Just got myself a Virus A

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Hello everybody.
Good to be here..
I am Patrick from Austria and i recently bought a defective Access Virus A from Ebay.
Paid around 300 $. Nothing was working it was a real mess. First i had to fix the Value Pot because the last User didnt know how to solder and messed up all of the circuits around the Pot. Next thing was that the Power IC got to hot and the Virus turned itself off after about a Minute. I fixed this with some thermal compound and a heatsink. After that i only saw strange characters on the LCD, so i updated firmware and did a hard reset. Finally it is working and only some cosmetics to do.

Are there any good tutorials on making Music with an Access Virus A ? I only used hardware like Korg EMX and x0xb0x so far so i am not really used to PC Sequencers. I got fruity loops and midiquest XL to test it out. My OS is Windows 7 64bit.
My goal is to make psytrance with this little beauty, i know that Virus C would be a better choice but i am low on money.

I will start reading the whole manual when i got some freetime, hope i can learn all the stuff.

Are there any good things with the Access Virus A other than beeing cheap ? Compared to B,C,Ti and so on ?

I would really like to get a Acid Squelch out of the Virus A. is that even possible ? you know what i mean, that typical Psytrance sound sounding like some high pitched aliens singing along to the bassline ?!

Any help would be so highly appreciated.

Thanks for this Forum, hope it will get me towards my goals