Second hand Virus C or a new dual core pc? which would you choose?
Right, ok, so I posted a queery about Dual core pc's the other day and I askewd people whether they valued software over hardware last week, but I'm in a bit of a pickle trying to make my mind up over what to spend my hard erned money on.
At the moment, I have a pc with 2.4GHz processor, 1 gig ram. I use Sonar 5, Reason 3 and a few VSTi's. I also have a Novation KS rack.
Do you think I'd be better spending my money on a second hand Virus C or using the same money to buy a pc with dual core Pentium d 2.66GHz processors x 2. It also has 160 Gig Hard drive and some audio applications bundled. The computer would be about £180 cheaper and I could use the extra money to buy Absynth 3 and FM7 which are half price at the moment.
Both would be about the same price, give or take a few pounds.
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Aug-02-2006 15:54
jahnlay
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Johannesburg
New computer, you can come as close as **** to recreating the Virus C sounds with samples and a good sampler, plus you already have a good synth.
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
i'd say you go for the synth... pc prices drop very fast... i'm sure you'll be able to get that pc with a much cheaper price in the next few months. synths on the other hand are not... their price don't drop that much... and it's a hardware for life :P besides, you could still use the pc you using right now temporarily until u save that money to get another new pc, to play with your virussSsssss
Aug-02-2006 16:41
Speactra
Oltha
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Uppsala , Sweden
The virus of course
As Leng said, you can get a pc like that much cheaper very soon
virus. no vst on the best pc ever will come close for a good few years yet
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Aug-02-2006 18:53
deceptikon
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1 mother******
Dude get the synth. Hardware is so stupidly fun. I used to have a Virus C, sold it to buy my decks. One of my biggest mistakes ever.
Aug-02-2006 21:28
Rusty O'Hara
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Here, Now
Virus C.
As others have said, PC's are cheap.
I guess if you are really struggling with your computer falling over and you really need a new DAW to get your shit done, then that would take precedence. But looking at your specs, there should be no reason why that is happening.
Aug-04-2006 23:55
ralpheeee
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Adelaide, Australia
virus 4 sure!!!
Aug-05-2006 03:16
pixxxan
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Tabasco
yeah , only get the new pc if ur current one is being a bitch....
if not , well u can do almost al ur synths in the virus so u dont load ur cpu with vst instruments....
second thought dual core pc sounds neat.... mmmm
hard choice!
Aug-05-2006 04:00
David Adams
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Texas, USA
Hey guys. Quick question.
If you have an external keyboard like the Virus, how do you use that with your DAW? All I have is VST/DXi virtual instruments and an external MIDI keyboard controller.
I'm assuming you get your DAW to control your Virus during playback and have the sound output of the Virus connected to the input of your soundcard to be recorded as pure audio into your DAW? For input, you would just use the Virus itself.
Am I correct? I don't have any experience doing this thus my doubt.
Originally posted by David Adams
Hey guys. Quick question.
If you have an external keyboard like the Virus, how do you use that with your DAW? All I have is VST/DXi virtual instruments and an external MIDI keyboard controller.
I'm assuming you get your DAW to control your Virus during playback and have the sound output of the Virus connected to the input of your soundcard to be recorded as pure audio into your DAW? For input, you would just use the Virus itself.
Am I correct? I don't have any experience doing this thus my doubt.
In cubase sx3 you can add a synth when you use the external instruments, pressing F4. That way you can use it inside the DAW environment which is really one of the greatest new features of cubase. Another possibility would be to route the output to a mixer and also connect the pc outputs to that mixer, that's the (oldskool) way I work.
Ontopic: I'd go for the virus TI, it's awesome. Stretch your budget a little, it's completely worth the money.
