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

[tumface]

I agree Discord as an official communication and community platform kind of sucks, because of Discord's crappiness in requiring personal information to sign up and their slow/crummy client, and also because it makes the information non-visible publicly and to search engines, archiving, finding years later when you remember something you want to look up...

But I guess it's what younger people prefer, for various reasons.

[audiojunkie]

I don't want to be negative. But I have to say it... Most of the synths that have been recreated don't have anything that special to me as far as sound goes. My guess is that most of this is more out of nostalgic fun, rather than making music with--after all, the CPU usage is really high. I know that the Virus was considered a big sound for about a decade, but I honestly don't understand what was so special about it. Maybe it had a special sound that was special for a particular genre of music?

[chk071]

To be totally honest, using the emulations has lowered my desire for owning one of these hardware synths a LOT as well. But, I consider that a good thing.

The Virus TI emu sounds very good though. But, so does Spire. And only uses a fraction of the CPU OsTIrus uses.

As far as I read on the Discord channel, quite a few people owning the hardware actually replaced it with the emulations. Speaks volumes about the comfort of using plugins against using hardware.

[djanthonyw]

OsTIrus hardly uses any CPU on my M2 Max. It sounds the same as the hardware Virus TI and pretty much blows away any VA synth plugin including Spire and Sylenth. When I was comparing OsTIrus to Sylenth, it kind of made Sylenth sound closer to that Tone2 cartoonish vibe, and Spire sounds thin.

[SLiC]

I had a hardware TI and now use OsTIrus (for nostalgia!) but I also think most modern VSTS sound just as good and have better features (browsers, MPE etc) - Dune, Current, Spire (not that modern!) etc. Given the age of the DSP code the Virus is based on, it shows that it was seriously good even a decade ago and not that much has really improved since then in the world VA!

[Uncle E]

No plugin sounds like the Nord. It’s its own thing.

[IvyBirds]

I don't want to be negative. But I have to say it... Most of the synths that have been recreated don't have anything that special to me as far as sound goes. My guess is that most of this is more out of nostalgic fun, rather than making music with--after all, the CPU usage is really high. I know that the Virus was considered a big sound for about a decade, but I honestly don't understand what was so special about it. Maybe it had a special sound that was special for a particular genre of music?

I think that can be said about pretty much every software recreation of vintage Synths, as well as hardware clones/reissues

It's driven by nostalgia especially by Gen X people like myself

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s there were many synths that I either owned at the time or wish I could have owned

To buy originals all of them now would cost well into the hundreds of thousands, but getting the software versions scratches the nostalgia itch quite well for very little money or physical space

[RobGee]

I’m waiting for them to release the Waldorf Q wasn’t keen on Vavra/Micro Q.

[Uncle E]

I’m waiting for them to release the Waldorf Q wasn’t keen on Vavra/Micro Q.

Is there any difference in sound?

I'm waiting for them to release a Q+.

[Scotty]

I own a Virus C. My best guess as to why it (Virus line) endured and still has a lot of fans is that the whole instrument just seems to be tuned to make good usable sounds. You pull up a preset and start knobbing around and you’ll get something useable with ease. It looks great on a desk, is reasonably compact and well built and has knobs in most of the places you’d want them. I compare it to the Hydrasynth. With it you have a very well thought out interface but to tame it you wind up going through 9654 variations of door buzzer until you get the hang of it. The Virus is near instant fun with purpose rolled into one great sounding machine. At least that is how I experience it.





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OsTIrus hardly uses any CPU on my M2 Max. It sounds the same as the hardware Virus TI and pretty much blows away any VA synth plugin including Spire and Sylenth. When I was comparing OsTIrus to Sylenth, it kind of made Sylenth sound closer to that Tone2 cartoonish vibe, and Spire sounds thin.
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[audiojunkie]

I don't want to be negative. But I have to say it... Most of the synths that have been recreated don't have anything that special to me as far as sound goes. My guess is that most of this is more out of nostalgic fun, rather than making music with--after all, the CPU usage is really high. I know that the Virus was considered a big sound for about a decade, but I honestly don't understand what was so special about it. Maybe it had a special sound that was special for a particular genre of music?

I think that can be said about pretty much every software recreation of vintage Synths, as well as hardware clones/reissues

It's driven by nostalgia especially by Gen X people like myself

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s there were many synths that I either owned at the time or wish I could have owned

To buy originals all of them now would cost well into the hundreds of thousands, but getting the software versions scratches the nostalgia itch quite well for very little money or physical space

Yeah, this makes sense to me. I'm also a Gen-X latchkey kid (...but at least my parents tried to be home as much as possible. ). I used to keep stacks of music equipment catalogs, along with kit car and kit plane magazines. I never could afford any of it, but I sure dreamed of owning it.

[Neon Breath]

I’m waiting for them to release the Waldorf Q wasn’t keen on Vavra/Micro Q.

Is there any difference in sound?

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[Uncle E]

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Thanks! Now I want the Q! In any event, it's good to know that we should stop using Vavra in multi mode.

[Gam456]

As far as I read on the Discord channel, quite a few people owning the hardware actually replaced it with the emulations. Speaks volumes about the comfort of using plugins against using hardware.

The fun fact. Ostirus is not a Virus Ti emulation since your are running the firmware with all the code form Access. The emulation is only the Motorola DSP.

That being said, for 2025 the Virus is a pretty dated synth with a lot of aliasing, not so many modulation slots, and his filters are dull.

I'm afraid. My Virus is sleeping in its box. I almost never use Ostirus.

[vitocorleone123]

As far as I read on the Discord channel, quite a few people owning the hardware actually replaced it with the emulations. Speaks volumes about the comfort of using plugins against using hardware.

The fun fact. Ostirus is not a Virus Ti emulation since your are running the firmware with all the code form Access. The emulation is only the Motorola DSP.

That being said, for 2025 the Virus is a pretty dated synth with a lot of aliasing, not so many modulation slots, and his filters are dull.

I'm afraid. My Virus is sleeping its box. I almost never use Ostirus.

It sounds better than the majority of software synths to me.