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As a Virus C owner, I couldn't be happier with having this emulation on my PC because now, I don't have to recall all of my multi single presets when reloading a track, and I don't have to spend time recording the audio into the daw, but I *can* still use the hardware as a control surface to design patches-as long as the track with the plugin is armed and the synth is connected to the track's midi input, any changes I make to the hardware patch will be made on the software one as well due to the 1:1 cc mapping (for the most part). If anything, it helps me use the hardware more often than I normally would.
I provided a tiny help to the guys doing the real work on the Virus emulator and told them about a version of the DSP in the Virus B they didn't know about.
The manufacturers don't necessarily all see it that way. Yamaha protect the copyright of VL synthesis (or did - I may be out of date on this) despite not making any VL products any more. They allegedly see any attempt to make VL for free as competition for their current range of synths... mostly with good reason, IMO. VL was amazing and could be something truly special, with more development on modern hardware.
@@TooSlowTube…like just about anyone who uses Karplus-Strong? I was at Stanford when Yamaha “launched” the VL1, but you’re right, the real money isn’t in the products, it’s in preventing anyone else from making the products. Yamaha synths may be great, but Yamaha synths that are never brought to market can still fund Yamaha motorcycles. It’s obscene. And good business sense.
their Microwave XT emulation is the most charming VST i've ever used. at last something that's not trying to do fake analog… very dirty and cold, but amazing with a real character.
That Motorola 56000 family DSP chip was also used in a lot of audio related products. The Atari Falcon famously has one which 30 years ago made Cubase Audio possible. That chip family is a legend.
It showed up in many many places, if you had a Motorola phone back in the day then chances were there was one in there talking to the cell towers. Every OG Xbox has (at least) 2 inside, was also used in a whole bunch of home AV gear, the list goes on and on...
I use hardware and software versions/editors of Wave XT, Micro Q, Ti kb, Virus B, MKS7, and ATC-1. The ability to recreate my home studio synths on a laptop in a sleazy Euro-hotel is not to be sneezed at. Being able to dump and tweak sounds in both directions is fine by me, although the sheer hands on wibbling joy of the hardware is hard to beat. Ethically, I know where I stand, but I'm not going to preach to those of the skint persuasion. Most of us have been (or will be) skint musicians at some point in our lives.
I found one new in 1999, and another one showed up a few years ago on fleabay for very cheap. One has the 303 filter cart installed, and the other one has the Moog filter.
OSTirus is the backbone of most of my productions at this point. I love the many pieces of bad gear I've picked up over the years, but this VST has me back at the computer in the best way. Thanks for shining eyes on this project!
@@AudioPilz Since we're talking about vocoders, and you've tried several different vocoders, which vocoder is the clearest and most intelligible of all those you've tried so far? (Let's consider both hardware and software vocoders.)
Owner of an original Virus Indigo here, bought it new in 2002 at a slightly discounted price just as the Virus C was coming out. Spent last night comparing orignal presets to Osirus and it's pretty spot on. I'll still never sell the hardware though as it's one of the best synths I own for fast tweaking of sounds due to it's great interface.
As Virus B and TI2 owner, the TI will be sold before I ever let go of the Virus B. It' just sounds better, the plugin emulations are nice in a pinch if you MUST have the virus sound but if you got the hardware it's far easier to plugin midi & audio than jump through all the hoops on a PC to get the plugin going, also there's no CPU overhead on your DAW with the real thing. Automation on the plugin is better through once setup.
@@neuroscope9052 I bought almost new Virus B even after watched tons of videos with OSTirus. I found that original B still sounds better because of it's hardware converters or something else
@@neuroscope9052 Agreed on Virus B, the best, - and let's not forget there is a 3rd party VST librarian/editor so you can do hardware automation for all Virus I think from the DAW. Wish I could remember the company who makes the editor. Hope they are still in business, it's been a while since I've had the DAW running - Mystical Pineapples or something like that.
WOW... i was literally just coming across stuff like this! it's sort of buried deep within reddit comments, it wasn't the sort of thing being covered by channels so thanks for making this video!
No need to run multiple instances if you use multimode. It's also important to know that one instance of the plugin will always use a fixed amount of CPU, no matter how many voices or parts you use. Alternatively, using the snow fw will halve the CPU consumption.
Made OsTirus and Osiris on a Rpi5 with raspbian and runs pretty well, but had those dropouts from time to time running it on single mode. On multi mode things get worse but not horribly. On my Ryzen 7 5800x though works with no issue in windows. These people from the 56300 community are wizards.
This is dope (as we used to say in the 90's), thanks! The synth examples sounded identical except the software seemed to say a different chord at one point.
I looked up whether the Proteus 2000 line of sound modules had the DSP56300 (it likely has the MC68020 instead as the CPU), but it seems I have to rely on the aging Emulator X3 for that kind of sound until Windows no longer can run it due to eventual API changes. I likely can look up how its filters work, which are pretty good. For a potential bad gear episode, I recommend the XL-7, which is the even more controversial groovebox version of the already controversial Xtreme Lead rack module (rompler cosplaying as a virtual analog synth).
