Before you guys ask I can't share the Firmware, BUT maybe if you google it you might find some lurking in the depth of the interwebz lol Also my opinion on the Virus might be biased since I hold that synth pretty close to my heart haha Probably one of the best sounding plugin ever made...change my mind! haha
It totally holds up to the modern day staples. That’s how far ahead of the game Kemper always was. His amp profiler is still basically the same tech he released in 2011, just refined.
@@Tonepusher or a synth profiler ;) like one that has an FPGA circuit for component modelling of various synth chips. That’s the concept of the Osirus team. They modeled the Motorola DSP chip that the Virus B and Waldorf Q used, so it is an emulation of that, like a console emulator, and the synths being ROMs like games and presets being like save states
I found it on a message board. Access' site is down and wayback still tries to make you login to get the downloads XD It was a matter of narrowing down the search terms to use >_> tempted to share but I don't want to risk Access trying to get the post deleted...
Haha! tbh I recorded the video first and then when I edited it I was like...wait a minute, that sounds too much like him and then I checked the User Manual and saw Xenomorph Productions hehe IMO your presets were the best on that thing and still are. Love your work 🤘
F U ACCESS ! You could be making so much money from a software synth version . You already have it but don’t want to give it to us unless we already own an ACCESS VIRUS ?! You want us to buy a virus but that’s the whole point of a software synth is to emulate for a fraction of the price of hardware . Stop being stingy and give I to us . Shit I’d even pay 3 or 4 hundred dollars for it without complaint . Give it to us ! NOW !
Hello @CyberneticHalo. I'm working with a Mac too. Can you tell me where the Access plugin installer places the ROM, what's the filename, and where the ROM needs to be moved?
Emotional!!!! No other word for it!!! Without a doubt, the finest synths ever to exist!!!! Be great if they made this properly available!!!!!!!! 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌
just got mine and it felt like just yesterday when I had my cute little Snow on the desk. Never should have sold it, but this is so damn close, that I am completely happy now.
@@Tonepusher well the waveforms slightly differ on a scope but in a blind test it's impossible to know which is which. Now I'm going to make a Virus sample pack.
Also the same team do a Waldorf Micro Q emulation, Waldorf have the firmware available for free download so you can have a plugin supported for free.... and it sounds better than the Virus in my opinion
As someone who has a TI destop, its been my centerpiece for over a decade. I love that when kemper dropped the ball the mod community has essentially pirated it. Its kinda a gray area sure, but it was abandoned by its creator.
It's sad that they just abandoned the Virus. But I guess that the rise of plugins was hard on Digital synths companies. He knew that eventually someone could copy that sound. Anyways, I feel like if they reboot the company and sell softwares it would sell like hot cakes hehe
Access could probably make a small fortune if they decided to sell the firmware, if they're not planning to produce hardware synths again. Yeah, I know you can get the ROM in "less legal" ways, but I'd rather throw them some money for it. Maybe they'll partner with the OsTIrus team. Maybe that's wishful thinking. 😄
Yeah they TOTALLY should do that. It's very sad that they don't make synths anymore. Loved my Snow. At the time it was so innovative, being able to use it as a ''plugin'' with the usb cable was a game changer tbh. If they partner with them I'm the first in line to buy it hehe
@@Tonepusher Maybe they'd like to hire someone to figure out how to get revenue from the gold mine they're sitting on without investing much money. I could use a side gig! 🙂
This is very cool. I bought a VirusTI2 in 2018. Too bad this wasn't out back then but it's not like I regret buying the beast! :D I may have to play with this though...
Yeah It's funny that I hear about this thing the week I'm shopping for a Ti Snow lol But you know what it's such an iconic synth that I feel like even if there's a VST that sounds exactly like it, it's a nice piece to have in a collection. And by the way prices are going down big time right now because of OsTIrus...I feel like people will regret selling these one day.
Here's a cool trick: If you have the original ROM for the Virus B or C drop them into your OSTIrus folder and then import the SYX or MID banks into your Presets folder, and now you'll have the best of all 3-worlds inside one plugin and switch the presets on the fly in the browser! How cool is that?
@@Tonepusher I hope in future updates, it allows the use of other ROMs. I tried dropping both FM7 ROMS into the folder but it wouldn't display any of the cartridge files in the preset folder. I'm just stoked about the opportunities this technology provides and can't wait for other legendary synths to get the same treatment.
Tried it since I had TI back in a days and find the firmware on my backup hdd.. Don't know...sounds like the virus, but it has THAT sound which is so recognisable....
