Some newbie Virus questions

[simonharris]

Wow. Any other thoughts?

[hvyen]

Hello simonharris!
The Snow is a really powerful synth! The main reason, why I personally didn't buy the Snow, is the polyphony. Because you said that you are a newbie, I will try to explain you: The Snow is a 4 part multitimbral synth and the other synths like the Ti desktop / keyboard / Polar etc.. are 16 parts multitimbral. This means, that with the Snow you can only use 4 patch sounds simultaneously for a project. With the others, 16!
The other thing is that you have less knobs and buttons and you have to beaa through the submenues. If this doesn't matter, you can go for a Snow! To say it again: The Snow has the SAME SOUND, fewer knobs, fewer voices and only 4 part multi timbrality. OK, it's cheaper than the desktop and it's really small.
I would buy the desktop version because of the 16 parts multitimbrality, but it's your decision. Perhaps you can find a comparison chart between the Snow and the TI's specifications if you use google.

Greets!