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Originally Posted by Timo
I really would like to see some new emulated and creative filter types on the Virus' in future. They're the single most, biggest things that can dramatically and radically alter the sound, giving the synth entirely new flavours, effectively a new synth each time.
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What do you have in mind? I think the "analogue" filter mode is still very lush sounding even compared to "zero feedback latency" technology you see implemented on recent products. To my mind, it's one of the things Access got right from the beginning even! It's hard to find a digital synthesizer whose filters are flexible enough to get the creamy, warm or scream textures and excel in every department!
With the addition of the Vowel and Comb filters and the "Variable" ones I think they're pretty much up-to-date on that department! Just would like to see them implement Filter FM and some emulation of feedback circuitry - even though the saturation on Filter Stage pretty much manages to achieve similar results.
Would love if they decided to extend the range of the LFO's rate into audio territory, better still, full range oscillators would come handy and certainly enable us to explore new sonic territory, like more complex FM patches for example. This coupled with the "still today very unique" selectable waves for both OSC and LFO on the Virus (wonder why so many instruments only feature the most basic wave shapes for LFOs...) would make the Virus capable of virtually everything. One step further with user customizable waveforms and some sort of step sequencing thing, could be multi-stage and loop capable envelopes (or custom curves like you see on Massive) and they'd probably get the investment back by hitting on a market where Zebra and Massive and such things rule alone, for the weird modulation hunger folks in many EDM genres very popular today! On top of that, it's pretty much how it started: the Virus has always been known as a very versatile machine with tons of modulation options you hardly find anywhere else and with a couple of tweaks in the design it could very well catch up even with the latest incarnations of software synthesis. Sure enough the investment is smaller on the software side and things get complicated when retro compatibility is a factor. To my mind, they could circumvent this problem the same way they did for the filters: classic mode and selectable new modes. This could be done for the LFO section as well.