New Record

[Larry Pham]

I had that exact feeling while playing with the NI synths. The tonal 
qualities of soft synths have greatly improved so much so that I don't 
regret putting the TI up for sale as  I know I can get the same sounds 
from software.
I like the arps on the Virus so I will have to find a replacement for 
those.

Tony Scharf wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>  --
>>  Yours,
>>  Niall.
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