Phantom oscillator

  • The more I play with the virus the more I find things about it I cant figure out. For example, theres this patch called "Luv (at) PX" which for me is on eROM-L #65.


    The oscillator balance is set all the way to 1. There is no OSC Balance modulation that I can see happening anywhere. Yet I can hear the F-shift of oscillator 2.


    What is going on here? How am I able to hear The F-shift of OSC2 if the OSC balance is 100% set to OSC1?

  • There’s a low amount of ring modulation between the oscillators dialled in. See OSC view bottom right corner.

    Bass Player and Synthesist.
    Virus TI2 Darkstar | Virus TI2 Desktop | Sub 37 | Voyager RME | Machinedrum | Analog Four | Digitone | MPC Live | NI Maschine+
    Mac OS 13.5.1 (Ventura) | Cubase Pro 11.0 | Ableton Live 9.6 | Logic 10.4 | MainStage 3.4 | NI Komplete Ultimate 13 | RME Fireface UFX+

  • Yes, it’s quite fascinating. AFAIR, ring modulation uses both oscillators to modulate each other and can introduce a lot of unexpected cool coloration and movement. But it’s also quite heavy on the CPU.

    Bass Player and Synthesist.
    Virus TI2 Darkstar | Virus TI2 Desktop | Sub 37 | Voyager RME | Machinedrum | Analog Four | Digitone | MPC Live | NI Maschine+
    Mac OS 13.5.1 (Ventura) | Cubase Pro 11.0 | Ableton Live 9.6 | Logic 10.4 | MainStage 3.4 | NI Komplete Ultimate 13 | RME Fireface UFX+