I bought Sweetwater's very last Virus TI2 they had in stock a few years back. Love it, and thankfully the PC control VST still works, but also I am overjoyed that emulation is so competent now.
@@DoctorSoctopus I bought one of Andertons final TI2s last year. Sold it on recently because Ostirus does a great job. But I actually miss the proper TI2 software. Wish I could run Ostirus using it.
~1:58 Hey, good on Waldorf!! ~7:33 Haha, that's great. Good work as always, and awesome idea for a video. I think stuff like this is really cool, and a fantastic way to get some good synths for free. Neat vocoder shoutout as per usual! *CHRIS CEBELENSKI* Haha, looking forward to what you'll be bringing us in the future!
Those Patreon shout outs now feel like familiar friends I've heard their names so often lol. Incidentally the Virus B emu runs perfectly on my decade old Win 10 PC. Installed it about 6 months ago but still not found the time to delve deep.
I love my TI desktop I got it around 2008 It’s so powerful I’ll never sell it But I’m excited for the renewed interest in it, I’m hoping it leads to more contemporary patches and sound design experiments or tutorials And been meaning to play with the emulator for the convenience of having access to those sounds when connecting the hardware isn’t convenient
I was hoping you'd do a video on this! I picked up a Virus TI Snow after Access announced they were officially ending production. I can feel good about using OsTIrus now. 😏
The benefit of devices like Nord Rack or Access Virus is not the sounds (which i find inferior to some VSTi's like Surge or Diva), but having a hardware control panel. I'm much more comfortable tweaking a patch using knobs rather than hovering with the mouse pointer over the screen. Besides (i still have to check out the idea myself), you can run a hardware polisynth through a mixer with a fader and do volume sweeps. Good for filmscore music. Unless of course you prefer to program those sweeps in your DAW also.
Very enjoyable video. Good jam as usual, great memes, and bonus info, since I was intending on trying them out myself soon (in a few weeks/months/year?), but had no intention of doing comparisons with the original hardware myself.
Definitely going to check this out. I am already loving the Arturia Synclavier V which is the actual synth engine of the original hardware and sports a pretty cool version of the Synclav's keyboard and DEC monitor UI.
Love the idea of people being able to play a soft version of the virus. Especially for free. Thats awesome info to share!!! A few years ago I traded a Mother 32 and $500 for a Virus Ti-1 desktop and it’s by far the best VA I ever owned. After a while of owning it I realized I didn’t need to buy anything else, then I bought a Tasty Chips GR-1 to go with it, and sold about half of everything else I owned. The great purge lol Speaking of Tasty Chips GR-1, that would make a great bad gear episode.
6:51, yes, and that is also the case with the discontinued synths like Nord Lead or MicroQ. Some argue that you need to own the hardware synth to use its OS, but although I do own the MicroQ I am not allowed to use their system in my PC that is not hardware MicroQ.
This is super cool. It might finally get me to use VSTs. For now though, I just verified the test program spits out a pristine demo song, and the rest is saved to play with later.
I own a Virus A and can’t justify the cost to add a TI/TI2 to my setup. I installed this and really enjoy it and don’t feel too conflicted about it. I haven’t gone down the road of the Waldorf versions yet.
First, Osirus and Ostirus are amazing. I've not experienced spiky performance issues. I'm using Linux with a 13th gen processor and 32GB of RAM. I'm using Jack with a 48K samplerate. I've used it in Reaper as a CLAP plugin and have in a couple of cases also been using the CLAP plugin version of VCV Rack in the same arrangement. Again, no issues. If you're making a song with lots of instruments, it is often advisable to bounce some things down to audio and disable those instruments. Just a basic part of life on any OS with any DAW. I've had more issues in Bitwig than Reaper, because Reaper is so much lighter than Bitwig.
There's a saying that when taxi drivers talk about good investments it's time to sell your stock. When larger youtube channel stat talking about the Motorola 56300 series you know manufactueres will have to take measures to project their IP/firmware, and the fun is over. Some things are better left unsaid. But aren't we men all chatty women deep inside?
I wish I never sold my TI. 😭😢 It was beautifully made, sounded awesome but I had it before I really knew what I was doing with writing and mixing music. I got it when I was first starting out 20 years ago and went crazy with my hobby buying a bunch of stuff I didn't need or know what to do with. I have no idea how I had the money, because I certainly don't now!! Everything about the Virus TI felt high-end. The knobs had the right resistance and touch, the lights were mesmerising and of course, the presets were mind-blowing and you could make your own sounds so quickly I had more patches saved from that synth than any other VST-i I I own even to this day.
As an owner of 2 dead Nova Laptops (power supplies and led screens rip, faulty encoders, which I replaced several times.) I would love to have accurate emulations of them. I am a legit owner. I even have the firmwares, etc. I love my Novas, they were great when running. I wish Novation would watch this video and get busy making the emulations themselves. My credit card would be available to them (again) with 24 hours of release. Thanks for the video.
