Access Virus TI Sounds Part 4 - Self Programmed Sounds - The last sound group from the old batch

video upload by Friendly Noise

"First introduced in 1997, the Access Virus and all his following variations are without doubt one of the most iconic and used synthesizers in the 21st century. The last versions of the Virus are full of details with a real musical function, like three oscillators, three LFOs, dual multimode filters (+ comb and formant modes), great modulation matrix and effect section, FM, ring modulation, wavetable, Hypersaw (kind of Rolandish-Supersaw)… to name a few features. With that power, the Virus can cover all the basics for different kinds of musical styles. A 16 part multimode and great polyphony can deliver all the sounds you need for whole songs… providing you like the characteristic sound of the Virus. Some love it, some hate it. Was the amazing polyphony achieved at the cost of the high end? The Virus is not the brightest synth in the town, but how much do you care about that?

The sounds are illustrated with pictures of my own Virus. There is no video, because those are old recordings, made long time ago before I started recording videos. The purpose of the recordings was exclusively for personal use, a way to remember sounds I liked. Some of the recordings can be useful today in order to get familiar with the sound of the featured instruments, so I decided to upload them. In fact, no video is an advantage: you can do other things while just listening to the sounds. :-)

All sounds were programmed by myself.

Video sections:

00:06 Start Pad
01:27 Hypersaw
02:21 Hypersaw + Rate Reducer
04:46 Moog Style Filter
07:44 Ring Modulation
10:41 More Ring Modulation
11:46 Arpeggio
12:45 Sequence + Rate Reducer
14:02 Superpad
15:06 Resonant Sounds
17:01 Nice Internal Effects
18:33 More Hypersaw"