My Virus Story (Not for the weak hearted)

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JDMMADE

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Monday, September 7th 2009, 9:40am

My Virus Story (Not for the weak hearted)

Hey everyone! I just wanted to share my touching story on how I finally came to own my dream machine, and I do not joke when I say dream machine =)

Back in 2003 was when I finally got reliable broadband internet, cable.... So I was so intrigued by synths ever since I had my first keyboard. They made decent sounds, not real or amazing sounding, but great cheap 8 bit sounds, like a Casio (yuck) I think everyone has owned one of those.....Anyways, I was surfing the internet and had no knowledge of any pro keyboards, so I began my searching from guitar center to Sam Ash furiously looking for a keyboard that looked cool and sounded amazing. I saw all these crazy new technologies with synths that finally sounded ok in quality of sound. After my researching was done inside stores, I really could not find any synths that sounded near the quality of trance or electronic music that I listened to at the time. Until one day.... I was searching a retailers website and I said heck I'll look for the most expensive one, then BOOM! I saw this Awesome looking Synth it was called the Virus KC, at that time I was a kid at the age of 15 so there was no way in hell I was able to afford something like that! Everyday of my life I would go to Access-music.de EVERYDAY and listen to all these amazing sounds they had! From the Endorphines sound demo to the Virus C Factory Demo, I listened and listened....... sadly but truly, there were days when I would cry at nights and in bed because I knew I could not have anything from the Virus line because of its hefty price tag. Eventually I grew up and years passed on but deeply stuck to the Virus series, something I deeply longed for.... especially knowing that it came from my home Country of Germany. It was more than a synth.... It was something magical and heart felt.... it was so alive. So not owning any Virus keyboards, I owned flimsy under powered machines, the MicroKORG, SH-201, KORG Radias. Then I saw the end of the TI's life I knew something big was going to happen..... my heart began to race waiting for NAMM, THE TI 2 WAS BORN, I KNEW IT...... I cried, it was so sleek such an amazing sight! 25% more POWER! I was overwhelmed. That was when I thought to myself in quick thinking of desperation..... You live only once and I am the type of person who understands that what you pay for is what you get, "That's it", I was getting the VIRUS TI 2.......... After being laid off I quickly began hunting for another job, quickly started jumping ladders until I finally got a decent job. I quickly started searching music retailers again, finding the best deals....... "I found it!" I asked questions for financing and tried to get the best deal..... I saved up.....FINALLY! after 6 FULL years of waiting, 6 years of something that was my purpose in life, I finally own the Machine of my dreams! I finally can rest in peace........ This feeling could never be replaced, ever......... I would never want it to change...... ever.

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Monomeester

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Location: Netherlands

Monday, September 7th 2009, 2:03pm

Good story for the most (some grammar mistakes).

Anyway, i feel you but for me it wasn't hard to get. Soon i will own a T1 and a T2

It's a good machine but dreammachine would be a machine wich can use full 16 parts no mather what fx put on them, thats a dreammachine. This is a raw wakeup machine as it starts losing sounds through the progress of exporting while only using 4 or 4 spores.

I vote for a T3 with 300% power of T2.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Monomeester" (Sep 11th 2009, 2:17pm)

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Monomeester

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Location: Netherlands

Monday, September 7th 2009, 2:04pm

4 or 5 that is!

why isn't it possible yet to edit text!

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berni

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Location: USA

Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 3:57am

So lets hear some music then...

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Matt

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Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 7:13am

Welcome JD! Thanks for the story, sounds similar to my synth lusting when I was just getting into synths. But I will not tell you the synth, because it will date me in the worst possible way

Matt

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maxim_porges

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Location: Orlando, FL

Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 3:41am

I'm in the same boat as you. I remember reading the reviews on the Virus series in Sound On Sound years ago, and lusting after the Indigo and then the TI series when it came out. Last year I turned 30, and bought myself a used TI off of eBay as a birthday present. It really is the best instrument I have ever owned - it sounds amazing, it *just works* beautifully with Logic (no messing around with tons of cables or latency or MIDI issues), and the interface on both the hardware and software is stunning.

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Celestry

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Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 10:20am

Quoted from "Monomeester"

Good story for the most (some grammar mistakes).

Anyway, i feel you but for me it wasn't hard to get. Soon i will own a T1 and a T2 It's a good machine but dreammachine would be a machine wich can use full 16 spores no mather what fx put on them, thats a dreammachine. This is a raw wakeup machine as it starts losing sounds through the progress of exporting while only using 4 or 4 spores.

I vote for a T3 with 300% power of T2.

Good post, but for the grammar. (^_^)

Always try to remember the basics of using the apostrophe. I can see you have tried, e.g. 'wasn't', but you're not entirely successful, e.g. 'thats'. Additionally, punctuation of sentences using the comma is, well, something I suppose we can all improve upon.

Of course, if you had the ability to edit your posts, perhaps I wouldn't have the chance to pick up on these, quite insignificant, errors. (^_^)

One more thing, if that's ok. While the letter H in words beginning in the letter W, may, at first, appear silent, it is indeed not silent. The word 'Which' is aspirated, and when pronounced correctly, the letter H initiates the short exhalation required to utter it so.

My intention is that my Virus will become an heirloom! (^_^)

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JDMMADE

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Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 6:52pm

I didn't know that this was a grammar test lol, should of told me..... hey I got a great idea lets have a spelling bee :thumbsup:

I was just trying to tell you my story and see if any of you felt like me....

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Monomeester

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Location: Netherlands

Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 7:18pm

@ Celestry i don't bother with grammar as i realy don't care. I know i can write proper dutch as well as english. Just as good as (omg edit button available! +1 for Matt) britisch or US people, but i didn't tell a story here. If i was about to tell you guys a story i would make sure it was perfectly written.

For the rest, no hard feelings.

@ JDMMADE

Well, thought it was just a fable or at least not a real story to be honest.

So that's why i said, if you write down a story (fable) at least write down without grammar mistakes.

But hey, i feel you, i realy do.But the story is just to much.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Monomeester" (Sep 9th 2009, 7:23pm)