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Great Synth Mysteries Ep. 6: There will NEVER be another Access Virus

Noir Et Blanc Vie

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Subjective opinions within, those who do not understand subjective opinion may be excused lol

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This is a love story about a synthesizer unlike many others, in my opinion a synth that came out so long ago still eclipses many releases of today. Great Synth Mystery, mmm, maybe... but I wanted to make a compelling piece about such a wonderful instrument. As a musician and not a reviewer or journalist I think this really speaks to how ahead of it's time the Access Virus Ti was.
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20 Comments

@RedMeansRecording 2 years ago Pinned

@BipTunia_Microtonal_Cats 2 years ago

Access Virus: the only keyboard used by the keyboard player in loud guitar bands that you forgot had a keyboard player.

@PianoWithYotam 2 years ago

Glad you are back brother, the YouTube community has missed you !

@tonverfall_studio 2 years ago

My desktop TI2 blows my mind every time I sit down for a sound design session. I've learned to live without the total integration and just use it as a hardware synth, which works fine.

@Andrew-K 2 years ago

Damn, that teaser at the end. A TI3 would probably reign for the next two decades.

@warpigs330 2 years ago

I think what all these synthesizer manufacturers have realized is that the long feature list isn't actually useful if the interface to access all those features isn't great. And even if the interface is great, with all those features you end up overwhelmed with choice paralysis. I have had a Hydrasynth for like 6 months and I think I have used the 4th and 5th envelope like once. There are just very very few people who actually need and use the phonebook sized featurelist of something like the virus. But we are techno-fetishists who think that a longer featurelist will make us happy. Or that we think that missing features are what is holding us back creatively.

@SchweinchenHorst 2 years ago

The Virus has such a warm natural sound i never hear in all VSTs i got. And i got em all: Diva, Ni Massive, Omnisphere etc. it always sounds big and cut through the mix and sound so unique. I love em

@zitosonic 2 years ago

"There will NEVER be another Access Virus"

Behringer, "hold my beer !"

@ultimateXsounds 2 years ago

Access was almost 20 years ahead of the competition. It's amazing what they managed to achieve. This equipment still surprises me even though I have spent thousands of hours programming it.

@audiolego 2 years ago

I'm grateful that I have the Darkstar. Oh I use it for my new track. Every track I do there's a Virus sound in there.

@meilstone 2 years ago

Most of the factory presets are already excellent, their names feature the initials of their creators (mostly internationally acclaimed, professional sound designers).

@Rhythmicons 2 years ago

In 2005 when I was drooling over the Voyager, there were only two other synths in the catalogs in that price range: The Andromeda A6 and the Acess Virus. Those were the days before the analog explosion.

@todbot 2 years ago (edited)

After wanting a Virus for 20 years, I finally got a used one last month. It is very cool and such a beast. Perhaps this is why modern synths are seemingly less capable: it's a little intimidating to have so much available in one box.

@skinlayers 2 years ago

I have a dream... of designing a Virus inspired successor based on open RISC-V chips, so it's open all the way down to the silicon. That way, in theory, we would never run into the issue with the synth's processor being discontinued. You could always take the design to another fab. I was thinking of learning embedded C++ and seeing if I could leverage Mutable Instruments' open source code as a starting point. If only I didn't need a day job...

@MarcDennis-s1c 2 weeks ago

i have to beleive the virs will be back. i have the original ti and it has never stopped being my favorite synth for the 15 years ive owned it

@christopherjansen5135 2 years ago

I’m so fortunate to actually have the 61 Access Virus Ti2. So happy to see you cover this synth. It’s hard to comprehend how resourceful and great-sounding this synth is.

@mdeerocks 2 years ago (edited)

Christoph Kemper is a genius. He revolutionized synths and guitar amplification in last decade. Kemper amplifier is still one of the best (if not the best) amp modellers on the market and all other brands are playing catch up with more than decade old hardware.

@TokyoScarab 2 years ago

I had a TI Snow back in the day and used it in some bands I was in. The thing was such an absolute monster for how little space it took up! I have a Waldorf Iridium and it has filled that void for me. It's so intuitive and visually pleasing and while it does lack polyphony and some of the shaping, it feels like you can create anything you want on it if you're clever about what you do.

@Distortic 2 years ago

Touch for Virus on iPad is my favorite editor, I think I have tried them all. It has features like copying effect stacks from one patch and applying them to another, the sequencer control is fantastic. Rather than emulating the old software, I feel it pushed patch design further and faster.