Natural born chillers! 😁 Can't wait Behringer to put these firmwares on a chip that suicides if you try to read it (they're a thing) and then sell the Bhirus for 200€ 😂
@@pirateradioFPV Kind of surprised I didn't know that, but then again Jansson wrote it in Swedish ^^ have several books and many VHS'es still.. even a finlandssvenska DVD edition of Moominpappa's adventures, lol. Can't put away all "childish" things.
Of all the goofy things, far from whetting my appetite to switch to VST plug-ins, the presence of the Virus TI module in the foreground suddenly made my palms itch for a Virus *C* module. Of all the Virus iterations that hit the market before Access began shunting all its attention to the Kemper Profiler range of guitar amp/effect modelers, the Virus C is the one that has held my attention, despite it now being over 20 years old as of my comment.
The pirate in me loves that these are open and available emulators, and the fact that the hardware is discontinued makes them fair game. With that being said, I wouldn't be upset if the original HW manufacturers hired them (or took a cut) and made the products commercial. Make them officially supported products. Everyone wins. The product is legal, the original creators make bank with zero effort, and the creators of the emulators also take a cut whilst ensuring that the product is supported commercially.
Back in 1992 I tried to make a sampler based on the 56000 as my final year degree project. Think I overstepped the mark a bit, but at least it seems I was using the right technology.
Having access to so many instruments and sounds via emulations might be kind of a double edge sword. You get access to all the Bad Gear you want. But too many options can be overwhelming and hinder the creative process. IDK I think I'm more creative when my options are very limited
@@joshuaschmalle_vlogs there's a psychology concept that could be at play called the Paradox of Choice. it specifically focuses on consumer options. but it basically says eliminating choices can reduce anxiety. like, you could do the research on 10 options of car manufacturers to figure out which is best for you. but if you had 1000 options of car manufacturers, you'd never figure it out.
@@baltimoreluke The paradox of choice applies to different brands of the same type of paint brush, not for different types of paint brushes that are different. Idk the more options I have the deeper i can explore something.
I have the Virus TI desktop. I took it out of storage a couple of years ago to find that it would not boot. After a factory reset all the patches I collected from the now defunct community of users were all gone. Virus used to host patches made by Virus users all ranked by other users and it was really easy to import them into one of the many available empty slots. The VST plugin for a DAW used to work like any other VST but it served as a remote control for the Virus hardware. I was unable to get that plugin to work on my Mac. The hardware has a USB port and 6 x 1/4" outputs and 2 x 1/4" inputs along with SPDIF and MIDI 5din in/out/thru. The sounds on this thing are really good and stand up to the best soft synths you can get today. I wanted to figure out how I could revive the thing and get it integrated into my setup, but learning today that there's some emulations available seems like a better quest.
This emulator kicks ass of original Virus out of the market. Brilliant idea and implementation. Gives us more then Behringer clones - it gives us originals for free.
@@AudioPilz, BTW, someone wants to rent you Alesis Fusion (or Andromeda) for review. From Hamburg to Vienna or similar trip. It was a year ago, possibly. How it's going?)
damn, this is incredible! I got rid of Virus Snow some years ago but now I can dig up some of the old patches 😄i've had some nasty latency and connectivity issues with it and it was running out of polyphony really quick, which was a pain in the ass. This is surely solved by just having this fully in the box, I used to program this thing by the vst anyway.
soundwise its basically the same... fx a/d converter can play a role but the virus is a VA synth based on a engine that has been cloned without any loss of mojo. older nodles having a analoge filter i guess ... evntually might sound different but nothing that a eq could not fix
It really deserves some criticism for the Ti implementation, that's for sure. It's always nice to see something I own and know getting the Bad Gear treatment.
got the Ostirus working on my MacBook Air m3 - I would have loved to use my hardware ti but is does not have compatable software for Somona . It looks and sounds the same to my ears . New another piece of gear is hidden for the time caple .
I own the hardware TI2, Micro Q and Lead 2X, they wont last forever so it's nice to know that they will always be preserved by software. I hope they can do this with the Elektron Machinedrum one day, I would be lost without those sounds
I got it working on my Mac! I used my original Access website log-in to get the necessary files. Now I can put my TI Desktop hardware (which I wasn't using anyway) back into storage.
Yup. With my TI I had to use it as the SP/DIF as the clock source, too. I'd get sync errors if I tried to use my Forcusrite Scarlett 18i20 3rd gen as the clock source.
thank you for bringing this to my attention. i will surely NOT use these softwares and i do NOT already have them extracting to my vst folder. i will CERTAINLY let the manufacturers know that someone is emulating their synthesizer, and i will NOT continue to use these
At first glance the DSP56300 is ticking all my boxes Virus, Nord, Waldorf. It's just a matter of time that I can basically use half of my studio both tactile and as a plugin. And I am really happy with that in the case of the Waldorf Microwave XT/ Xenia. Aside of that, I am really happy with the tactile control. Using less screens always improves my creativity and life in tracks ❤
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@@TooSlowTube Guten tag!
Thanks, How to install it on linux, I'm using reaper ?
