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I have to admit that when I hear the word awesome I generally tune out. Didn't hear it?? Did you watch the video? Too much talk from awesome geezers of course, but sounded pretty ok to me... Bit Like a virus tho... Did you read bad modulation somewhere? Hmmm I heard some very modular-ish modulations going on a few times, maybe it was just sequenced? Mark Sent from my (advertisement removed) On 4 Feb 2011, at 00:44, Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote: > mark francombe schrieb: >> Oh I dont know.. It looks pretty cool to me... all the things you have >mention Rainer are my FAVE synths.. but this thing looks like it could do >it all.. and did you see??? its cheap.. the Virus is still a pretty >pricy synth... > I have to admit, I don't have any experience with or knowledge of >details of the Virus. The only thing I know is that a) a lot of people >used/use them, b) according to ebay, a Virus A can be had for below $499. >> I think what you missed is that they have sampled shit loads of synths >AND given it a really modern filter section with bit reductions and >distortions and stuff.. > Yes, I missed that, both in the product description and in the manual. >Both are not very precise about this...like for the oscillators: > "You get 41 oscillator waves and 53 drum sounds sampled from the most >awesome vintage keyboards of the past four decades" > Ok, that's hardly "shit loads"...then, in the manual, it talks about >oscillator waves in "tables" - can it do wavetables? We don't know. > > I'd hardly see the filter section as impressive, and the same is true >for the effects. >> The only think I HATE HATE HATE the look of is those silly 4 knobs... >how insanely irritating... with a synth like that you gonna need at least >10! Or else, whats the point??? Its nice to see a synth with modern >sounds IN HARDWARE though... > It depends on what you do with it. The Korg Prophecy has 4 knobs, too, >and it works fine. And the mighty Oberheim XPander had 6, and what fun >you can have with those! The problem here seems that it's lacking a >proper modulation matrix. >> Still no hardware granulation synth AFAIK.. > How many grains do you need? The Kurzweils can do a fairly fun job, if >used properly... > > Summarizing: I need to note again that I, too, didn't hear that synth so >this is all just talk based on the specs and manual. However, what I fail >to see is why this synth would exactly be a very good bang for the buck - >and I'm wondering what the target market is. For a synth freak, any of my >suggestions would be better value for your money, imo. And for a beginner >that needs a cheap first synth, I'd rather go with an E-mu >short/longboard (but this may also have to do with the fact that back in >its day, I was deeply fond of E-mu's Proteus). > > Rainer > > -- > http://moinlabs.de > Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs >