Is it something to bet on a Virus synth?

[GeorgeZ]

I'd hazard a guess that it's because these threads are usually started by people who are already using softsynths, and want to know if buying a Virus will turn them into Armin.

Not Armin, but Orjan Nilsen! That guy knows how to use the Virus and his tracks are pure heaven.

Armin was just a name I plucked out of the aether, it's just an illustration that a lot of people will think they need a Virus as it's the only way to sound like producer X

And just for the record, Nilsen stated that Sylenth1 was pretty much a replacement for the Virus for 'that' sound. I came to the same conclusion 2 years ago when I sold my Ti.

Ye, funny that! They never seem to consider that the actual song needs to be worth something as well Well, that's how SW and HW companies make money of course... selling millions of copies / units to dreamers with no clue Classic.

[rob_lee]

Well, that's how SW and HW companies make money of course... selling millions of copies / units to dreamers with no clue Classic.

LOL George

[jupiter8]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

[izonin]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

[jupiter8]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

[kmonkey]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

Yuo forgot to mention that Poco has different FX section, reverb is entirely different sounding, filter types are different, sound is different etc. Worth to mention

[izonin]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

I still think that it will use 2-3 times more cycles than Largo. But, yeah, maybe less cycles than Diva.

[jupiter8]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

I still think that it will use 2-3 times more cycles than Largo. But, yeah, maybe less cycles than Diva.

The Motorola DSP56311 does 150 MIPS according to Motorola themselves (up to 270 actually using The Enhanced Filter Coprocessor (EFCOP)) , the dual Freescale DSPB56367PV150 in the TI does 300 MIPS (which is odd since that means the actual DSP isn't faster,there's just more of them).

[jupiter8]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

Yuo forgot to mention that Poco has different FX section, reverb is entirely different sounding, filter types are different, sound is different etc. Worth to mention

Compared to the hardware Virus ? I doubt that,why would they do that ?

[izonin]

So, it's easy to imagine that a Virus VSTi would require a very fast CPU.

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

I still think that it will use 2-3 times more cycles than Largo. But, yeah, maybe less cycles than Diva.

The Motorola DSP56311 does 150 MIPS according to Motorola themselves (up to 270 actually using The Enhanced Filter Coprocessor (EFCOP)) , the dual Freescale DSPB56367PV150 in the TI does 300 MIPS (which is odd since that means the actual DSP isn't faster,there's just more of them).

It's difficult to compare chips with different architecture. A 500MHz video card with a parallel processing GPU will run DirectX faster than a 3GHz Intel CPU.

[jupiter8]

The Virus PowerCore ran 16 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station PowerCore ran 8 voices on a single Motorola chip. The Novation V-Station VST ran fine fine on my Pentium 4,you do the math.

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

I still think that it will use 2-3 times more cycles than Largo. But, yeah, maybe less cycles than Diva.

The Motorola DSP56311 does 150 MIPS according to Motorola themselves (up to 270 actually using The Enhanced Filter Coprocessor (EFCOP)) , the dual Freescale DSPB56367PV150 in the TI does 300 MIPS (which is odd since that means the actual DSP isn't faster,there's just more of them).

It's difficult to compare chips with different architecture.

Yeah i know, however they are not.

[izonin]

The PoCo Virus was a 1999 Virus B ....

I know. The TI has got much faster DSPs,on the other hand it does 80 voices compared to the 24 of the B which tells me the load per voice isn't that much different.

I still think that it will use 2-3 times more cycles than Largo. But, yeah, maybe less cycles than Diva.

The Motorola DSP56311 does 150 MIPS according to Motorola themselves (up to 270 actually using The Enhanced Filter Coprocessor (EFCOP)) , the dual Freescale DSPB56367PV150 in the TI does 300 MIPS (which is odd since that means the actual DSP isn't faster,there's just more of them).

It's difficult to compare chips with different architecture.

Yeah i know, however they are not.

But you get my idea. The 150MHz hardware will run the instructions faster than the software on a 1GHz CPU.

[rob_lee]

Now these topics are interesting indeed, a good read unlike the other one on here where people are comparing f**king waveforms of 2 competing synths lol.

Rob

[jupiter8]

But you get my idea. The 150MHz hardware will run the instructions faster than the software on a 1GHz CPU.

Well yeah but that still doesn't change the fact the the Novation V-Station VST ran fine on my PIV (don't remember how many voices though) which is twice as heavy on the DSP as the Virus.

[mcnoone]

Now these topics are interesting indeed, a good read unlike the other one on here where people are comparing f**king waveforms of 2 competing synths lol.

Rob

Hey Rob...what is another name for Virus?