@@Myexpectationsarerealistic Wi getz du?
@@Techieadi It looks like YT hid both my answers. See their Install Guide (Guides tab).
@@TooSlowTube Weird ask.
I thought that using the TI emulator would cure my craving to own a Virus TI, but it actually only increased it.
That's natural, normal...
I feel you... I ended up buying a TI2 after finding the DSP56300 emulator.
Same for me with a virus b.
many such cases!
Sounds like the virus has you.
As a Virus C owner, I couldn't be happier with having this emulation on my PC because now, I don't have to recall all of my multi single presets when reloading a track, and I don't have to spend time recording the audio into the daw, but I *can* still use the hardware as a control surface to design patches-as long as the track with the plugin is armed and the synth is connected to the track's midi input, any changes I make to the hardware patch will be made on the software one as well due to the 1:1 cc mapping (for the most part). If anything, it helps me use the hardware more often than I normally would.
Had a Virus C myself from 2002 until a few years back. Regret selling that, especially now what you describe is possible.
Great workflow!
I provided a tiny help to the guys doing the real work on the Virus emulator and told them about a version of the DSP in the Virus B they didn't know about.
Cool!!!
Legend
56303?
wow
I really appreciated this being a rather different episode that explored a different type of gear/tech and shook up the format
Thank you, happy to hear that!
if the original is discontinued there's really no money to be lost...
👍
Kemper would probably make a boat load by charging $20 for the firmware on their website and everyone would be happy
The manufacturers don't necessarily all see it that way. Yamaha protect the copyright of VL synthesis (or did - I may be out of date on this) despite not making any VL products any more. They allegedly see any attempt to make VL for free as competition for their current range of synths... mostly with good reason, IMO. VL was amazing and could be something truly special, with more development on modern hardware.
@@TooSlowTube…like just about anyone who uses Karplus-Strong? I was at Stanford when Yamaha “launched” the VL1, but you’re right, the real money isn’t in the products, it’s in preventing anyone else from making the products. Yamaha synths may be great, but Yamaha synths that are never brought to market can still fund Yamaha motorcycles. It’s obscene. And good business sense.
el kemperino
their Microwave XT emulation is the most charming VST i've ever used. at last something that's not trying to do fake analog… very dirty and cold, but amazing with a real character.
Super interesting!
That vocoder sounds like you're saying "Autobahn" every time! Love all your videos and this one is no exception! Thank you!
Lol, so true! Thank you!!!
That Motorola 56000 family DSP chip was also used in a lot of audio related products. The Atari Falcon famously has one which 30 years ago made Cubase Audio possible. That chip family is a legend.
True that!
That’s what I was programming in college… brings me back!
It showed up in many many places, if you had a Motorola phone back in the day then chances were there was one in there talking to the cell towers. Every OG Xbox has (at least) 2 inside, was also used in a whole bunch of home AV gear, the list goes on and on...
It also meant we could make some really cool demos on the Falcon. And play MP3s in realtime, even. Which was a pretty big deal at the time.
IIRC the NeXT Cube also had a Motorola 56000 and an Intel i860.
I use hardware and software versions/editors of Wave XT, Micro Q, Ti kb, Virus B, MKS7, and ATC-1. The ability to recreate my home studio synths on a laptop in a sleazy Euro-hotel is not to be sneezed at.
Being able to dump and tweak sounds in both directions is fine by me, although the sheer hands on wibbling joy of the hardware is hard to beat.
Ethically, I know where I stand, but I'm not going to preach to those of the skint persuasion. Most of us have been (or will be) skint musicians at some point in our lives.
Nice approach!
first time I hear "skint" and why do I feel insulted?
@@vecvan Inability to google a five letter word? Thin skin? Addiction to TikTok rhetoric?
My crystal ball is currently offline.
where did you find an atc-1 ?
I found one new in 1999, and another one showed up a few years ago on fleabay for very cheap. One has the 303 filter cart installed, and the other one has the Moog filter.
OSTirus is the backbone of most of my productions at this point. I love the many pieces of bad gear I've picked up over the years, but this VST has me back at the computer in the best way. Thanks for shining eyes on this project!
Nice, thanks!!!
Have you been able to run it in multi mode? I tried feeding it midi on different channels, but it reverts to channel 1 inside the plugin 😢
The most unintelligible vocoder shoutout since channel inception. Great job moog!
😂😂😂
@@AudioPilz Since we're talking about vocoders, and you've tried several different vocoders, which vocoder is the clearest and most intelligible of all those you've tried so far? (Let's consider both hardware and software vocoders.)
"It's a hardware synth and it costs $700., so it must be good."
The free Tal vocoder.
Owner of an original Virus Indigo here, bought it new in 2002 at a slightly discounted price just as the Virus C was coming out. Spent last night comparing orignal presets to Osirus and it's pretty spot on. I'll still never sell the hardware though as it's one of the best synths I own for fast tweaking of sounds due to it's great interface.
