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Originally Posted by Wandering Kid
in my opinion, it sacrifices immediacy, instant playability and gratuity in favour of complexity. at first its extremely underwhelming and somewhat awkward to get anything good sounding out of it. but give it a year of fiddling every day and learning the manual inside out and you start to see some of the possibilities.
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Underwhelming? Awkward? But the Virus comes with 2176 pre-programmed sounds! How much more instant playability you want? These sounds are infinitely varied, (sometimes phenomenal), and which can also be used as templates for new sounds.
I have just got my first Virus and have found it to be both immediate and gratuitous. I just dial up another preset, grab a couple of knobs and tweak merrily away. No fiddling or learning the manual. And I've never had any need to go near the mod matrix to get a good sound.
It's also a perfect machine for trance, if indeed that's what you want. Some might even say it's 'the' definintive trance synth.
Mr O