The Access Virus is a very cool, German made desktop synth-module. It quickly became a very popular and favorite 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 digitally re-create analog sounds. German precision got it right! The Virus has an incredibly punchy and clean analog sound that can give you anything from low sub-woofer blowing basses to overdriven 303-style lead lines! The module is layed 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 realtime. With 12 note polyphony and 16 multitimbral parts, the Virus is all you need to create complete and vibrant electronic music tracks!

Technical specifications

Polyphony: 12 voices
Oscillators: 2 Osc per voice plus 1 Sub-Osc: Sine, tri, saw, variable width pulse, oscillator sync. 1 FM Mode: 64 digital FM spectral waveforms.
LFO: 2 per voice with tri, saw down, square, sample/hold, sample/glide and more
VCF: 2 independent resonant filters; lowpass, hipass, bandpass, band reject, parallel, split & 2 serial modes with up to 36dB/voice (6-poles), overdrive/saturation.
VCA: 2 ADSTR envelopes per voice
ModMatrix: 3 Sources, 6 Destinations
Effects: Up to 22 simultaneous effects: 4 Chorus effects, Global Reverb/Delay, Vocoder
Memory: 256 ROM patches, 256 RAM patches, 128 multi RAM patches
Control: MIDI (16 multitimbral parts)