Anyone tried this? In fact I own Access Virus TI, but recently thinking of having its “mobile” version for doing sound desing out of studio. Namely, having AR and A4 totally changed my perception of hardware instrument in a way that i’ve started actually to produce my own sounds and explore instrument maximum possibilities. I is not only about fantastic Elektron architecture and workflow, but its also possibility to take out one piece of gear and get away from the studio environment. Obviously, I couldn’t do it with TI because because I would also need a notebook. I own TI for almost 20 years and mostly used it as preset box.
So this emulator might enable me to take notebook whenever I want and do sounddesing for TI. Im trying to figure out if it is possible to save and export presets made in this “emulator environment” and import it in TI hardware?
This looks very interesting! How is one supposed to acquire the “rom” mentioned in the post?
if you are asking how to: the ROM for the Virus B or Virus C will need to be placed in the root of this folder for it to work (we can not provide ROM files, so you will need to make your own arrangements)
im also curious how…not sure that I understand this
Yes, that’s exactly where I’m at with it. It appears that it emulates the virus processor, and the “rom” is the program which utilizes the processor, basically, the virus operating system itself?
On an unrelated note, Adam Szabo’s Viper does really well to imitate the Virus sound and is a fairly affordable VST. I’m not sure how it would compare with this emulation, it seems like the emulation should be an exact copy of the Virus?
Looking forward to installing this later and giving it a shot, thank you for sharing!
I was just wondering the other day if it was possible to emulate fully digital synths and if so why don’t I hear about it more often. Cool.
I read in several places that you should get literally the same sound with emulator (some other synths like Nord are mentioned also)
if you figure out this part with ROM, share here please
It’s quite cpu heavy but sounds good.
I haven’t got it working on M1 yet but it worked on my old Mac ( badly) and my pc ( quite well)
I just went through presets using program change messages , I haven’t got the control surface working yet.
You can find the rom via google search
sounds kind of like when you download a PlayStation emulator and they can’t provide the bios files for legal reasons. Basically just some other files you need to download separately to make it work, these sorts of things are usually easy to find just by googling it as @re5et said
Mind you, you‘re into well dodgy territory with this, proceed at your own risk.
would love to see a monomachine emulator. I found a fully functional mpc 2000 emulator the other day which was kind of interesting
@Hans_Olo how so? I can’t imagine there’s significantly more risk than emulating games or streaming a movie which is practically risk free, unless you mean some other risk I’m missing
Access has the copyright on these ROMs, which is an issue in most jurisdictions.
If you already own one I think you are allowed to use the ROM but yea this is a big legal footgun. I would not venture down this path. Not recommended.
Obligatory: I am not a lawyer.
I tried it on a MacBook Air M1 … it really is a nice proof of concept and it is pretty amazing. On a 2013 MacBook I could not play 2 notes with it and the CPU would go completely nuts. M1 no issues and something like 3% good to know that it would be totally possible to run a Virus as VST or AU. So far no GUI.
But as I have a TI it was more to see what it can do than actually using it.
ROMs can be found in Google easily
A quick google search yielded a few options for downloading the rom for virus b/c and a long list of other synths as well.
To clarify
It sounds identical because it’s running the exact same roms
There’s a lot of ‘discussion’ ( arguing and clarification) about this on the gearspace forum , summary is it’s the same as virus is not analog, all digital.
Yes - it’s like playing game emulation , I’m surprised it hadn’t happened years ago but cpu demands are high.
I used it so make a few bass sample sets as it’s just single notes with no fx. If computer is quick enough it’ll match hardware except for tactile control surface
If I run it with mpc autosampler will the audio glitch as it’s basically playing live and not rendering it like a DAW? Running on a pretty decent PC. Would like to make some keygroups. People seem to love virus sound so I’m sure it will be good for it
Got it up an running pretty easily!
These instructions pretty much covering everything you need. DSP56300 Emulation Blog
I wonder why only the B and C are available, is the TI/TI2 that much more demanding?
Maybe there is some way to use the original access ti2 editor vst to utilize the rom emulator?
Currently trying to figure out the best way to get VST host audio out into a track on reaper or ableton if anyone has any advice.
I believe it has to do with using more than one of those Motorola/Freescale DSPs which is much harder to emulate Also the DSPs might be more powerful and that might be too much even with todays cpu power.