As Virus B and TI2 owner, the TI will be sold before I ever let go of the Virus B. It' just sounds better, the plugin emulations are nice in a pinch if you MUST have the virus sound but if you got the hardware it's far easier to plugin midi & audio than jump through all the hoops on a PC to get the plugin going, also there's no CPU overhead on your DAW with the real thing. Automation on the plugin is better through once setup.
Do u know. Any. Budget or cheaper battery fits. To an original 606. As u seem knowledgeable
@@neuroscope9052 I bought almost new Virus B even after watched tons of videos with OSTirus. I found that original B still sounds better because of it's hardware converters or something else
Nice one!!!
@@neuroscope9052 Agreed on Virus B, the best, - and let's not forget there is a 3rd party VST librarian/editor so you can do hardware automation for all Virus I think from the DAW. Wish I could remember the company who makes the editor. Hope they are still in business, it's been a while since I've had the DAW running - Mystical Pineapples or something like that.
WOW... i was literally just coming across stuff like this! it's sort of buried deep within reddit comments, it wasn't the sort of thing being covered by channels so thanks for making this video!
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!
this is amazing for synth preservation, i installed the virus one and it sounds great
Agreed!!!
I’ve been dreading the moment when you would start varying this show’s format, but this is perfect. Well done!
Thank you!!! Also feel free to check out the other non-Bad Gear videos on the channel...
AudioPilz is perfect. What more do you want?! 😂❤
some of those vocoder shoutouts would wreak havoc in a dark room in berlin at 8am holy moly
Lol, so true!
East Berlin in the 80's?
Thanks for ticking all the boxes, Florian! Love you
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Ryan George Pitch Meetings are TIGHT!
Wow, wow,...
@@AudioPilz ............. wow.
No need to run multiple instances if you use multimode. It's also important to know that one instance of the plugin will always use a fixed amount of CPU, no matter how many voices or parts you use. Alternatively, using the snow fw will halve the CPU consumption.
Thank you for the heads up
The Usual Suspects guys are legends!
Agreed!!!
an authentic virus TI to go alongside my analog gear? SICK. the intro to this video was perfect.
Thank you!!!
This is pretty amazing! Thanks for introducing that webpage!
Always a pleasure;)
Everyone deserves to be able to play an arpeggiator opening by covenant or vnv nation
Word!!!
LFG! Praying to god that Novation Supernova/Nova emulation comes at some point
I’d love to see that too
This one is a certified hood classic
Agreed!!!
Props to you using the spdif out! Why this is my favorite synth
😀😀😀
Made OsTirus and Osiris on a Rpi5 with raspbian and runs pretty well, but had those dropouts from time to time running it on single mode. On multi mode things get worse but not horribly. On my Ryzen 7 5800x though works with no issue in windows. These people from the 56300 community are wizards.
Thanks for the heads up!!!
I have waited for this 2 years.
Seeing this now is just beautiful!
😀😀😀
There's also Quasar Beach for the Fairlight CMI mk II.
Thanks for the heads up!!!
That's actuallly a different thing though. It doesn't use any Fairlight code although it has the look and feel of the Fairlight OS.
@@markgriffiths5122 But I found it around the time I found the emulators discussed here. He should do a compilation!
No relation to Quasimidi quasar?
@@Maschinestorm Afraid so
Very nice of you to give them a deserved shout.
😀😀😀
I just spent the last couple days getting some of these these running, what a coincidence lol
Can't wait for their Nord emulation.
Yeah, it's quite a hype atm
Can you give any hints on where to find the bin files?
The 'Nodal' (NL2x) is still in beta. But what I can say, well worth the wait.
@@TooSlowTube All I can say is I WOULD not google dbwbp.....
omg i was just getting this vst to work last week. thanks for the extra info broseph
Always a pleasure;) thanks!!!
I recognize that Virus pad at 6:00 from the beginning of "Rock The Funky Beat” by the Natural Born Chillers
Classic!
Came here to say this as well! I instantly played Rock the funky beats in my head! :D
Somebody in the house say YEAH!!!
This is dope (as we used to say in the 90's), thanks! The synth examples sounded identical except the software seemed to say a different chord at one point.
I’ll double check the chords, thanks for the heads up!
@@AudioPilz I was joking
I looked up whether the Proteus 2000 line of sound modules had the DSP56300 (it likely has the MC68020 instead as the CPU), but it seems I have to rely on the aging Emulator X3 for that kind of sound until Windows no longer can run it due to eventual API changes. I likely can look up how its filters work, which are pretty good.
For a potential bad gear episode, I recommend the XL-7, which is the even more controversial groovebox version of the already controversial Xtreme Lead rack module (rompler cosplaying as a virtual analog synth).
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
@@AudioPilzyes emu xl-7 should be an episode for sure. It’s awful in so many ways but built like a tank!
I bought Sweetwater's very last Virus TI2 they had in stock a few years back. Love it, and thankfully the PC control VST still works, but also I am overjoyed that emulation is so competent now.
Nice one!!!
@@DoctorSoctopus I bought one of Andertons final TI2s last year. Sold it on recently because Ostirus does a great job. But I actually miss the proper TI2 software. Wish I could run Ostirus using it.
