Does the Ti have Drum sounds
 

Hello out there,

I'm thinking of buying the Ti (and selling all other stuff).

does the Ti come with a Drum kit or some good Drum sounds?

tnx for the Info.

Dries

Hi Dries

There are no drum samples/PCMs on the Virus.

However, you can model electronic-based drum sounds just like you can with other synthesisers.

Yes, you'll have to design your own drum sounds, it's easy for kickdrums , hihhats and toms , much more difficult for good tr909 snares.
If you want a synth with drumsounds maybe radias could be a better solution.

tnx for your reply.

one more question. do I have all functions of the virus, when I do not connect it to a computer - f.e. edit arp patterns - or do i need the software to do that kind of stuff?

tnx in advance.

regards

dries

Editing ARP patterns is, IIRC, the only thing you cannot do on the TI itself. Everything else you can do, but not that.

tnx for the info.

You can change ARP patterns via hardware, just not make "custom" arps.
The arp editor is not all that though, its not like your missing much. You can only control note velocity and length, you still have to match it with a pattern.

You can program fairly decent 808/909 style sounds on the TI. Though none of the drum sounds presets particularly grabbed me.

You really want a pattern sequencer for drums anyway - the TI doesnt have that - just an arp.

Loads of good software drum machines around, or for hardware maybe a Korg electribe or vermona can be had for a few hundred or something like a machinedrum at the other end of the price scale which is excellent.

>>You really want a pattern sequencer for drums anyway - the TI doesnt have that - just an arp.<<

in fact I use many arp's simultaously on my virus C now in multimode (good for trance stuff) - the only sad thing about that is that I can not edit the patterns.

but if I can edit the ARP patterns, on a Ti, a kind of pattern seq. comes out isn't it?

I could save the edited patterns and then I can use up to 16 arp parts at the same time in multimode - not bad.

in fact that would just be what i'm looking for ... or am I overseeing something here.

You will need a patch for each drum - so for me that would equate to a dozen or so patches for just drums most of the time (I use an elektron machinedrum and typically alot of tracks on it) - and thats for just one drum machine type pattern... now add variations etc...

Its an OK starting point - and maybe OK if you have a software sequencer. I have used an external sequencer to sequence drum sounds on a TI - and I know someone people have used the TI's arp to do basic stuff (BD+SD+OH+CH which is still 4 arp patches).

If you want punchy kicks - then you will probably want to use non-detined unison mode as well to stack up the kicks - that starts to eat poly.