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Virus C...question
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| Methodic Marble |
Ok this is simple, i recently(today) , offerd m a price for a second hand virus c ..now my question is..Is it good? the machine...isnīt the synth a little "old"(if iīm correct, date 2003).
the price is 700 euros...
what do U think ???
thanxks for any feed back |
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| Tomas_P |
| wrong forum mate... what u want is the production forum. |
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Technically its a good synth - for virtual analogue anyway. If you know how to use it.
I have had a Virus B for about 2 years and its my favourite digital synth. It can emulate a number of analogue type sounds fairly well.
Bear in mind that you dont program a Virus like you would an analogue synth. The Virus sound is all in the mod matrix and it sounds pretty until you set up the envelopes and get the modulation going. The raw saw wave is fairly weak and so is the square. Both lack alot of high frequency content and if you are looking for bright sounds you have to artificially harden them up with meticulous use of sync, satuaration and FM.
Programming the Virus is quite difficult at first and I would not recommend buying a virus C until you are very familiar with subtractive synthesis. The learning curve is steep but once you get over it, the interface is elegant and is very well designed for the purposes of making complex sounds quickly and painlessly.
If you dont know what you are doing, the Virus sounds and its a nightmare to get anything decent sounding out of it. The envelopes are linear by default and sound plain unless you recursively modulate them to get non linear envelope shapes.
The presets are interesting sound design experiments but most of them are completely unusable. Do not judge the synth on its presets. |
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