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July
8th, 2002

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Equally
comfortable in professional studios or beside a home computer, as well suited to clubs and
concerts as it is to museum soundtracks, the Virus C Desktop Synth is heir to a legendary
line of predecessors, and it inherits their incredible musical traditions with flying
colors.
Speaking of colors, the stunning new red display will captivate you every time, and we
haven't even gotten to the best parts of the instrument yet... A quintessentially vintage
modern synthesizer, the stepped-up C offers an unfathomably vast array of sonic
possibilities: 32 note polyphony, 4 oscillators, 2 filters, 3 LFOs, an expanded mod matrix
with 6 source and 9 destination slots, 98 effects, and more! Not just a simulation of
circuits, this instrument paints a stunning replica of the very detailed big picture which
gives analog and acoustic instruments their "living" sound.
And it's as user-friendly as you want a synth to be. We know that no artist wants their
tools to demand more attention than the music itself, so we rebuilt the Virus to bring
inspiration to your fingertips. It unlocks creative freedom with improved access to the
features you need, and makes music so freely you don't even need to read a manual. Let
your imagination run wild with powerful undo/redo. If you're used to synths which always
leave you wantying just a litte more you're in for a fantastic surprise: it's as if the
Virus reads your musical DNA to replicate your wildest electronic dreams.
With an unprecedented degree of synth power behind it, and the evolution of Access music
in front of it, the Virus will forever shine in your musical universe as brightly as it
does in ours. Other virtual analog synths can't touch it- we proved that with the
"a" and the "b"... What then, could be better than Virus but MORE
VIRUS!
Specifications:
- Wooden side panels
- External power supply
- Dimensions: 470 x 185 x 75 mm
- Weight: 2.85 kg, 4.6 kg with packaging
- 32 knobs
- 35 buttons
- 69 LEDs
- 32-voice polyphony with 16-part multitimbral
capability
- 1024 programs (256 User / 768 ROM / 128
Multi)
- Undo/Redo/Random features to defeat
oops and "writer's block"
- 4 oscillators per voice. 3 main plus one sub
[when all oscillators are in use, polyphony may decrease, but not by more than 6 voices.]
- Sawtooth, variable pulse, sine, triangle +
62 additional spectral waves
- FM [Frequency modulation] with or without
external Input signals
- 2 filters selectable as lowpass, highpass,
bandpass or bandreject
- 4 filter configurations (serial/ parallel)
for up to 6 poles [36 dB]
- 3 LFOs with 68 LFO shapes
- Loop or Envelope LFO modes with midi clock
sync
- 2 ADSTR envelopes [T=Time]
- 16 independent arpeggiators with numerous
arpeggiator patterns and real time parameter access/modulation including swing & note
length.
- 98 simultaneous DSP effects:
- Reverb [w. pre-delay sync to MIDI-clock]
- 3-Band EQ per program/part [low/hi shelf +
parametric mid]
- Retro Phaser [6-stage stereo phaser with 24
filter-poles
- Multiple independent
distortion/saturation/Lo-fi FX per voice, including multiple distortion/shaper
characteristics and variable gain.
- Chorus/Flanger with rate sync to midi tempo
- Simple or "Groove" Delay [preset
polyrhythmic patterns]
- 32-band advanced vocoder
- Ring Modulator
- Analog Boost for true vintage tonal
characteristics
- 2 Soft Knobs, individually assignable per
program
- Internal master clock that drives all
arpeggiators, LFOs and delay times; automatic sync to external midi clock
- Advanced Modulation Matrix with 6 source and
9 destination slots.
- Complete control via MIDI
(CC/Polypressure/Sysex) with "Adaptive Control Smoothing" for ultra soft
parameter changes and no zippering.
- MIDI Tempo sync capabilities for virtually
every time-based parameter
- Full 24-bit processing; 24 bit D/A, 18 bit
A/D
- 6 individual high quality outputs
- 2 audio inputs to process your signals
through synth filters, envelopes, FX, vocoder, FM, ring modulator, and more
- Flexible "auxiliary" model of
internal audio routing for processing/reprocessing internal/external signals through the
synth engine and and effects of other voices
- Surround sound capabilities
- Free SoundDiver Virus editor/librarian for
Windows and MacOS
- Easy operating system updates via MIDI
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