Interesting discussion. Long term lurker, first time poster, bought a Virus TI desktop around 6 months ago.
I was going to write a long essay on the journey Ive had with the synth, oscillating (get it) between thinking "this is no better than my VSTs" and "this is in a different league to my VSTs"...but Ill keep it short! IMO with good convertors on your system, VSTS such as Sylenth are pretty much identical to the Virus in terms of sound quality. So what IS the difference?
In short;
1) no other synth can generate such an incrediably wide range of sounds (the new oscillator modes took this thing to an unprecedented level)
2) no other synth does each to a generally excellent quality
3) no other synth uses hardware DSP controlled through the most beautifully designed and intuitive plug in interface
4) no other synth features on board FX of this quality
5) no other synth does all this multitimbrally across 16 parts.
That is all.
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