The best way to use this with a daw due to its power hungry nature is to make whatever bassline, melody, etc and then sample it and then delete the vst from your project(not your computer). Its an awesome synth but super powerhungry, very heavy on the CPU
I haven't had that experience at all. In both Bitwig Studio and Ableton I've had multiple instances open and it barely touched my CPU. Maybe you're having some kind of hardware/software conflict.
hello, when I click on "Load preset" and add a file from the Virus banks folder. for example *.MID or *.SYX files writes this:The selected file contains more than one patch. Please add this file as a data source in the Patch Manager instead. Go to the Patch Manager, right click the 'Data Sources' node and select 'Add File...' to import it. where to enter? what to click on? Thanks!
Sounds sick! Love how the snappy envelopes and the filter bites into the oscillators. And as expected, the pads are just gorgeous! Have you tried Viper (Virus VST emulation)? I'm always on the look out for a Virus but I've become a bit of an analog snob so I think I'll stick to Viper and Nexus because they cost me a shitton of money as well 😂
Haha yeah well lately I do tend to use analog stuff when it comes to hardware synths. I didn't try the Viper yet, I mean everybody is telling me to try it so maybe I should haha Seriously there's nothing like the sound of the real Virus. That ''woody'' texture of the bass sounds is so satisfying haha Idk, might be the nostalgia in me that's talking too lol😂
@@Tonepusher Well, you have an actual Virus in software now, so maybe there's no point in trying the Viper but for those who don't have access to the original firmware, Viper is probably a good contender when it comes to getting a Virus type of character. I agree though, nothing beats the original stuff!
@@Tonepusher As far as I know it is and it can even load official Virus banks from the hardware machine. Though it has nothing to do with Access, so it's an independent dude or team of devs who developed the software VST.
Good thing I physically have mine right next to me.. Was just thinking about this when I saw the Virus website was taken down and left with a "security banner."
@@Tonepusher It was temporary apparently.. I thought the end was nigh. I seriously thought Kemper had just tossed in the towel. I hope they make a successor someday, but for me, I bought mine a few years ago, so it's still under warranty but I kept wondering with the lack of Mac M SoC support and all that.. would it eventually be gone gone? This plugin is going to ensure the virus exists for as long as possible. In other news.. I think the forums were killed off. The URLs to the forum all send you back to the Virus site.
Virus TI is discontinued and no shops selling it left. Access music is kind of closed, isn't it? Anyway I have a little "snow" version, so I managed to get a firmware from it and VSTize it because native VSTi has a buggy interface not working with screen scale factor in my Cubase
Yeah Kemper is the only thing that's left from Access Music, I think? I mean selling high priced synths in the early 2000/10"s probably wasn't the most profitable business haha The market has changed and I think they could come back pretty strong. The Snow is a GREAT synth tbh. I regret selling mine big time.
@@Tonepusher I think Kemper have to get strong to stand in guitar fx market fight with NeuralDSP. AXE and Boss are almost losing it. However, Virus still rocks! I still use it in live gigs, one of the best for dark electro music. I hope Access will raise again :)
@@Tonepusher Just gathered with some guys a couple of months ago and making Hocico-ish music. So, we are not famous :) However, I dig EBM and other similar genres since 2005, but only as a hobby.
DUDE you nailed the Goa vibe with the Nitzer.. I have been trying for so long to get that same sound & here you are doing it.. what notes you using? & what have you done to it to get it sounding that good? I have been playing this all day.. & Im not even close! Bloody magic.
Haha thanks man! well the short answer would be, I've been doing this for 20 years every day. 🤯 But my advice would be...when you sound design, it's the small details that makes a big difference at the end. Also what I notice is that people tend to open up the cutoff too much or put too much distortion etc... Multiple small details that adds up and make a big difference. For the notes, well tbh, I do it by ears haha I guess you should load up the track into your DAW and replicate the notes!
@@Tonepusher i started making tracks back in 99. I had a break in 2015 till now. Been getting back into the flow. I will keep playing as even if you never get what you are maiming for you have fun along the way
@@fallenleaf24 Exactly man, to have fun is the goal number one hehe It's a long journey. I make about 20 shitty tracks for one good lol We all have different ways of working. But even when I make shitty tracks, I learn something for the next one!
