Oh no no no no don't do this to me I currently don't have space here even for a TB303...
It definitely thinks it's a virus, I mean look at the design and the knobs are probably the same. Not as fat sounding as a virus, wonder how much it will be priced. Wouldn't say it has a distinct character, which may be good or bad. No WT import! Start up company, hmmmm...even if I get it, I definitely won't be an early adopter.
Even one of their demo songs funnily enough is called "dark star"...
From the specs:
"Dual PCM wavetables provide you with 4,096 waves"
Too many waves per too few tables. I suspect these are not really wavetables in the classic sense, but rather two banks of unrelated spectral waves. If so, I wonder if it will provide any kind of index modulation or wave sequencing? But really....4,096 waves?? Are they sure that's enough? 
And will they be grouped into manageable categories?
"2 groups of 5 oscillators per voice"
For me, any more than 3 oscillators is overkill unless you are going for multi-timbral single patches.
And its ugly, but hey, I'm Mr. Superficial.
If some like it that's ok, but I'm perfectly happy with my TI2, thank you. 
What a massively bad ripoff !!!
even the same fonts on the layout same names for things same knobs same pots...,.
and totally not impressed by the sound.
sounds a bit like beta version of a bad vst....
nice try but far off from a Virus !
Nice, but.... 8 part multitimbral (for a 1280voice synth) and USB 2.0? seriously? :facepalm:
Access did not make Virus TI3 so perhaps someone else did...
Although the initial consensus around here about this new synth appears unfavorable, I still appreciate Ecaroh giving us the heads up on it as I always appreciate being made aware of new equipment coming on the scene. Thanks Ecaroh! 
Given that there's zero chance of a TI3 at this point, I think it's kind of exciting. My TI2 ain't gonna last forever.
It definitely thinks it's a virus, I mean look at the design and the knobs are probably the same. Not as fat sounding as a virus, wonder how much it will be priced.
i've played it. it's not a virus at all, even though many design decisions he took are apparently heavily inspired
I listened to all demos & even if some sounds really similar to a Virus, other sounds bring to my mind the Blofeld and Microwave XT...not a Virus clone, a great synth, but personally something I don't need right now.
Virus is masterpiece from design and sound perspective.
Companies should invest more time building their own hardware brand before going public.
i've played it. it's not a virus at all, even though many design decisions he took are apparently heavily inspired
Yeh exactly, that's why I said that IT thinks its a virus IMHO this is most obvious attack on the virus directly...
that's good
the action causes a reaction.
maybe we'll see something new from Access?
they're are selling it like it's a final / perfect product and world isn't changing.
The same could be said about the violin, or a Stratocaster. Or the Minimoog.
Personally, I prefer that behavior over a company (like Clavia, and many others), who try to sell me a new 3kEur keyboard every other year, just because it has a new feature (that was deliberately omitted in the previous model).
Back to the Valkyrie: I watched more demos and although it is a nice, probably very good sounding synth, it's actually pretty boring and based on the same old concepts everybody else has been doing for years or even decades. And except for the raw processing power, number of oscillators and more elaborate FM synthesis, there's many things it cannot do which are already available in the Virus for years like Graintable Osc, Formant Osc, many Chorus types, many Distortion types, Filterbank filters (Formant, Comb), etc.
I would love to see that kind of processing power (1280 voices, 32 times oversampling) in a new Virus incarnation, but I wouldn't want to lose any of the current features.
Ok, let's try some thought experiement:
If the Valkyrie, exactly as it is, was actually released by Access, labelled as Virus TI3 and sold for the same price as the current TI2:
- would you rave about it and be happy?
- would you rush out and buy it?
(and to play devil's advocate.... "why not?!")
Alles anzeigenOk, let's try some thought experiement:
If the Valkyrie, exactly as it is, was actually released by Access, labelled as Virus TI3 and sold for the same price as the current TI2:
- would you rave about it and be happy?
- would you rush out and buy it?
(and to play devil's advocate.... "why not?!")
No to both, since I have an investment in Virus patches. If it could load Virus patches and sound the same (i.e. pretty-much a clone), I might be interested when my Virus started to keel over.
I'm not in the market for yet another digital synth at the minute.
This, on the other hand, is actually a quite innovative hardware synth:
Reviving this thread... for those that followed NAMM 2019, waldorf did release the Kyra (valkery), do you guys still think it's a spiritual successor to Ti2? To me, it doesn't sound like a virus or how I imagined a TI3 would sound like, but it has a lot similar characteristics/specs to the TI series...
Waldorf... hm. To my understanding, Kyra is still a prototype. And the Blofeld is still in beta... 