Here every Friday, for that Big Knob Energy, and you never ket us down, Florian …
❤️❤️❤️Have a nice weekend!!!❤️❤️❤️
~1:58 Hey, good on Waldorf!!
~7:33 Haha, that's great.
Good work as always, and awesome idea for a video. I think stuff like this is really cool, and a fantastic way to get some good synths for free. Neat vocoder shoutout as per usual!
*CHRIS CEBELENSKI*
Haha, looking forward to what you'll be bringing us in the future!
I made the one at 7:33 great to see it in the video, made my day haha :)
Thank you for the meme! Much appreciated!!!
@@AudioPilz all good :)
@@darwiniandudeOh, cool; nice job!
Those Patreon shout outs now feel like familiar friends I've heard their names so often lol. Incidentally the Virus B emu runs perfectly on my decade old Win 10 PC. Installed it about 6 months ago but still not found the time to delve deep.
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!
The Pilz!! Over three minutes before you got to the jams!! That has to be a record!!
😀
Love the format. Love the delivery. @AudioPilz, this is genius
Thank you!!!
Dream synth, for sure! (90s kid here) Nice one! 😃👍
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I love my TI desktop
I got it around 2008
It’s so powerful
I’ll never sell it
But I’m excited for the renewed interest in it, I’m hoping it leads to more contemporary patches and sound design experiments or tutorials
And been meaning to play with the emulator for the convenience of having access to those sounds when connecting the hardware isn’t convenient
👍👍👍
I was hoping you'd do a video on this! I picked up a Virus TI Snow after Access announced they were officially ending production. I can feel good about using OsTIrus now. 😏
Yesssss
The benefit of devices like Nord Rack or Access Virus is not the sounds (which i find inferior to some VSTi's like Surge or Diva), but having a hardware control panel. I'm much more comfortable tweaking a patch using knobs rather than hovering with the mouse pointer over the screen.
Besides (i still have to check out the idea myself), you can run a hardware polisynth through a mixer with a fader and do volume sweeps. Good for filmscore music. Unless of course you prefer to program those sweeps in your DAW also.
There’s some truth to that!
Thomas Deifenbach is experiencing some indigestion.
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3:04 this jam is amazing on so many levels. Such great choice of sounds for those parts.
Thank you so much!!!
So basically Behringer has everything ready to make a Birus TI ❤
Lol, true!
Very enjoyable video. Good jam as usual, great memes, and bonus info, since I was intending on trying them out myself soon (in a few weeks/months/year?), but had no intention of doing comparisons with the original hardware myself.
Thank you so much!!!
I'm totally not going to use this video as a jumping off point for maybe illegally installing a Virus plugin into my DAW. Absolutely not. No way.
NEVER!!!
Definitely going to check this out. I am already loving the Arturia Synclavier V which is the actual synth engine of the original hardware and sports a pretty cool version of the Synclav's keyboard and DEC monitor UI.
Nice!
5:57 "Admiral, There be whales here!"
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Good call :D I was expecting one of them Shepard tones, but it didn't go anywhere...
Love the idea of people being able to play a soft version of the virus. Especially for free. Thats awesome info to share!!!
A few years ago I traded a Mother 32 and $500 for a Virus Ti-1 desktop and it’s by far the best VA I ever owned. After a while of owning it I realized I didn’t need to buy anything else, then I bought a Tasty Chips GR-1 to go with it, and sold about half of everything else I owned. The great purge lol
Speaking of Tasty Chips GR-1, that would make a great bad gear episode.
Great suggestion, thanks!
You know if these synths, especially the Virus TI, were available for sale as plugins I'd happily give them my money
Same here!
Check Adam Szabo his Viper vst 😎
6:51, yes, and that is also the case with the discontinued synths like Nord Lead or MicroQ. Some argue that you need to own the hardware synth to use its OS, but although I do own the MicroQ I am not allowed to use their system in my PC that is not hardware MicroQ.
I was hoping for a Bad Gear episode about the first Virus Rack.
Great suggestion, thank you!!!
Don't forget the big red machine.. Nord Engine, or was it already a thing?
This is super cool. It might finally get me to use VSTs. For now though, I just verified the test program spits out a pristine demo song, and the rest is saved to play with later.
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bro Arjun Iyer is actually one of my buddies from college! this is crazy!
Nice!!! Such a great guy!
Thanks as always! You may be the first synth activist now.
Thank you but wasn’t that The Synthpunk?;)
@@AudioPilz perhaps I did not tick all the boxes there… I have not given The Synthpunk a first glance…
After all these years…is it time for me to to leave the bay and join my fellowship of pirates again?? 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Harr
I own a Virus A and can’t justify the cost to add a TI/TI2 to my setup.
I installed this and really enjoy it and don’t feel too conflicted about it. I haven’t gone down the road of the Waldorf versions yet.
