Don't tell anyone, but... I think at least one developer reverse engineered the Virus code, and improved on it in his soft synth. I won't name names.AdvancedFollower wrote: Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:23 pmTrue in the past, computers didn't have the computing power to run the VA code natively (while simultaneously running a full DAW), so being able to use the hardware VA synth as a glorified DSP card to offload processing was actually a selling point. These days it just adds needless complexity. The Virus code ported to optimized ARM/x64 (as opposed to running under emulation) would barely make a dent in the CPU usage of a modern computer.mothra wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 3:37 pmWell nowadays you can cover the same stuff with a computer so why bother with the R&D for all the components and assembling hardware, when you can just use the same code and port it to Windows or MacOS and not have to worry about any overhead aside from the programmers? In 1999 when the Nord and Virus and Q and JP8000 were the cream of the crop, our PC's (and/or the developers) weren't quite up to the task at the time but look at how far the whole VA thing has come since then..chk071 wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:21 am I was a bit unspecific there.What I mean was those rather elaborate VA's like the Virus, JP-8000, Nord Lead etc. This domain seems to be rather dead compared to 15 to 20 years ago. Not that I wouldn't understand that, with the quality of some of today's soft synths, and the obvious advantages of in the box.
I can't be sure anyway. Let's just say that I'd be damned if it wasn't "helpful" in the development. If those guys just took a look, or even copied some of the code, I don't know.
