Description | The Access Virus is a desktop synth-module. It quickly became a very popular and favourite synth with its aggressive analog sounds. It's got knobs, analog synth sounds and drums and a whole lot more. The Virus uses physical-modeling to re-create analog sounds. The Virus has a punchy and clean analog sound that can give you anything from low sub-woofer blowing basses to overdriven lead lines. The module is laid out with a very intuitive design that even old-school synthesists will feel right at home with. It has 32 knobs and 27 buttons, all of which allow tweaking in real-time. With 12 note polyphony and 16 multi timbral parts, the Virus is all you need to create complete and vibrant electronic music tracks.
Later when the Virus B came out, the original Virus became commonly referred to as Virus A (Even Access calls it Virus A on their website)
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| Brand | Access |
| Model | Virus A |
| Device | Synth |
| Type | Desktop |
| Engine Type | Digital |
| Engine | VA |
| Voices (max) | 12 |
| Multitimbral | 16 |
| Oscillators | 2 |
| Sub | Y |
| LFO | 2 per voice with tri, saw down, square, sample/hold, sample/glide and more |
| Engine Detailed | 2 Osc per voice plus 1 Sub-Osc: Sine, tri, saw, variable width pulse, oscillator sync. 1 FM Mode: 64 digital FM spectral waveforms. |
| Filter (VCF) | 2 INDEPENDENT multimode filters: lowpass, hipass, bandpass, band reject, parallel, split & 2 serial modes with up to 36db/voice (6 poles) |
| Envelope (VCA) | 2 ADSTR envelopes per voice |
| FX | Up to 22 simultaneous effects: 4 Chorus effects, Global Reverb/Delay, Vocoder |
| Memory | 256 ROM patches, 256 RAM patches, 128 multi RAM patches |
| Keys | 0 |
| Key type | N/A |
| Velocity | N/A |
| Aftertouch | N/A |
| Audio | 6 out, 2 in |
| Midi | I-O |
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Produced: | 1997 - 1999 |
| Legend: |
Obvious |
Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable |
| VCO |
Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
DCO |
Digital Controlled Oscillator |
| LFO |
Low Frequency Oscillator |
Sub |
Sub Oscillator |
| VCF |
Voltage Controlled Filter |
VCA |
Voltage Controlled Amplifier |
| Velocity |
As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. |
Aftertouch |
Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel. |
| Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise. |
