I’m the proud owner of a Virus TI keyboard. It’s an amazing analog synth from Germany. I have a lot to learn about it but for now I’m just amazed that I can record over USB to Cubase. No 1/4″ audio cables, pure digital.
This really cool guy at Chuck Levin’s and I talked for hours about music, pro gear, keyboards. He checked out my site and listened to a few tunes. It was a good time. He mentioned he knows a guy in Reflux. Pretty awesome.
It does synthy sounds really well, does “real” instruments pretty poorly. You can do drum and bass, rave, acid, trance stuff really easily with it (although I hate arpeggiators). I need a bag for it.
What was really cool is the software. Windows is a bit of a pain when you insert new hardware. It’s hard to explain but they made installing the drivers way easy. Even when I flashed the keyboard it had something cool going on:
Pretty funny.
More coming, for now, here’s a test tune I did. It’s very non-special but I’m testing and learning.
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Off-topic. My headphones don’t work in my apartment. The left headphone goes mute after about 5 minutes. Works fine in other places. They are new Sony MDR-V900HD headphones, must be sensitive to some electrical or environmental thing. The left one goes mute slowly even on my PSP. But when I took it to Guitar Center it worked for an hour.
I took it apart to look for shorts, no luck:
If you’ve had headphones do this, let me know.
Came off sounding like something Moby would do. I have no ending planned, this will likely fall by the way-side. The woman singing is Patti Smith. She broke out into song in the middle of a drugged-out beatnik poetry session. Other parts of the poem are in pew (no escape from TV).
