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cubbyhouse
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Hello.
I just want to tell you my personal experience with a synth that I’ve bought for two months ago. The synth is: Access Virus KC, a synth that I had very big expectations of.
Well, if we are talking about the sounds and sound quality, I must say that I some times forget that I’m playing on a VA synth! Some sounds of this synth come scary close to a real analog synth like the Andromeda Alesis, and it must be using high end DA-converters because of the extreme sound quality.
The other side of this synth is the hardware quality! And that side is a VERY dark one! Both the knobs and piano keyboard sucks in quality. I have a 150$ Roland PC-180a midi controller with a 100 times more keyboard quality than the KC, and this Roland MIDI controller have been used every day for the last two years, even by kids playing for fun(!) -- It still feels like new! The KC I have played carefully on for a two months period, and the keyboard start now to give cracking sounds. I can’t even sell it for a normal used-price, because who want bad knobs and cracking piano keyboard? The knobs aren’t THAT bad, but one knob has a light fabric failure, and the others have lesser quality than the knobs on a cheap amplifier!
I have regretted many buys in my life, but this buy I regret most of them all! I regret so mush, as a computer musician, that I didn’t buy the XL rack! Then I would have the same sounds, the same sound quality and the same possibilities to make patches via Emagic Sound Diver. If you’re not a computer musician, for God sake; buy the C (desktop version) with a cheap MIDI controller, and maybe you will have a way better feeling after the buy than I have right now! :-(
But just so it is said: The Virus C is a killer in sound, but a looser in hardware quality. I would gladly saved some more money and given 1000$ more for a durable synth to have and own for many, many years. It’s sad that they don’t make a platinum or signature version with high end hardware quality for those who want to own a synth for many years, especially collectors. This one, I hope lasts until I get finish producing my album! Well, that is what I feel right now. And this is just MY experience, and I can have been unlucky with a real “bad Monday product”.
That’s all. Be ware! Don’t make the same mistake as I did!
-cubbyhouse-
I just want to tell you my personal experience with a synth that I’ve bought for two months ago. The synth is: Access Virus KC, a synth that I had very big expectations of.
Well, if we are talking about the sounds and sound quality, I must say that I some times forget that I’m playing on a VA synth! Some sounds of this synth come scary close to a real analog synth like the Andromeda Alesis, and it must be using high end DA-converters because of the extreme sound quality.
The other side of this synth is the hardware quality! And that side is a VERY dark one! Both the knobs and piano keyboard sucks in quality. I have a 150$ Roland PC-180a midi controller with a 100 times more keyboard quality than the KC, and this Roland MIDI controller have been used every day for the last two years, even by kids playing for fun(!) -- It still feels like new! The KC I have played carefully on for a two months period, and the keyboard start now to give cracking sounds. I can’t even sell it for a normal used-price, because who want bad knobs and cracking piano keyboard? The knobs aren’t THAT bad, but one knob has a light fabric failure, and the others have lesser quality than the knobs on a cheap amplifier!
I have regretted many buys in my life, but this buy I regret most of them all! I regret so mush, as a computer musician, that I didn’t buy the XL rack! Then I would have the same sounds, the same sound quality and the same possibilities to make patches via Emagic Sound Diver. If you’re not a computer musician, for God sake; buy the C (desktop version) with a cheap MIDI controller, and maybe you will have a way better feeling after the buy than I have right now! :-(
But just so it is said: The Virus C is a killer in sound, but a looser in hardware quality. I would gladly saved some more money and given 1000$ more for a durable synth to have and own for many, many years. It’s sad that they don’t make a platinum or signature version with high end hardware quality for those who want to own a synth for many years, especially collectors. This one, I hope lasts until I get finish producing my album! Well, that is what I feel right now. And this is just MY experience, and I can have been unlucky with a real “bad Monday product”.
That’s all. Be ware! Don’t make the same mistake as I did!
-cubbyhouse-