Motorola DSP563xx Emulator (BETA) (Access Virus, Nord Lead, Waldorf MW...)

[adamszabo]

IIMO Viper sounds too bright, brittle and hard and does not have the warm sound of the Virus/Emu.

Yep Virus C sounds cleaner aswel. Like its running at higher frequency rate (or oversampling). Viper's higher register seems unclean.

It seems you guys have never heard of this amazing thing and you never used it before. There is a secret weapon pro producers are using but SHHHH, dont tell anyone about it, let it be between us. Its called....an equalizer!
Use that and no plugin will be hard, soft, brittle, clean, dirty, warm, cold, you can make it into any combination you like

I dont want to get in to argument, but get some proper audio equipment for test (krks doesnt count, they are shit, something like barefoot, genelecs would do), because there is a clear difference in higher register of Viper vs Virus Ti vs Virus C. And no EQ is changing that on Viper no matter how much you would EQ. If you are not hearing the difference then im sorry, but there must be ear checking adressed

I do have proper equipment to test, and you are right, there is some slight difference in the tone, but no one ever claimed (at least I didnt) Viper is 100.00000% exact replica of the Virus. It is meant to give a very similar tone and vibe. Even a Virus A/B/C/Ti have some difference. Viper might have different high register difference because of the anti aliasing method, and you can absolutely get them back with an EQ to match it much closer to a virus, but at this point we are talking about nitpicking, its not this slight difference thats going to be noticeable in a song, because you anyway EQ a track.

[Prototech]

Is Waldorf Microwave/ Q available? I cant find any info

or nord lead?

[Scotty]

No. The project leaders have some of these working but they are not releasing them... so far. They are trying to work something out with the original hardware manufacturers.

Is Waldorf Microwave/ Q available? I cant find any info

or nord lead?

[moxxi]

Is Waldorf Microwave/ Q available? I cant find any info

or nord lead?

You can check progress here

[Lbdunequest]

IIMO Viper sounds too bright, brittle and hard and does not have the warm sound of the Virus/Emu.

Yep Virus C sounds cleaner aswel. Like its running at higher frequency rate (or oversampling). Viper's higher register seems unclean.

It seems you guys have never heard of this amazing thing and you never used it before. There is a secret weapon pro producers are using but SHHHH, dont tell anyone about it, let it be between us. Its called....an equalizer!
Use that and no plugin will be hard, soft, brittle, clean, dirty, warm, cold, you can make it into any combination you like

I dont want to get in to argument, but get some proper audio equipment for test (krks doesnt count, they are shit, something like barefoot, genelecs would do), because there is a clear difference in higher register of Viper vs Virus Ti vs Virus C. And no EQ is changing that on Viper no matter how much you would EQ. If you are not hearing the difference then im sorry, but there must be ear checking adressed

I do have proper equipment to test, and you are right, there is some slight difference in the tone, but no one ever claimed (at least I didnt) Viper is 100.00000% exact replica of the Virus. It is meant to give a very similar tone and vibe. Even a Virus A/B/C/Ti have some difference. Viper might have different high register difference because of the anti aliasing method, and you can absolutely get them back with an EQ to match it much closer to a virus, but at this point we are talking about nitpicking, its not this slight difference thats going to be noticeable in a song, because you anyway EQ a track.

Its not really about the having exact replica. Its about clarity, for example other synths like Monark, Massive X has that clear high register. Viper does not and if you boost up high frequencies you only expose the uglynes of the sound. If you boost those frequencies on virus ti or c, you dont hear the uglyness, frequencies are smooth and clear.

[adamszabo]

what you are saying makes no sense but whatever

[v1o]

The OG Access Virus has magical fairy dust in the high end frequencies that sounds very good with massive EQ boosts. This cannot be recreated if you don't know how to put sorcery into your DSP.

[Scotty]

If you want the Virus sound it is probably best to be running the actual code that the Virus was built on. I don't think that should be a controversial statement.

[frag]

Fascinating work, maybe "a game changer"
Virus emulation works great. I even installed it in VM, I have C5 32bit for old projects in there. JBridge f**** up drop down menus but you just hold mouse and press arrow keys to select value.
So yeah, this works in all DAWs old & new, and it's very low on CPU.

To be honest, I prefer Reveal Sound Spire - sound quality, and especially workflow. It was the reason I didn't get hardware Virus TI. But this emulator is awesome, you can use tons of Virus presets, create your own VA sounds and unlike Spire, CPU usage is quite low. It will be a useful tool.

I'm awaiting Waldorf Micro Q full version!

[SLiC]

I'm awaiting Waldorf Micro Q full version!

Waldorf Micro Q beta is available to all now and is fully working...

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[frag]

I'm awaiting Waldorf Micro Q full version!

Waldorf Micro Q beta is available to all now and is fully working...

viewtopic.php?t=596134

It's beta version, you can't save state in DAW yet.

To be honest, Micro Q was never on my list. Even Nord Lead 3 was pretty low on the list.
Virus Series YES, JP8000/8080 YES Yamaha AN1X YES, among newer ones Korg KingKorg & Novation Summit (not as much as the others though). I guess it's a matter of taste.
Most of the sounds on Mircro Q are so harsh, cutting, almost "screaming", it takes a lot of work to get mixable sounds. One guy on Youtube made really warm, analog sounds, but never provided the bank for download or sale.

I am very happy that I can run Virus C on a PC, though it's more for sentimental reasons. More than 10 years ago, native VST synths simply outgrown hardware versions. With Diva and Spire I can do all I want... Perhaps it's ironic that Diva sounds more analog than all of VA hardware synths.

[osiris]

These ARE vintage synths. I thought the same about this, though the filters and effects are great, I really would go to Massive or Spire first.

[gentleclockdivider]

To be honest, Micro Q was never on my list. Even Nord Lead 3 was pretty low on the list.
Virus Series YES, JP8000/8080 YES Yamaha AN1X YES, among newer ones Korg KingKorg & Novation Summit (not as much as the others though). I guess it's a matter of taste.

Jp8000 and AN1-X don't use motorolla cpu's for executing code , which is what the project is all about .
I hope for the nord modular next , already have the hardware since early 2000 but a 1:1 replica would be ace

[SLiC]

These ARE vintage synths. I thought the same about this, though the filters and effects are great, I really would go to Massive or Spire first.

I agree Spire probably sounds better than these old emulated synths, but they have a lot of history (and pre-sets) so even from a nostalgic point of view they are worth having in my opinion...the Virus hardware always sounded good to me.

[felis]

How do you save patches? Everytime I try to load a saved patch it doesn't show the .syx.mid patch I saved.

I'm trying to figure that out too.

Edit: load a sound, edit it, and hit save. I get a message saying I can't save in that folder and would I like to save under user. Create a folder in user, and give the program a name and save it with a .syx extension.
Change to a different sound and then hit load. Navigate to the folder and click on the saved sound.
The displayed name won't change in the main display or the one on the right side of the load screen, but the sound changes and plays the new sound.

That's as far as I've gotten.