I spent a weekend recreating my favorite virus sounds using NI
Massive. Its not an exact replication, of course, but the difference
is in a certain edge massive has that I like. the TI is a going away
soon.
Software has gotten good - DAMN good, to the point that its hard to
see a reason to keep VA synths around unless they have a very
comfortable control surface. In my own setup, I am grabbing software
much more often than hardware lately for anything other than pure
analog sounds or performance oriented jamming. And its easy enough to
do while jamming now - just drag an instance of massive into live and
go - no patching, no routing, no syncing, futzing - just plug and
play. The TI promised that kind of integration, but it really just
isnt there. It just never worked stable enough to trust it, and I
ended up using the USB only for MIDI and not using the VSTi at all.
So she will be on e-bay when I get around to it.
<shrugs>
Tony
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Niall Munnelly <aleph at aleph-null.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:05:30AM -0500, Larry Pham wrote:
> > I just set a new personal record. I recently acquired a Virus TI
> > keyboard but just as quickly as I bought it, it's going to be sold this
> > Wednesday. I think this is the fastest a synth has ever cleared out from
> > my setup. It's a shame since it's a fine synth but it was just too buggy
> > and it seemed to lock up my system almost every time I used it via usb.
> > It didn't really fit in the mix with all my other monosynths anyway so
> > with the money from it, I just found a TB303, MC202 and TR606.
>
> Whoah, you absolutely traded up there {I'm not that big a
> fan of the 606, but it has its uses}.
>
> Don't look back.
>
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> Niall.
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