Virus A stands for Awesome;)
love the speech intelligibility of the moog 😮😃
"speech" "intelligibility"😂😂😂
@@AudioPilz 😂😂😂
First, Osirus and Ostirus are amazing. I've not experienced spiky performance issues. I'm using Linux with a 13th gen processor and 32GB of RAM. I'm using Jack with a 48K samplerate. I've used it in Reaper as a CLAP plugin and have in a couple of cases also been using the CLAP plugin version of VCV Rack in the same arrangement. Again, no issues. If you're making a song with lots of instruments, it is often advisable to bounce some things down to audio and disable those instruments. Just a basic part of life on any OS with any DAW. I've had more issues in Bitwig than Reaper, because Reaper is so much lighter than Bitwig.
Thank you for the heads up!
There's a saying that when taxi drivers talk about good investments it's time to sell your stock. When larger youtube channel stat talking about the Motorola 56300 series you know manufactueres will have to take measures to project their IP/firmware, and the fun is over. Some things are better left unsaid. But aren't we men all chatty women deep inside?
There’s some truth to all of this
I wish I never sold my TI. 😭😢
It was beautifully made, sounded awesome but I had it before I really knew what I was doing with writing and mixing music. I got it when I was first starting out 20 years ago and went crazy with my hobby buying a bunch of stuff I didn't need or know what to do with. I have no idea how I had the money, because I certainly don't now!!
Everything about the Virus TI felt high-end. The knobs had the right resistance and touch, the lights were mesmerising and of course, the presets were mind-blowing and you could make your own sounds so quickly I had more patches saved from that synth than any other VST-i I I own even to this day.
I feel you❤️❤️❤️
I bet there will come a time when people will start desoldering DSP chips from broken items just to keep the 90s synths going with spares.
It happens;)
Who wants this Motorola chip?!!
Who wants this Motorola?!!
I've actually already done this with my Novation Nova..I purchased it non functioning and replaced it with a N.O.S. DSP chip from eBay.
As an owner of 2 dead Nova Laptops (power supplies and led screens rip, faulty encoders, which I replaced several times.) I would love to have accurate emulations of them. I am a legit owner. I even have the firmwares, etc. I love my Novas, they were great when running. I wish Novation would watch this video and get busy making the emulations themselves. My credit card would be available to them (again) with 24 hours of release. Thanks for the video.
What's a nova laptop?? Never seen that one !
@@MichaelDowComposer You can see it quickly in the video at 53 seconds. "When even Behringer asks....Why?"
I have a Nova too, just waiting to “hear” the VST someday soon.
@@niiranen We may be waiting awhile for that, amigo.
Sorry to hear about the novas😢
Natural born chillers! 😁 Can't wait Behringer to put these firmwares on a chip that suicides if you try to read it (they're a thing) and then sell the Bhirus for 200€ 😂
Baldorf;)
A bit like those pieces of paper that selfdestruct in Mr. Gadget? Lol.
Nice "Groke" pfp btw ;)
(we call her Hufsa in Norway)
@@Vingul Us natives to it call it "Mörkö" 😁
@@pirateradioFPV Kind of surprised I didn't know that, but then again Jansson wrote it in Swedish ^^ have several books and many VHS'es still.. even a finlandssvenska DVD edition of Moominpappa's adventures, lol. Can't put away all "childish" things.
Of all the goofy things, far from whetting my appetite to switch to VST plug-ins, the presence of the Virus TI module in the foreground suddenly made my palms itch for a Virus *C* module. Of all the Virus iterations that hit the market before Access began shunting all its attention to the Kemper Profiler range of guitar amp/effect modelers, the Virus C is the one that has held my attention, despite it now being over 20 years old as of my comment.
Virus C is awesome
The pirate in me loves that these are open and available emulators, and the fact that the hardware is discontinued makes them fair game.
With that being said, I wouldn't be upset if the original HW manufacturers hired them (or took a cut) and made the products commercial. Make them officially supported products. Everyone wins. The product is legal, the original creators make bank with zero effort, and the creators of the emulators also take a cut whilst ensuring that the product is supported commercially.
Agreed!!!
Back in 1992 I tried to make a sampler based on the 56000 as my final year degree project. Think I overstepped the mark a bit, but at least it seems I was using the right technology.
Wow, you're a pioneer!
Having access to so many instruments and sounds via emulations might be kind of a double edge sword. You get access to all the Bad Gear you want. But too many options can be overwhelming and hinder the creative process. IDK I think I'm more creative when my options are very limited
Im more creative when i am organized and stuff is ez to find but u do u
@@joshuaschmalle_vlogs there's a psychology concept that could be at play called the Paradox of Choice. it specifically focuses on consumer options. but it basically says eliminating choices can reduce anxiety. like, you could do the research on 10 options of car manufacturers to figure out which is best for you. but if you had 1000 options of car manufacturers, you'd never figure it out.
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@@baltimoreluke The paradox of choice applies to different brands of the same type of paint brush, not for different types of paint brushes that are different.
Idk the more options I have the deeper i can explore something.
