A brand new and ever more powerful strain of the Virus was released in 2002 to replace the entire B Series line-up. First up is the flag-ship desktop module, the Virus C. Polyphony is expanded from 24 to 32 voices! Otherwise the synth engine is virtually the same as the B series. Three oscillators, one sub osc., two independent multi-mode filters, two ADSTR envelopes, three LFOs, 16 arpeggiators, 32-band vocoder, five FM synthesis modes and 16 part multitimbrality. The C series offers an expanded mod matrix with 6 source and 9 destination slots, 98 effects, wood side panels, and more! A new 3-band EQ section is available as well as an Undo/Redo function. The operating systems can be easily upgraded via MIDI and there is a free SoundDiver Virus editor/librarian for Windows and MacOS systems available. It has been used by Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, and Max Graham.
...1 Motorola 56303 (fx unit) Access Virus A — Motorola 56303 Access Virus B — Motorola 56311 Access Virus C - Motorola 56362 Access Virus TI - 2x Freescale DSP 56367 Access Virus Ti2 - 2x Freescale DSP 56367. Later models used DSP56321 This got me wondering about some sort of emulator that could run them all so I went...
HUGE UPDATE: We currently have the Emulator running the Access Virus C ROM to the point that we are now able to load patches from the factory bank and have it output audio Here are a couple of Audio examples: https://dbree.org/v/560807 https://dbree.org/v/807e78
The Ion is great! I sold mine to get a Virus C at the time....and I was disappointed.... One of the best synths I've ever had was the Ion....sur it wasn't perfect, but it sounded really great, and looked good too!
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