Well, got mine delivered yesterday after a long 2 months delay of its release and the most prick tease of a demo ever
Installation could of been easier and I think will cause a lot of people problems (mainly tc support
Anyhow, got it all up and running and I can say its simply amazing. The sound is identical to a virus b and it imports patches perfectly. Even virus c sounds it will import and they sound fine even without the eq and moog filter settings some have.
Having these kind of sounds in vsti form now is a godsend, I used to (and still do) hate working with outboard hardware and audio files, recording, processing, changing stuff, re-recording, midi-chans....total pain in the arse.
My only real gripe is the polyphony count. You only get 16 voices per dsp which max out REALLY easily on large string/pad patches. I loaded megapad1 from the vengence sound incubation2, played a triad chord and ALL 16 were used with just those 3 keys, then you get that annoying sucking sound when you switch to another triad as all the voices have run out. Dont even think about using the other 3 parts for different sounds when using a big string/pad patch. Of course I can turn down the unison and take out the 3rd osc and turn off the sub osc.....but who wants to? Real bummer
And why oh why did they not change/remove the stupid global reverb/delay, it makes using it in multipart useless. This has to easily be the most hated part of any virus.
Anyhow, aside from those 2 things, the virus powercore is great. Sound is awesome and it runs pretty much flawlessly. I will be definatly getting the multidsp license when it comes out.
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