Does the emulator sound less musical? I haven't compared mine side-by-side.
Access Virus c in 2024 ?
- KVRAF
- 16568 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
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- KVRAF
- 35569 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
I couldn't tell. I have to judge the emulator, of course. Yeah, it's a VSTi too, but, I meant im comparison with... well, how to call it? Native VSTi's?
What I mean with musical is that it has a big sweet spot, which is very pleasant, if you play the instrument.
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- KVRAF
- 2955 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
I’ve done the ab comparison with the Osirus vs Virus C. They are identical or so damn close it just doesn’t matter at least to me. Perhaps there is some minute difference with the digital to audio conversion on board the hardware but I can’t hear it. The Virus C is nicely tuned, it is hard to make it sound bad. Everything is somehow balanced and the output is appealing. The Osiris made me understand the synth topology more completely and my sound design using it has improved because of it. Wonderful synth, wonderful VST.
- KVRAF
- 1590 posts since 14 Jul, 2018
- KVRAF
- 16568 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
The TI and C hardware also sound different from each other.
- KVRAF
- 3263 posts since 27 Mar, 2010 from UK
- KVRAF
- 3972 posts since 13 Jun, 2014
Pretty sure the sample rate went up and people started complaining it was too clean.
I am a philistine and I love commercial music <insert favourite consumer items here>
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- KVRAF
- 35569 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
BTW, I absolutely hate it when (unlike the Virus), there is LFO/modulation smoothing happening in the synth, or the modulation rate isn't high enough.
This is the Virus first, and then Pigments, with the same wavetable ("Landing"), modulated with a sample & hold LFO:
https://soundcloud.com/chk-sound/lfo-sm ... al_sharing
The best of both worlds would be to have clicky/snappy LFO's, and a contour parameter to smoothen the transients out, if you want that.
This is just one example where synths like Pigments simply fall short. Same with the filters, envelopes (somewhat plasticky and weak sounding), low end oomph, or the filter drive. It's just all a league below something which was released almost 30 years ago now.
This is the Virus first, and then Pigments, with the same wavetable ("Landing"), modulated with a sample & hold LFO:
https://soundcloud.com/chk-sound/lfo-sm ... al_sharing
The best of both worlds would be to have clicky/snappy LFO's, and a contour parameter to smoothen the transients out, if you want that.
This is just one example where synths like Pigments simply fall short. Same with the filters, envelopes (somewhat plasticky and weak sounding), low end oomph, or the filter drive. It's just all a league below something which was released almost 30 years ago now.
- KVRAF
- 16568 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
You're right. That sounds great.