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Are you still infected? My Access Virus overview...
https://synthmorph.com/blogs/news/ac...ted-synthmorph

Congrats, great article!
I really enjoy it. Cheers

Greatly written and inspiring article, thank you very much.

It reflects my feelings that the Virus is still one of (if not the) best hardware synths available today. And with the additional features of the TI, which are not even covered in your article, there's not much a Virus can't do if you know all the tricks of this wonderful machine. It certainly has it's character, but it's nonetheless incredibly versatile and far from outdated.

Really wanted those JMJ patches but can't find them on his website :(

Nearly missed them as well. The link is below the examples an called "My Virus patches in Sysex midi-files".

Nice one Oli! God knows why he didn't put them all in one bank though?

well done on that article mate! the lack of tension on this forum and activity from Access' side makes me sad on one hand... on the other it might just be the nature of today's world of ever changing short lifespan palette of products and we just got so used to things happening and happening all the time in commerce. Virus is one of the last things people made a real effort creating putting all their hearts and knowledge into, maybe the reason behind being so 'idle' is that there is nothing really much more to be added to give it another 10 years of official support, especially if those chips not going to be around for ever. I'm not a technical guy, but maybe that's why they don't invest more in its development and you know what? after 13 years of love for the Virus even without owning one am still in love and I think it's perfect as it is.
I've created a Facebook page where we could al gather together and share our stuff - now I'm finally about to buy a Ti 2 desktop :) I'm sure there are a lot of creative users out there to keep the cult alive! join me at https://m.facebook.com/virusforever/ and share your work, thoughts, pics or anything ;)

I've jut ordered my TI2 desktop from one of the local retailers in Hungary and they said the earliest to get it is december... apparently, there is a problem with Access' distribution... now it's more special: they do every order one by one like Swiss watchmakers :D :confused:

Still highly infekted, using Virus daily, can't go a day without my Virus "fix" as it were, mainly noodling rather than production, though.

The Virus is a fanatstic sounding unit, always will be, I'm just really saddened that Access have not continued to update the line to give even more sonic possibilities, especially with the rennaissance of hardware synths and separately the modern production & synthesis techniques used on VSTs over the last few years.

Yeah still love my Virus but things have moved on and the Virus hasn't sadly. So many cheaper soft synths out there that can compete with it plus many new hardware ones also...I just hope they keep up with the software updates to accomodate new DAW/computer OS updates otherwise it's back to midi/audio cables :(

If you want to try something different, try Roland Cloud and download all the synths. The Juno 106 is amazing and makes me want to buy a System 8, just for that. At first I thought it was just my affinity for the Juno because it was the first analog synth I ever owned (and remains one of the best sounding), but then I saw others are going bat shit over the stunning sound as well. Only problem is that it is a SERIOUS cpu hog. The System 1 isn't powerful enough to run it, and their hardware version (JU 06) drops it from 6 to 4 notes of polyphony, so no thanks.

At first I had no intention of paying Roland $20 per month, but then I learned that after every 12 months of membership, you get to select and keep an instrument permanently (and given how good the Juno and D-50 plugins are, it makes it a reasonable value).

I don't think the System-8 will run the D-50 plugin (perhaps because subtractive synth controls would be weird trying to control an LA synthesis engine, the D-50 needs a specialized control surface or a good software interface, which the plug-in has in droves). The D-50 was another synth that brings back great memories and I would like to permanently own so I maybe I will keep the subscription going a couple of years; they did an awesome job and without having one to compare side-by-side, it sounds indistinguishable to me.

For whatever reason, while it sounds great, the Jupiter-8 plug-in doesn't wow me quite as much as the Juno-106, but I'm almost certain I would use it if I owned a System-8 and didn't have to spend so much CPU cycle on it. I have a lot of Jupiter-like sounds covered by OPX Pro II already, so we'll see. The circuitry of the Juno, even when emulated, is just in a league of its own.

There is a 30 day free trial of Roland Cloud.

The timing of it came along just at the right time for me, with the recent spotlight on synthwave and other retro varieties.

The Virus can of course do retro sounds too, but in general it has a brighter sound (better for trancey cut through the mix stuff) and takes more work to make it sound warm and fat, IMHO. Most of the sounds I have for the Virus are not great starting points for synthwave.