@@Tonepusher 100% thats the way it goes. I have no idea what else you did to the patch.. but I have narrowed the nots to a F xD & then there is the matter of the distortion.. sounds like a fold back.. but either way what I have is not even close xD
LOL I have similar issue trying to recreate the old Goa sound. it seems like the Goa sound is a closely guarded secret. you have to join the clan to get the secret knowledge of the Goa sound. no one ever shares the secrets of that old sound! I stoped asking & I grew up there, I hung out with with all the big names & not once did the secret sauce get leaked. The best advice I have is to keep trying & stop asking as you wont get any help from people. So unless you stumble upon the way you are screwed. I have been asking since 96 & all you get is the same.. anyway im salty because the Goa sound is very unique & I do wish it was more popular but given how hard it is to learn from those that know I can see the genre dining off.. & we will be left with nothing more than forest FM -.- I never used the distortion thing out. but yo know thats life, I have managed to get some of the 303 stuff but never managed to nail the sound message me dude I will share what I have with ya if you need. Peace
Haha thanks man, well I didn't think about that. But I could totally share it, I don't mind! :) I'll wrap that up probably this week end and share it next week. 🤘
@@Tonepusher thanks man, that would be great and actually really helpful for the ones who are not that good with music theory so they can analyze how certain melody patterns are made looking at these files :D
@@Tonepusher not at all...was a love hate. Was my first hardware synth in 2007 and was a gift. Thats was the reason why was hard to sell but if was not the sentimental value that thing did not aged well and the lack of support by the brand that initially was the main selling point really pissed me off. also it had psu issues so yeahhh...I think it's a matter of time until we see it selling below 500. Was cool synth in 2007 the same way MC303 was a nice drum machine in the 90s 🤣
@@chadduncan9716 100%, idk what type of music you're making but it can do it all tbh. And in 20 years of making music I've never heard something similar to a Virus.
@@Tonepusher got it! Strange thing is that I get different sounds with these presets than you...but more or less the synth is working on my Mac with Logic :)
Maybe it's my nostalgia that is talking but I'd prefer an Hybrid synth like the evolution of the Snow maybe. But I 100% agree, they should at least release it as a software.
Tbh I never tried Viper, but the thing is that OsTIrus sounds exactly like the original Virus so I'd say that yeah it's better...if you want that sound.
@@Tonepusher it doesnt sound exactly like it.. ir IS it.. the emulation isnt of the virus its of the chip that runs the virus firmware.. visa vi, it is the VIRUS.
Viper is really great AND fully legal, and it uses wavetables from Virus with permission. Definitely not the same as a Virus but an excellent synth no matter what.
Access could have just updated the plugin for m1 silicon instead they cheaped out and somone came alone and totally reverse engineered the shark processors and then built a taylor made gui on top of a virus ti code emulator. The usual suspects developers did more in 4 years than access did in a decade if not longer... Its kind of karma if you ask me.
@@Tonepusher I don't know much about coding either but what these developers are doing is taking synyhs that use the Motorola sharc processors and basically reverse engineering the code to be read on x86 and arm64 processes which are basically just modern day personal computer architectures. Since any digital hardware architecture can usually be understood as a computational framework, anyone who has the time and resources can build the same virtual framework inside a computer with the caveat that the developer should need to understand how both work which is easier said than done. Considering Christophe Kemper developed the virus TI to communicate front to back with computers, I have to assume these developers chose the Motorola chip because of already demonstrated real world communication and integration with x86 (common windows PC) architectures. Christoph Kempwr the maker of the virus stopped updating the software for the ti and so anyone who owned one and used it on a Mac stopped being able to run it on new Mac's forcing people to look for things like this. The silver lining for Kemper and access music is this will likely force them to release a new virus model out of fear that this is going to tank any old virus revenue... Interesting indeed.
I guess it's what you like yourself in terms of genre/sounds. Like mentioned it's that 2000's - 2010's Industrial and EBM synth. I never liked that new Industrial harsh square wave/saw tooth sound and more like a late 80's/early 90's EBM sounds guy so it's not really in my ball park either. it seems to have some nice lush pads though which peaks my interest in it a bit more. Makes me wonder about the softer sounds/plucks/leads it can be capable of 🤔
@@kenn_foxx5563 Well I think it was associated with that sound because of the era it came out, and the factory presets. Tbh, that thing can make any type of sound. I'm also a huge 80s-90s industrial fan.
PROMOTING FREE OR PROMOTING PIRACY ???? It certainly is not free to own a Ti and to correct you in the description you wrote VIRUS TI emulation which it is not..... They emultated the DSP chips from Motorola and the ORIGINAL firmware is not emulated but simply runs on the emulated chips......
There's more to it than just emulating one chip. They made a whole UI around that emulated chip - a different one for each in the series - and a synth is never just one chip.
