I just made 3 shamefully aweful videos improvising some stuff with the virus TI and a Mopho keyboard polychained to a Tetra. The Mopho is lined into the VIrus for FX and the tetra is lined directly into my mixer.
The yellow keybard is the mopho, while the big silver/grey keyboard is a novation 61Sl MkII station controlling my Virus Ti desktop I. Hopefully you can get past my drunken playing and just enjoy the beatyful soundscape these two (three) machines create together. Whenever I just play around with anything and the Virus I just can't get enough of playing with the TI Tape delay and the reverb clock sync/feedback... I mean these two features are just so deep and fun to fiddle with live.
If I'm not playing with the Virus solo, I at least use the virus as an extremely competent FX box for my analog gear at least once a day, and it is beautiful. I do not regret buying this piece of german gear.
As you can see in these videos I am enjoying myself greatly, and this is while drunk. I don't think you can understand how much my virus Ti and other equipment give me pleasure unless you've got some gear yourself. It is an enourmous creative outlet for me... almost therapy to just play around with the gear each day. Some days it's arpeggios and FX, other days it is me playing and performance.
Thank the gods for hardware synthesizers, and thank you Access music (and Dave smith instruments) for building such fun gear for me to play with.
Again, Access music, you may be known for trance, but you haven't got a clue how much broader your gear can be used if you think trance is all. The tape delay alone is so beautiful it's almost bringing tears to my eyes right now. It's just so much fun, creatively and sonically. I feel ashamed that I cannot show you just how much I have enjoyed it and that you're only privy to these enebriated examples.
I guess this is a love story between two (three) pieces of musical gear, the Virus TI and the DSI Mopho/Tetra. That's not completely true... it's a love story between a man and his gear. I think I understand Kraftwerk's The Pocket Calculator now.
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EDIT: Day after. Why do I do these things? :facepalm: