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

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?

haha yeah man! have fun 🤘🏻

hell yeah! no problem man! 🤘

hey thanks for the support :) 🤘🏻

haha yeah that thing is amazing!

haha yeah np 🤘

@@Tonepusher 🤓Good man. ;)

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.

haha yeah I love early Hocico! To me their Virus Ti live setup is iconic hehe 🤘🏻

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

Yeah I've seen that. The Q is also a HUGE classic in my book. I'll check that out.

agreed 100% haha it's SO sad that they stopped....

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.

hey thanks a lot man! 🤘

@@Tonepusher 🍻🍻

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

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.

no problem man :) 🤘

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

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.

hahaha exactly

hey np man! 🤘

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.

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

@@maximkazakov6662 true! hehe Could be a cool video too I think...🤔haha

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

haha hell yeah 🤘Just going around the presets is fun af lol

Well it's the chip that was used in the Virus isn't it? Therefore it's a Virus emulation? haha

Hahaha, me too! It's Life Is Good by Future ft. Drake

@@gusnperThank you soooooo much 🙏 you made my Day🎉

hey! no problem haha 😊

@@Tonepusher no works in mojave dude..... cry.......

aww damn... buy a PC! haha 😂

@@Tonepusher hhahahahaha

Yeah it's a cubase project I made hehe

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 🤣

haha no problem man :) 🤘

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

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haha have fun with it! 🤘

where do i get the presets?

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.

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.

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....

Yeah I know :(

If you go in the ''Browser'' section you should find INIT patches there.

exactly!

Yeah you're right I think it's the FXs and the waveforms that makes this synth unique.

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.

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.

Well for that video I had a Cubase project with about 12 of them open. CPU was fine and no bug at all 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

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.