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by aa-jv 244 days ago
These guys are awesome .. their interaction with Kemper&co, about their amazing emulation work, not so much.

There's a hard lesson for hardware manufacturers to be learned in this drama.

If Kemper were supportive, they'd have a very clear road to a next-gen Virus TI (a "Proton"?) on the horizon .. but the word on the street has it that they're hostile to the effort of emulating the Motorola DSP ...
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steveBK123 243 days ago
The Virus TI series are truly impressive even.. or especially, by modern standards. 16 multitimbral parts, up to 90 voices... 20 years ago!

These days you can spend $1000 and get 8-16 voices without multitimbral feature. Hydrasynth Deluxe or Novation Summit in the $2k-3k range for 2 parts and total of 16 voices is considered good now.

Everything has moved to DAW centric workflows tethered to your computer and the hardware has really stopped innovating.

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aa-jv 237 days ago
Sure, the DAW is king in the 21st century .. but hardware synths have their time and place. Access was one of the first to get hardware/software integration working with the TI - but as we can see, its a difficult thing to support, going into the future .. the TI plugin is no longer a viable feature unless you dedicate archaic hardware/OS to its functionality - however the synth hardware itself is still as operational and useful as it ever was. This is as true of the synth world as ever.

Its wonderful to have the Virus TI hardware working in a DSP emulator - one can only hope that eventually the reverse-engineering eyeballs will also tackle the TI plugin feature, some day ...

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import 243 days ago
Oh wow didn’t know next gen virus is a thing
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aa-jv 237 days ago
Its not. The Virus TI was the end of the Virus line .. if Kemper do something else related to synthesizers, its likely to be a brand new product.

Lets see! An update for their synthesizer users is quite long overdue .. however, of course, the Kemper Profiling Amp is generating plenty of customers for them, meanwhile. Kemper Profiling Synthesizer in the future? One can only hope to see it, however it happens ..

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