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Originally Posted by cynep
(you were expecting "but", weren't you?  )
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From virus line - I loved key feel in Virus kC, even TI MK1. In kC, I liked that black keys were rounded and narrower, as well as just had a very fast and expressive feel to them. But my absolute favorite virus keybed is in Polar. I'd actually place it on par, if not higher than my A-70. The keybed in TI2 just feels somewhat spongy and restrictive. Perhaps I haven't gotten used to it and need to mess around with velocity settings but the overall responsiveness of the keys just leave more to be desired. I guess this is the best I can explain it, hope it makes it little bit more clear.
And last but not least - bitch as I may, Marc, I still love Virus dearly... but I felt cheated with the original TI - a lot was promissed on paper but in reality it didn't live up to the expectations your marketing literature left us with. The pops and clicks made the synth unuseable in live set up, made working in arrangement very difficult because you had to get a take without artifacts, and you have no idea how embarassed I felt for Virus when I saw Thomas Dolby have a lock-up / crash issue with his Polar on stage, in a middle of a performance. As a Virus user I felt embarassed for him and even though he made joke of it, I saw how frustrated he was. |
hi,
no worries, you're not bitching at all and the "but" statements are more interesting for me anyway
the polar keybed is cheaper than the one of the TI keyboard. the one used in the TI1 keyboard is actually the same like in the TI2 kb, so i wonder if you received a unit with a faulty keybed. maybe you will have a chance to verify this, though i kind of doubt it.
i'm sorry that you felt cheated with the TI1. i guess we will never be able to overcome the problem of scalability and varying voice count. what i want to say is: as long as the sounds programmed are getting more and more expensive as in CPU consumption, there will always be the problem of expensive sounds. i cannot say that i have the clicks and pops problems reported on this forum but i guess my arrangements are more sparse than others.
as for thomas dolby, i felt sorry for him when i was told that his TI crashed on stage. not because he's a celeb but because the last thing you want live is a piece of equipment killing your performance. nowadays i personally consider this to be a risk which i just have to take, independently of what i use. a guitar player can break a string, a drummer can break a stick, i saw Underworld crashing their notebooks years ago and to cut a long story short - this is just the way it is when you take the risk of doing a non playback show. nevertheless we will do everything in our power to avoid crashes of course.
best, marc