Simple question. Which one would you prefer for all kinds of trance sounds? If you have used one of them or preferably both, which one do you like better and why? I'm in the situation of probably getting one of these and would like to hear any comments or suggestions.

Virus Ti surely has better presets and the Vengeance soundsets are very nice too. Would I be able to get these kind of modern trance sounds out of Andromeda with ease? I have used JP and Nova for few years so I'm not a total newbie on designing patches.

If you want all kind of trance sounds, TI without any doubt.

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Ive never used the Andromeda, but the Virus Ti, despite the not so perfect analogue is the greatest synth for trance, hands down.

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i heard a lot of cases where the a6 would malfunction, barely any with the ti.

Ti is damn hard to program though, anyone know if the Andromeda is as well?

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Originally posted by verdonsky Ti is damn hard to program though, anyone know if the Andromeda is as well?

lol
you want them to program a "make a great sound" button or what?
With the virus control it's a dream to program, you get the best of both worlds.
I know that you have to go trough some menus in standalone, then again, there are not much synths that have a knob per function. Even then I find the lay-out to be rather good.

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*Compared to jp8000

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Originally posted by msz i heard a lot of cases where the a6 would malfunction, barely any with the ti.

A friend of my went thrue 2 units, third one lasted for cuple more months, but he sold it. He said he never had so much problems with a synth before. Must of been a bad batch or something.. But it was enough for him to sell it..

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Originally posted by verdonsky Ti is damn hard to program though, anyone know if the Andromeda is as well?

the a6 is MUCH harder to program than a TI. it has a lot of submenus beside the direct knob funtions on the front.

Thanks for the comments!

The only reason I'm interested in Andromeda is of course the fact that it's analog. No VA can beat analog sound-wise with similar specs imo. But may come VERY close, even so that it doesn't matter anymore. Well, of course all synths have their own sonical character, but looking at the absolute sound quality..

Then of course, Virus has much more voices and features, so feature-wise it's a no brainer. The ease of programming is important too, and though Anrdomeda looks pretty, just thinking about tweaking the first sounds out of it makes my head hurt. Virus looks like it would be easier to learn to program.

Also, I don't actually need another keyboard at the moment, there's hardly even room for it in my home studio. So it seems Virus Ti desktop would be a better choise.

Then again, I must wonder if I should get S/H Virus C off the eBay and spend the money I'd save on something else..like the Creamware Minimax I've been wanting to buy for it's snappy envelopes and great warm bass sounds.

Can the Andy play 16 sounds at once?

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Originally posted by mysticalninja Can the Andy play 16 sounds at once?

Yes, it's 16 voice polyphonic, 2+2 osc / voice, 16 part multitimbral and you can use all 64 oscillators on one voice in unison mode, or divide them any way you like between the 16 parts. Also each oscillator can play all the available waveforms at the same time.