I have the Virus TI desktop. I took it out of storage a couple of years ago to find that it would not boot. After a factory reset all the patches I collected from the now defunct community of users were all gone. Virus used to host patches made by Virus users all ranked by other users and it was really easy to import them into one of the many available empty slots. The VST plugin for a DAW used to work like any other VST but it served as a remote control for the Virus hardware. I was unable to get that plugin to work on my Mac. The hardware has a USB port and 6 x 1/4" outputs and 2 x 1/4" inputs along with SPDIF and MIDI 5din in/out/thru. The sounds on this thing are really good and stand up to the best soft synths you can get today.
I wanted to figure out how I could revive the thing and get it integrated into my setup, but learning today that there's some emulations available seems like a better quest.
Support is definitely lacking now
This emulator kicks ass of original Virus out of the market. Brilliant idea and implementation. Gives us more then Behringer clones - it gives us originals for free.
Agreed!!!
@@AudioPilz, BTW, someone wants to rent you Alesis Fusion (or Andromeda) for review. From Hamburg to Vienna or similar trip. It was a year ago, possibly. How it's going?)
Thx, for all the memes and the valuable info! (:
Always a pleasure;)
One view in twenty two seconds bro really fell off 😎
Numbers can be deceiving;)
More like YT can't keep up with all these views 🔥🔥🔥
I have all the plugins installed, except for Nodal Red 2x, and the devs surely have done an excellent job on all the plugins.
Agreed!!!
@@AudioPilz Thank goodness this isn't a bad gear episode. lmao.
damn, this is incredible! I got rid of Virus Snow some years ago but now I can dig up some of the old patches 😄i've had some nasty latency and connectivity issues with it and it was running out of polyphony really quick, which was a pain in the ass. This is surely solved by just having this fully in the box, I used to program this thing by the vst anyway.
Heard a few bad things about the snow…
Simply because of the Mickey Rourke meme at 5:51
Thank you so much!!! Gotta love Mickey;)
Come for the synths, stay for the Commander Keen 4
soundwise its basically the same... fx a/d converter can play a role but the virus is a VA synth based on a engine that has been cloned without any loss of mojo. older nodles having a analoge filter i guess ... evntually might sound different but nothing that a eq could not fix
Agreed!!!
Virus is my favorite synth and since Access makes synths no more, I am very pleased to have these plugin emulators.
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A useful Bad Gear video?!?!?! Awesome. We are pleased.
Always a pleasure;)
Finally, it's time for a classic Bad Gear review of the Access Virus Ti2 😈
It really deserves some criticism for the Ti implementation, that's for sure. It's always nice to see something I own and know getting the Bad Gear treatment.
Let's see if we can find an excuse for that!
got the Ostirus working on my MacBook Air m3 - I would have loved to use my hardware ti but is does not have compatable software for Somona . It looks and sounds the same to my ears . New another piece of gear is hidden for the time caple .
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Love my TI2. The price I had to pay for it in Rand when they're now effectively free... not so much. But being DAWless helps a lot!
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I own the hardware TI2, Micro Q and Lead 2X, they wont last forever so it's nice to know that they will always be preserved by software. I hope they can do this with the Elektron Machinedrum one day, I would be lost without those sounds
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I got it working on my Mac! I used my original Access website log-in to get the necessary files. Now I can put my TI Desktop hardware (which I wasn't using anyway) back into storage.
Nice!
Virus is good tier. Incredibly rich and diverse sounds that are beautiful.
Agreed!!!
The Virus Ti2 is a lovely sounding synth, and excellent keyboard, but the control interface always felt like it had way too few knobs and controls.
There is no thing like too many knobs!
Yup. With my TI I had to use it as the SP/DIF as the clock source, too. I'd get sync errors if I tried to use my Forcusrite Scarlett 18i20 3rd gen as the clock source.
Seems like they never really fixed that
Weeee another great friday content upload
Have a great weekend too!
I heard that Reveal Sound Spire was inspired by Virus TI, also it has filter mode that emulates Virus filter
Thanks for the heads up!!!
7:23 "Bob designed the layout of the Virus T1 keyboard"
Just about lost it on that one hahahahahaaa!
Lol
Happy Friday Florian!
Have a great weekend!!!
You have been instrumental in the rise of the machines. The bloody thing is a box of untangled memories, a delicacy for the soul.
A delicacy indeed!
thank you for bringing this to my attention. i will surely NOT use these softwares and i do NOT already have them extracting to my vst folder. i will CERTAINLY let the manufacturers know that someone is emulating their synthesizer, and i will NOT continue to use these
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At first glance the DSP56300 is ticking all my boxes
Virus, Nord, Waldorf. It's just a matter of time that I can basically use half of my studio both tactile and as a plugin. And I am really happy with that in the case of the Waldorf Microwave XT/ Xenia.
Aside of that, I am really happy with the tactile control. Using less screens always improves my creativity and life in tracks ❤
DSP56300 FTW!!!
@@AudioPilz Yeah! Looking for a real Korg MS2000. I guess that will be emulated sooner or later as well
Best thing that ever happened in VST imho...
Haven't tested it enough... no CPU issues so far.
Thanks for the heads up!!!