Well, they made it knowing that the Firmware is going around online...hehe And it's free too, why all the hate? haha And my guess is that they'll partner with Kemper/Access at some point too.
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Before you guys ask I can't share the Firmware, BUT maybe if you google it you might find some lurking in the depth of the interwebz lol
Also my opinion on the Virus might be biased since I hold that synth pretty close to my heart haha Probably one of the best sounding plugin ever made...change my mind! haha
It totally holds up to the modern day staples. That’s how far ahead of the game Kemper always was. His amp profiler is still basically the same tech he released in 2011, just refined.
@@apoplexiamusic 100% agreed he's a genius tbh. Let's start a petition so he makes another Virus! 🤣
@@Tonepusher or a synth profiler ;) like one that has an FPGA circuit for component modelling of various synth chips.
That’s the concept of the Osirus team. They modeled the Motorola DSP chip that the Virus B and Waldorf Q used, so it is an emulation of that, like a console emulator, and the synths being ROMs like games and presets being like save states
I found it on a message board. Access' site is down and wayback still tries to make you login to get the downloads XD
It was a matter of narrowing down the search terms to use >_>
tempted to share but I don't want to risk Access trying to get the post deleted...
@@Emily_M81 I found it on a little website starting with arch[…] and ending with org
I had seen the download before and was mildly interested. You pushed me over the top and I went for it. WOW! So glad I did, thanks much!
You had me go HAH! at 4:23. That is one of my presets that comes shipped with the Virus. Cheers.
Haha! tbh I recorded the video first and then when I edited it I was like...wait a minute, that sounds too much like him and then I checked the User Manual and saw Xenomorph Productions hehe IMO your presets were the best on that thing and still are. Love your work 🤘
Should've known. Do you think your Icon of Coil presets will work with this plugin?
F U ACCESS ! You could be making so much money from a software synth version . You already have it but don’t want to give it to us unless we already own an ACCESS VIRUS ?! You want us to buy a virus but that’s the whole point of a software synth is to emulate for a fraction of the price of hardware . Stop being stingy and give I to us . Shit I’d even pay 3 or 4 hundred dollars for it without complaint . Give it to us ! NOW !
Hey Seb, small world :P
Kewls. Didn't know that. Any Presets I should look out for by name?
Just dug up my real TI Snow and connected and found it very good. Then I found this. Very happy.
Holy crap was able to follow the instructions found the firmware works perfectly on my MacBook Pro and Ableton holy smokes thank you so much.
haha yeah man! have fun 🤘🏻
Hello @CyberneticHalo. I'm working with a Mac too. Can you tell me where the Access plugin installer places the ROM, what's the filename, and where the ROM needs to be moved?
Holy balls thank you! I've got it installed and working and it's beautiful.
hell yeah! no problem man! 🤘
thank you thank you for sharing . took a bit to get going but it was worth it
Emotional!!!! No other word for it!!! Without a doubt, the finest synths ever to exist!!!! Be great if they made this properly available!!!!!!!! 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌
agreed 100% haha it's SO sad that they stopped....
I think I'm on the right channel! Thank you very much for your great information! I follow you!
hey thanks for the support :) 🤘🏻
I love you mentioned Hocico :)
haha yeah I love early Hocico! To me their Virus Ti live setup is iconic hehe 🤘🏻
I primarily make drum & bass and i love the Osirus plugin it has that unique top end of the the Virus B/Classic i used to have
can you share the firmware file? i need virus emulation so bad lol
Thank you very much Sir!. This plugin works great on my MacBook Pro running in both Logic and Cubase.
haha yeah that thing is amazing!
⚡👍 OMG I love these sounds! Thx for this, bruv.
haha yeah np 🤘
@@Tonepusher 🤓Good man. ;)
just got mine and it felt like just yesterday when I had my cute little Snow on the desk. Never should have sold it, but this is so damn close, that I am completely happy now.
haha SAME! I've watched videos where people compare the two and there's no difference at all.
@@Tonepusher well the waveforms slightly differ on a scope but in a blind test it's impossible to know which is which. Now I'm going to make a Virus sample pack.
@@Tonepusher BTW I have some of your sample packs, you're a 🐐 brother. Thanks.
Also the same team do a Waldorf Micro Q emulation, Waldorf have the firmware available for free download so you can have a plugin supported for free.... and it sounds better than the Virus in my opinion
Yeah I've seen that. The Q is also a HUGE classic in my book. I'll check that out.
