New virus ti2 owner--is mine really new?

[Narcissus]

Originally Posted by Jeff Gibbs

Don't yet understand the multi-sequencer-patch relationship

I've been working with synths since around 1993, and one of the things i found always most irritating were the multis.

In the vast majority of past and present synths, the instruments programmed into a multimode are a reference to the sounds in single mode. That means if you have inst A17 on track 01, then you go into single mode and edit A17, next time to go into multimode you´ll find you got the "new" A17 not the old. That was a real problem, because if you needed slight variations of A17 (eg different LFO quantization) for different multis, you had to use another slot in the memory like A18.

VIRUS solves this by putting real copies of the singles into the multi (not just pointers) so if you edit one single of the multi, the variation is kept in the multi without affecting the original or the other copies you may have on other multis.