it, i don't see how I could get hurt.

Besides, I don't plan on selling anytime soon anyway.

Yes if anything it'll be the TI/Polar Line, not the Snow. The Snow is a nice little earner for Access I'm sure.

If a new Virus comes out, I doubt the price will go up. They will probably do what Apple does when a product line is refreshed - keep the prices similar and discount the old models until they run out of the discontinued stock. From some of the posts here it sounds like they are discounting the old Virus TI out of the pipeline already, so that would indicate a new model on the horizon.

Incidentally, technology has a great way of getting cheaper and better over time. My original Mac Quicksilver G4 tower cost me $3,200 with a 933Mhz G4 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 17" cinema display with 1280x1024 resolution. Today, you can buy a 2.8Ghz Quad-Core PowerMac with 2GB of RAM and a 20" cinema display with 1680x1050 resolution for $2,898 - and that's including seven year's worth of inflation and the staggering increases in energy costs. Taking inflation in to account at 3%/year, that's a hell of a lot more computer for about $1,000 less! :)

- max

Have they normally shifted lots of TI boxes (in the past)?

Turnkey in England was a huge retailer (primary distributor for Access in the UK) and had a mammoth clearance of Virus TIs this time last year (so much so I thought a TI mk2 was actually coming out that year), but it was simply that Turnkey was suffering from the economic nose-dive. They actually went into administration.

After it gets to a certain level, second hand viruses don't tend to depreciate further. They hold their values well as they are a respected and revered synth engine. The TI is a monster of a synth compared to the Virus C and earlier versions. $1319 is a very, very good price for new, and for what you get it is certainly worth that sum and would keep you going for years, regardless of what may (or may not) occur in the future.

Regards the Ti line.... To try to put a little of it into perspective, my guess on things, Access recently acquired www.VirusTI.com (the other forum that is no more... Actually I wonder how much it was sold for! Jammy buggers. :) ). Access would only have done that if they are/were to continue supporting the TI brand. I think the TI and any such TI mk2 would be more like siblings and their bond would be the Total Integration aspect. It appears the TI element is not going anywhere soon.

That said, the fact that Access have bought out VirusTi.com at this point in time, and that Marc stated a redesign of the Access website stands to be deployed very soon (within weeks), certainly points to an announcement at Namm.

A couple of dealers do not list the Virus TI anymore and Sweetwater has it as discontinued when you ask them. So, chances are there is a new TI2 in a week or so.

maybe the economy is slowling sales down to the point where importing the virus ti is too costly for them ?

if Access announce a new synth next week it looks like my Ti 61K is going to be up for grabs

Interesting. Well one thing's for certain - it probably won't have usb 1.0 ports.










I hope.