Отлично! Спасибо за инфу Oh thanks)
no problem man :) 🤘
As someone who has a TI destop, its been my centerpiece for over a decade. I love that when kemper dropped the ball the mod community has essentially pirated it. Its kinda a gray area sure, but it was abandoned by its creator.
It's sad that they just abandoned the Virus. But I guess that the rise of plugins was hard on Digital synths companies. He knew that eventually someone could copy that sound.
Anyways, I feel like if they reboot the company and sell softwares it would sell like hot cakes hehe
Just picked up : dark electro : Electro body and 90's Industrial
Nice : good stuff my brother
Cheers 🥂
hey thanks a lot man! 🤘
@@Tonepusher 🍻🍻
Access could probably make a small fortune if they decided to sell the firmware, if they're not planning to produce hardware synths again. Yeah, I know you can get the ROM in "less legal" ways, but I'd rather throw them some money for it. Maybe they'll partner with the OsTIrus team. Maybe that's wishful thinking. 😄
Yeah they TOTALLY should do that. It's very sad that they don't make synths anymore. Loved my Snow. At the time it was so innovative, being able to use it as a ''plugin'' with the usb cable was a game changer tbh.
If they partner with them I'm the first in line to buy it hehe
Unfortunately it seems like Christoph Kemper is too busy making tons of money with the Kemper to care about Access anymore :(
Yeah I don't have any numbers to back that up but my feeling is that the guitar market is MUCH bigger haha And Kemper is well established by now.
@@Tonepusher Maybe they'd like to hire someone to figure out how to get revenue from the gold mine they're sitting on without investing much money. I could use a side gig! 🙂
@@scottnelle haha! dream job
This is very cool. I bought a VirusTI2 in 2018.
Too bad this wasn't out back then but it's not like I regret buying the beast! :D
I may have to play with this though...
Yeah It's funny that I hear about this thing the week I'm shopping for a Ti Snow lol But you know what it's such an iconic synth that I feel like even if there's a VST that sounds exactly like it, it's a nice piece to have in a collection.
And by the way prices are going down big time right now because of OsTIrus...I feel like people will regret selling these one day.
Here's a cool trick:
If you have the original ROM for the Virus B or C drop them into your OSTIrus folder and then import the SYX or MID banks into your Presets folder, and now you'll have the best of all 3-worlds inside one plugin and switch the presets on the fly in the browser!
How cool is that?
that is VERY cool haha this plugin SHOULD be released by Access seriously...They lose SO much money. (or make more by selling guitar amps lolll)
@@Tonepusher I hope in future updates, it allows the use of other ROMs. I tried dropping both FM7 ROMS into the folder but it wouldn't display any of the cartridge files in the preset folder.
I'm just stoked about the opportunities this technology provides and can't wait for other legendary synths to get the same treatment.
Wow! Thanks Dude!
hey np man! 🤘
Tried it since I had TI back in a days and find the firmware on my backup hdd.. Don't know...sounds like the virus, but it has THAT sound which is so recognisable....
well now i know how to get the riff from my fave combi song xD
hahaha exactly
Megathanks for including 'Hocico' at the 07:00 mark!
haha no problem man :) 🤘
this is not an access virus emulation, this is an emulation of dsp 56300 chip.note that it sounds identical to hardware virus
Well it's the chip that was used in the Virus isn't it? Therefore it's a Virus emulation? haha
The best way to use this with a daw due to its power hungry nature is to make whatever bassline, melody, etc and then sample it and then delete the vst from your project(not your computer). Its an awesome synth but super powerhungry, very heavy on the CPU
I haven't had that experience at all. In both Bitwig Studio and Ableton I've had multiple instances open and it barely touched my CPU. Maybe you're having some kind of hardware/software conflict.
It is the Hocico prime sound.
early Hocico is SO good haha
@@Tonepusher Man, Forgotten tears, especially Scars is still the shieeeeet :)
@@djgnu haha yeah Wrack And Ruins is my jam 🕺
hello, when I click on "Load preset" and add a file from the Virus banks folder. for example *.MID or *.SYX files writes this:The selected file contains more than one patch. Please add this file as a data source in the Patch Manager instead.
Go to the Patch Manager, right click the 'Data Sources' node and select 'Add File...' to import it.
where to enter? what to click on?
Thanks!
Sounds sick! Love how the snappy envelopes and the filter bites into the oscillators. And as expected, the pads are just gorgeous!
