In my opinion yes. If you enjoy making music, or hell just playing around with an awesome toy, then you will not regret the purchase.

You certainly don't need one to make awesome trance/house etc, but it definitely helps There's also the Atomizer built in to it now, which is a great DJ toy to have fun with.

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Originally posted by Tom Scott In a nutshell yes or no answer from people with experience of it, is it worth me saving up the huge amount of money to buy the Virus? Demos of it sound amazing and ive always wanted a hardware synth.

If your not really into production that much, then no. However, if your fairly dedicated then you should have a lot of fun with it!

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Originally posted by Tom Scott In a nutshell yes or no answer from people with experience of it, is it worth me saving up the huge amount of money to buy the Virus? Demos of it sound amazing and ive always wanted a hardware synth.

You are the only one who can answer that question. Obviously you are being limited in what you can do by your aging computer. You don't need a synth to fix that problem. A computer upgrade would do the trick perfectly. If you think paying whatever you are going to pay for a hardware synth because you feel limited by the software you are using then take that into consideration. I'm about to buy my first hardware synths next month, and I don't need anyone to tell me if it is worth it or not. I don't think I can get the sounds I want as quickly as I want and edit them on the fly the way I want with just software, and I've always thought analogue gear sounds better be it a guitar amp, or a synthesizer I prefer the sound. I also love the digital sounds I can get out of the synths in Logic, so I won't stop using those when I get my synths. You really have to think about it and answer the question yourself. The Virus isn't going to make your productions sound better automatically.

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I would highly recommend it. It was spendy but I have never regretted the purchase as it was worth every penny IMO. It is an amazing piece of equipment and was the turning point for me in achieving sounds I was never able to achieve without it.

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Best would be going for an intel quad core like the Q9550 or Q6600 depending on which your mobo can support. If you're AMD based the new Phenoms II is a great upgrade too. They can overclock very well if you need more speed.

You're not going to be able to run many tracks of a Virus Ti, something like 4-5 parts only unless very simple patches are used. It won't save you from cpu problems and it's a way more expensive solution to your problem.

An intel i7 setup would be pretty sweet too. Cost less than a virus ti and you'll be able to run alot more vsti's and at lower buffer size.

But if you want the virus sound and it's capabilities, a virus Ti is pretty sweet. But I wouldn't buy it just to save cpu

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Originally posted by Timothy Best would be going for an intel quad core like the Q9550 or Q6600 depending on which your mobo can support.

Yeah, I recently bought a new computer with an Intel QuadCore Q6600 and 2gm RAM. Should be upgrading it to 4gm of RAM soon hopefully as well. So far im sorted with CPU, it takes a lot of patches to start running out of cycles and by then i convert to audio anyway.

Despite only being 16, I am quite dedicated to production, I have no problems with spending the money on it i was mainly seeing whether you guys found the purchase worthwile or not. I think your replies have pretty much made up my mind

In reply to Zild, I am not really looking to purchase the Virus to help with CPU speed. The main reason I want to purchase a hardware synth is for the increased quality in sounds and the synthesis capabilities of the virus. As i said before the demos I have heard of the sounds from the Virus are amazing and just sound much richer than what I can achieve so far with software. Of course I do love some of the sounds from my software synths also, the purchase of a hardware synth would not make them obsolete of course. The abilty to change the synth paramaters live is also a large factor for me. Im sure lots of you will agree that fiddling about with a physical knob as opposed to software is much more satisfying and provides better results in the long run.

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Good deal. Sounds like you will have fun and make good use with it. Those are good reasons since you aren't buying it just to ease the load on your laptop. It will do that a little bit but of course a new computer is the best option there.

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Just one other thing, if you're going to purchase the Virus TI and have a bit extra to spend (and some more space on your desk), go for the keyboard option not the desktop only. The full keyboard really adds to the whole experience and is a beautifully crafted piece of kit. It doesn't give you any additional functionality than having a seperate midi keyboard but the keys are weighted perfectly and extremely solid along with the modulation and pitch bend.

You can also assign the knobs to any vst or reason device so you could completely get rid of an existing midi keyboard if you had one. I had a pretty decent midi keyboard before hand, well thought it was until I got the TI. IT ROCKS!! The first days entertainment value was achieved just by switching it on and off a few times!!

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Originally posted by Reno The full keyboard really adds to the whole experience and is a beautifully crafted piece of kit. It doesn't give you any additional functionality than having a seperate midi keyboard but the keys are weighted perfectly and extremely solid along with the modulation and pitch bend.

I originally went with the Desktop, but I think Renos right. Looking back now, I wish I could've saved an extra 150 or so for the Keys, Pitch bend and Mod wheel. Either way both items will do the same job and this is only my opinion...

I think it should be brought up here that the Virus TI itself has a processor limitation and will eventually choke out. Don't buy the TI to simply decrease the load on your PC. Buy it for the sounds. Otherwise upgrade / get a new PC.

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