Yea that is not a bad price...
A couple of things though. The virus C is 32 voice only, not 64. And yes it can use all 32 voices to one instance or patch.
As you say, the virus powercore advertising is slightly misleading. Even with the multi-user licence you can never have more than 16 poly per sound/patch. Now 16 poly sounds a lot, but it really is not, and the virus in its current versions EATS poly when using unison and other oscs etc.
A nice pad or string patch is ruined when played anything more than a triad chord (3 notes together) as it can totally use up all 16 and sometimes more!! This is really anal as you will get the note vanishing sound as all the poly is used and needs to be cut in order to play the next set of notes.
This is one of the reasons I sold my virus powercore, its far to limiting to do anything BIG with.
Some people will say you can layer instances of the same sound as you will have the multi-licence. This is true, but its a really shitty work around and I couldnt think of anything more annoying and pain in the arse in trying to do it like this as it will never be like having more poly in the same instance at all.
Dont even get me started on the global reverb and delay, suffice to say as soon as the TI was announced mine was up on ebay and sold. I cant wait for some 80 poly loving, non affected by unison and some independant reverb/delays
But yea, thats a pretty good price for the combo you're getting....one thing Ill mention tho. Apparently the powercore element (basically the pci version) has been unofficially discontinued (may be officially announced at next weeks musikmesse with a new powercore product coming along) so thats something to think about to.
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