Have you tried Viper (Virus VST emulation)? I'm always on the look out for a Virus but I've become a bit of an analog snob so I think I'll stick to Viper and Nexus because they cost me a shitton of money as well 😂
Haha yeah well lately I do tend to use analog stuff when it comes to hardware synths. I didn't try the Viper yet, I mean everybody is telling me to try it so maybe I should haha Seriously there's nothing like the sound of the real Virus. That ''woody'' texture of the bass sounds is so satisfying haha Idk, might be the nostalgia in me that's talking too lol😂
@@Tonepusher Well, you have an actual Virus in software now, so maybe there's no point in trying the Viper but for those who don't have access to the original firmware, Viper is probably a good contender when it comes to getting a Virus type of character. I agree though, nothing beats the original stuff!
@@SYNDRONE True! could be interesting too to compare the Viper to the OsTIrus hehe Is the Viper an ''''''official'''''' Virus clone?
@@Tonepusher As far as I know it is and it can even load official Virus banks from the hardware machine. Though it has nothing to do with Access, so it's an independent dude or team of devs who developed the software VST.
oh cool! Well like you said now that I have the real thing 🤷🏻♂️ haha
Good thing I physically have mine right next to me.. Was just thinking about this when I saw the Virus website was taken down and left with a "security banner."
Seriously? I didn't see that, here the website is still up and running 🤔
@@Tonepusher It was temporary apparently.. I thought the end was nigh.
I seriously thought Kemper had just tossed in the towel. I hope they make a successor someday, but for me, I bought mine a few years ago, so it's still under warranty but I kept wondering with the lack of Mac M SoC support and all that.. would it eventually be gone gone? This plugin is going to ensure the virus exists for as long as possible.
In other news.. I think the forums were killed off. The URLs to the forum all send you back to the Virus site.
Virus TI is discontinued and no shops selling it left. Access music is kind of closed, isn't it? Anyway I have a little "snow" version, so I managed to get a firmware from it and VSTize it because native VSTi has a buggy interface not working with screen scale factor in my Cubase
Yeah Kemper is the only thing that's left from Access Music, I think? I mean selling high priced synths in the early 2000/10"s probably wasn't the most profitable business haha The market has changed and I think they could come back pretty strong.
The Snow is a GREAT synth tbh. I regret selling mine big time.
@@Tonepusher I think Kemper have to get strong to stand in guitar fx market fight with NeuralDSP. AXE and Boss are almost losing it. However, Virus still rocks! I still use it in live gigs, one of the best for dark electro music. I hope Access will raise again :)
Yeah that thing is a Dark electro classic haha I'm curious what's the name of your project? :)
@@Tonepusher Just gathered with some guys a couple of months ago and making Hocico-ish music. So, we are not famous :) However, I dig EBM and other similar genres since 2005, but only as a hobby.
@@AcyMood nice man! I love Hocico especially the ''old'' stuff until Wrack and Ruins ... and of course Signos De Aberracion, what a GREAT album hehe
My PC is too old impossible to play it 😢 soon i have to buy Core i7 13TH, can't wait 🎹🔥
yeah I opened like 8-10 of them and my cpu was fine. I have a good computer but nothing crazy. It's actually well designed tbh.
best channel . thanks !!!!!
hey! no problem haha 😊
@@Tonepusher no works in mojave dude..... cry.......
aww damn... buy a PC! haha 😂
@@Tonepusher hhahahahaha
Oh man!!! I know what I'm doing tonight...
haha hell yeah 🤘Just going around the presets is fun af lol
DUDE you nailed the Goa vibe with the Nitzer.. I have been trying for so long to get that same sound & here you are doing it..
what notes you using?
& what have you done to it to get it sounding that good? I have been playing this all day.. & Im not even close!
Bloody magic.
Haha thanks man! well the short answer would be, I've been doing this for 20 years every day. 🤯
But my advice would be...when you sound design, it's the small details that makes a big difference at the end. Also what I notice is that people tend to open up the cutoff too much or put too much distortion etc... Multiple small details that adds up and make a big difference.
For the notes, well tbh, I do it by ears haha I guess you should load up the track into your DAW and replicate the notes!
@@Tonepusher i started making tracks back in 99.
I had a break in 2015 till now.
Been getting back into the flow.
I will keep playing as even if you never get what you are maiming for you have fun along the way
@@fallenleaf24 Exactly man, to have fun is the goal number one hehe It's a long journey. I make about 20 shitty tracks for one good lol We all have different ways of working. But even when I make shitty tracks, I learn something for the next one!
@@Tonepusher 100% thats the way it goes.
