Equipment I use - Access Virus TI

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This is a ground breaking synth in its specification and approach to sound creation. It promises to bring the best of both worlds - soft and hardware.

The Access Virus TI Synth
	This is the Access Virus TI desktop model which I use. There are other versions available - with a keyboard integrated and a stylish limited edition called the PØLAR. The desktop comes with a rack mounting kit as well.

This is an awsome bit of kit!

After years of promising myself a Virus (model A B, C) as they came out, I finally gave in and bought a TI. There was a big waiting list as it had many revolutionary features, not least the TI (total integration) where it is connected to your DAW with a USB cable and integrates into your music application as a plugin.

Sounds of special note
Patch ID	Description
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I have been getting into all the sounds on board (there are so many), how to edit and use multis in tracks. Also I have spent a lot of time getting used to the TI features. This is a wonderful concept, not least because saving sounds is done with the track you are working on so there's no need to do system excl dumps.

The audio from the PC is also produced by the TI as well, which I have not found a way to sever this link and get the VST sound coming out of the PC interface and Access sounds coming from the virus audio outs.

I have also experienced problems playing several parts together and its almost as if its running out of polyphony too quickly. Every effect and sound technology thats used eats away at the processing power but still, I get issues playing 3 or so parts! I also experience clocking issues where sync is lost (usually when the "polyphony" is flaky) and the only way of bringing it back in is to restart VST. Ouch.

The recommendation is to run the TI on it's own USB bus into the host computer which I do. V2 brought load indicators so you could see a very rough idea of the power each sound takes up (only in the Virus display) but this is not enough to find out whats really going on IMAO.

I am beginning to wonder if it's best to completely upgrade my DAW anyway because running out of CPU processing is a problem more and more when using VSTis and this may be affecting the stability of the TI USB connection.

Having said that, it is a wonderful piece of kit and the sounds are -awesome-. Well worth the cost, and that not counting the fact that Access regularly release updates along with new banks of patches. Nice one :)