I have no idea what else you did to the patch.. but I have narrowed the nots to a F xD
& then there is the matter of the distortion.. sounds like a fold back.. but either way what I have is not even close xD
LOL I have similar issue trying to recreate the old Goa sound. it seems like the Goa sound is a closely guarded secret. you have to join the clan to get the secret knowledge of the Goa sound.
no one ever shares the secrets of that old sound! I stoped asking & I grew up there, I hung out with with all the big names & not once did the secret sauce get leaked.
The best advice I have is to keep trying & stop asking as you wont get any help from people.
So unless you stumble upon the way you are screwed. I have been asking since 96 & all you get is the same..
anyway im salty because the Goa sound is very unique & I do wish it was more popular but given how hard it is to learn from those that know I can see the genre dining off..
& we will be left with nothing more than forest FM -.-
I never used the distortion thing out. but yo know thats life, I have managed to get some of the 303 stuff but never managed to nail the sound message me dude I will share what I have with ya if you need.
Peace
It sounds just fantastic, awesome video man! Will any MIDI files from the examples be available somewhere like Patreon? :)
Haha thanks man, well I didn't think about that. But I could totally share it, I don't mind! :) I'll wrap that up probably this week end and share it next week. 🤘
@@Tonepusher thanks man, that would be great and actually really helpful for the ones who are not that good with music theory so they can analyze how certain melody patterns are made looking at these files :D
@@maximkazakov6662 true! hehe Could be a cool video too I think...🤔haha
that sound you're talking about (1:09) is from the Prodigy song - breath, right??
im happy I got rid of my TI , but im happy I can now get this.
haha yeah sonically there's no difference at all! Don't you miss the hardware though? haha
@@Tonepusher not at all...was a love hate. Was my first hardware synth in 2007 and was a gift. Thats was the reason why was hard to sell but if was not the sentimental value that thing did not aged well and the lack of support by the brand that initially was the main selling point really pissed me off. also it had psu issues so yeahhh...I think it's a matter of time until we see it selling below 500. Was cool synth in 2007 the same way MC303 was a nice drum machine in the 90s 🤣
Now find me a hardware version of ReFx Vengeance and were COOKING
lolll Vengeance is such a classic!! haha "The beast" preset 👌🏻😂
@@Tonepusher it's allll over my old Cedigest stuff. There was a couple of preset packs released for it too, those sounds defined my teens!
Cool! I remember CeDigest, it was pretty heavy hehe 🤘
vanguard not Vengeance
@@eliaszerano3510 wow you're so right lol it's been so long since I used that VST that I forgot the name lol
hello
can you tell me where this preset is from
NITZER bsxm...
I love it
I have been looking at purchasing a TI Snow. Wish I had the firmware to snag this
I'll probably buy back my snow anyways. It's a great piece of history to have in a collection eventho theres a VST that sounds exactlt the same hehe
@@Tonepusher it’s tempting. Found a couple of used ones at a really decent price.
yeah I think prices are going down since that VST came out. I see a LOT of Virus TI for sale and before that there wasn't a single one.
@@Tonepusher still recommend the TI snow?
@@chadduncan9716 100%, idk what type of music you're making but it can do it all tbh. And in 20 years of making music I've never heard something similar to a Virus.
Fire
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Which Song is it at 07:28 ? 😮my Head go Crazy…. I cant figure it out 😂
Hahaha, me too! It's Life Is Good by Future ft. Drake
@@gusnperThank you soooooo much 🙏 you made my Day🎉
Where do you find the ROM?
Check audioz
I have the virus ti snow aswell but what do i do to get ostirus working and the firmware?
Do you play your own midi patterns or? I dont have arpeggiated sound on nitzer preset, for example...
Yeah it's a cubase project I made hehe
this synth has lots of presets. lol. almost 10, 000, hah. gonna nerd out and figure out how to install it
haha have fun with it! 🤘
where do i get the presets?
Ok so this is basically like an emulator for, say Super Nintendo. Your firmware is the game rom. Seems simple enough.
exactly!
Would you please tell me what sound presets have used in this video?
You can see the name of the presets on the interface. Bottom left!
@@Tonepusher got it! Strange thing is that I get different sounds with these presets than you...but more or less the synth is working on my Mac with Logic :)
Find out what knobs do! Song gets heavier!,
Since they discontinued it and they went guitar sim route...maybe they should go virus....complete computer integration-->virus CI
Maybe it's my nostalgia that is talking but I'd prefer an Hybrid synth like the evolution of the Snow maybe. But I 100% agree, they should at least release it as a software.
@@Tonepusher yeah...me also...but then they left me without software for TI on mac os x....low....
Is it better than Adam Szabo's Viper?
Tbh I never tried Viper, but the thing is that OsTIrus sounds exactly like the original Virus so I'd say that yeah it's better...if you want that sound.
@@Tonepusher it doesnt sound exactly like it.. ir IS it.. the emulation isnt of the virus its of the chip that runs the virus firmware.. visa vi, it is the VIRUS.
Viper is really great AND fully legal, and it uses wavetables from Virus with permission. Definitely not the same as a Virus but an excellent synth no matter what.
Am I being dumb...where do you init a patch? lmao
If you go in the ''Browser'' section you should find INIT patches there.
Is this compatible with m series macs?
Not a big fan of the filter. Effects are top notch though.
Yeah you're right I think it's the FXs and the waveforms that makes this synth unique.
Sounds rad, that's unfortunate about the whole firmware thing
Yeah I know :(
Access could have just updated the plugin for m1 silicon instead they cheaped out and somone came alone and totally reverse engineered the shark processors and then built a taylor made gui on top of a virus ti code emulator.
The usual suspects developers did more in 4 years than access did in a decade if not longer...
Its kind of karma if you ask me.
That's a very interesting point of view. I don't know sh** about coding. Didn't know that! thanks for sharing
@@Tonepusher I don't know much about coding either but what these developers are doing is taking synyhs that use the Motorola sharc processors and basically reverse engineering the code to be read on x86 and arm64 processes which are basically just modern day personal computer architectures.
Since any digital hardware architecture can usually be understood as a computational framework, anyone who has the time and resources can build the same virtual framework inside a computer with the caveat that the developer should need to understand how both work which is easier said than done.
Considering Christophe Kemper developed the virus TI to communicate front to back with computers, I have to assume these developers chose the Motorola chip because of already demonstrated real world communication and integration with x86 (common windows PC) architectures.
Christoph Kempwr the maker of the virus stopped updating the software for the ti and so anyone who owned one and used it on a Mac stopped being able to run it on new Mac's forcing people to look for things like this.
The silver lining for Kemper and access music is this will likely force them to release a new virus model out of fear that this is going to tank any old virus revenue...
Interesting indeed.
I must be one of those rare people who think the Virus is overrated....
Did you take your annual ears checkup?! haha I'm joking :P Yeah well I guess there IS people that don't like the sound of it.
I guess it's what you like yourself in terms of genre/sounds. Like mentioned it's that 2000's - 2010's Industrial and EBM synth.
I never liked that new Industrial harsh square wave/saw tooth sound and more like a late 80's/early 90's EBM sounds guy so it's not really in my ball park either. it seems to have some nice lush pads though which peaks my interest in it a bit more. Makes me wonder about the softer sounds/plucks/leads it can be capable of 🤔
@@kenn_foxx5563 Well I think it was associated with that sound because of the era it came out, and the factory presets. Tbh, that thing can make any type of sound. I'm also a huge 80s-90s industrial fan.
ok. this sucks. no presets? where are they at?
PROMOTING FREE OR PROMOTING PIRACY ???? It certainly is not free to own a Ti and to correct you in the description you wrote VIRUS TI emulation which it is not..... They emultated the DSP chips from Motorola and the ORIGINAL firmware is not emulated but simply runs on the emulated chips......
lol It is free. Free like you click and it's loading... After that I'm not responsible of what you're doing with it.
There's more to it than just emulating one chip. They made a whole UI around that emulated chip - a different one for each in the series - and a synth is never just one chip.
I thought this was about a computer virus.
Haha 😂 now you can make music instead, how cool is that? 😂
it is, kinda. computers weren't invented for music. music, itself, is the virus, and a beneficent one.
That would make great lyrics hehe
Old Roland V-Synt of System 8 are better. Forget your buggy Virus😊
Well for that video I had a Cubase project with about 12 of them open. CPU was fine and no bug at all 🤷🏻♂️
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Almost pointless. Making something where you need to have other software. Kind of hate these people.
Well, they made it knowing that the Firmware is going around online...hehe And it's free too, why all the hate? haha And my guess is that they'll partner with Kemper/Access at some point too.
its very easy to get the firmware for free
You're too lazy to find it online I guess, I found it within 10 seconds googling... It's free, and you still hate... Hater
Do you need the access virus for this or can you just download it for free ? 😊
@@RealityShiftUK you can download it for free but you need the original Firmware.
I see it's a little heavy on your cpu also :)
yes and no, for the video I opened around 10 of them and it was perfectly fine
also 2-3 would be more than enough for a song