Every DnB Producer used this in the late 90's

[@STRANJAH]

The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/stranjah04231

[@bobmoegrabi]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!!

[@NoyaD9]

Since when i discovered your channel i started to try to reproduce the sounds you showcase on Serum/Massive with the Virus B... Want to thank you! I learned a lot out of them and trying to replicate the mechanics on another synth is quite fun

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

Did you succeed? Can Massive get close to Virus?If yes, I may try too.

[@NoyaD9]

Oh yes! Finally you made a video on the Virus B! Looking forward to learn some tricks from you!

[@TheCALMInstitute]

I bought a Virus Classic several years ago and it has been a real delight to use. Consistently sounds AWESOME in a mix, it sounded futuristic then, it sound’s futuristic now.

[@MattDiamondMDE]

This is so sick, I remember so many people talking about this synth back in the day. I'd never thought of looking for an emulator.. but here we are. Dream synth.. epic !

[@DJ_PHIISIX]

I had the Virus C back in the mis 2000s. One of my biggest regrets selling that. This this came along. Loaded up in cubase 12 and omg, the emulation is tight. Warm warm sounds just like the origional. I was a kid in a sweet shop all night going through the B and C roms. Thanks Brother for bringing this to me again!

[@dalienie]

Hey man, this session is just so usefull as I have a classic virus wich is based mainly on the B one! Thanks a lot and bug up to you ;)

[@ASH-ou4cg]

Very cool. I had the Virus B back in 2000 and got the Virus Ti about 10 years ago. Definitely a legendary synth and I believe Andy C and Dillinja also used this!

[@m00ftak]

Great video! I got a TI not too long ago and love it. Also, multimode is really cool for creating complex layered sounds. Works great for pads and basses especially. For instance, you can have one sound focusing on the lower sub freqs and one sound for your textural/melodic higher freqs.

[@formantix]

If you run the synth in multi, it will not sound as good opposed to running it in single mode. For studio purposes i always prefered that, but for live sets you dont have to be critical about the fidelity and you have 16 machines in one which imo is quite rich for a single 3u unit with 6 outputs.

[@camfloyd412]

@@formantix Interesting. Do you mean that the more voices you add the lower the audio resolution gets? I've only ever done 2-3 voices max and haven't noticed a difference but I'm not a pure audiophile so I've never checked it in a scientific way

[@formantix]

@@camfloyd412 If you run in single mode, the dsp gives full juice to whatever midichannel is assigned, but when its running multitimbrale you have 16 presets (freely assignable midichannels)over the 16 parts and it will cut down fidelity on the fx section. The polyphony is 24 voices which is still enough for lot of different simultanious sounds if you exclude rhytmic/percussive sounds. Its a common thing with a lot of synths from that time, you want single cq performance mode, you get the best quality out of whatever machine you're using. I used to run a live set through a mixwizard which has plenty aux's and outboard fx so i just killed the reverb on the virus to give the dsp some overhead (mostly did use the virus delay). Basically i could use the virus for 2 bass sounds / 2 sequences / 2 pads and toggle between 2 channels moving from one song to the next while playing 6 faders/eq/auxs .

[@NoyaD9]

​@@formantix never thought about that! Thanks for pointing it out

[@djGreenALERT]

This thing sounds SO good. I have been struggling recently to get that perfect Hoover sound used on The Prodigy's 'Charly' I think this could work. Thank you very much for uploading this..

[@jeremybiggs8413]

Resample a Roland Alpha-Juno 2 on the WTF preset patch. Job’s a good ‘un.

[@djGreenALERT]

@@jeremybiggs8413 Cheers buddy, I will give that a go

[@beybabyblade]

wayaa new video thx for it

[@dzaxys4643]

Thanks bro this is now probably the best vst on my laptop by quite a bit

[@user.08994]

Thank you so much for this video

[@therealbasstard]

the best Osirus explanation out there, thanks m8!

[@feralfoods]

thank you for this in-depth tutorial, and thank you for 'taking it to the limit' around 0:55:00, what a great way to modify the sound, totally sick!

[@jeanlove8510]

nice layout stranjah

[@MattRid]

This is unbelievable. Access Virus, a Digital emulation of Analog circuits. I love the fact that the DSP Chip has been now emulated and the actual Access Virus (A, B and C!!) program ROM is loaded up. The Virus' sounds are amazing it really draws me in, very useable rich and fat. I feel like this is a great opportunity to get deeper into synthesis with this awesome instrument. Big up Stranjah dope tutorial man. This is a wonderful gift i'm very grateful for this. Big Love mate awesome channel, this video is such an enjoyable and fun learning experience.

[@STRANJAH]

Glad you are having fun with the Virus, what a synth!!

[@formantix]

You know whats really good about it aside from the sound, the fact that it has knobs plenty.. if anything, you learn even more from actually sensing what your fingers are doing. In addition, rob papen's old ass Albino 3 plugin was already a very good virus clone.

[@MattRid]

@@formantix Yes!! so many glorious knobs! I'm reading the user manual. Gonna midi map the Plugin to LaunchControl XL. I Love Rob Papen's Synths. Seriously want to get Predator 3. will check out Albino 3. I think Papen also designed some of the original Virus patches.

[@formantix]

@@MattRid Yes! Rob papen made the some of the factory patches for the virus B, thats how you can tell how close Albino can match the Virus B. Rob papen is gold. What i also like are the options for how knobs behave if youre doing livesets for example, you can set it so the knobs will catch the position while you tweak which makes it even more intuitive to use. Also, if you have omnisphere, the virus can be set as a dedicated controller! KNOBS !!!

[@STRANJAH]

@@formantix Didn't know that about Rob, cool.

[@apoplexiamusic]

Thank you for sharing this! Over the years I’ve often wondered why no one tried making a Virus plugin. I was gutted that i had to sell my Virus Classic a few years ago, because i loved its sound! Having it in plugin form is even more convenient!

[@STRANJAH]

Yes it's like a flashback to the good ol days!

[@realtonaldrum]

A guy named Adam Szabo did one.

[@apoplexiamusic]

I installed it on my Mac last night and unfortunately it does not work on my system.

[@STRANJAH]

What model and OS?

[@apoplexiamusic]

@@STRANJAH I have an M1 Mac Mini with the Ventura OS

[@ozricbish]

Still got my Virus B...brilliant synth and the patches are SO malleable....

[@andrewmckay8972]

Great video! Looking sharp bro, that Mexican sun sure does us good huh 😊👌

[@STRANJAH]

Yes it does! 😆😆😆

[@KelmoMusic]

Hell yeah, this is awesome, I had no idea. I feel like the area of my music that has been lacking lately is my basses. VERY excited to check this out.

[@KelmoMusic]

Also, check out SynthsWhen if you're looking to get the virus fixed :) They used to help out a ton of our customers when I worked at Moog Audio.

[@robbetts]

"Give it up for the Ed Roosh and Opticooo"

[@noisyshaun]

Still my D&B favourites of all time

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

Thinking of Virus takes me back dude.

[@Ninzumecha]

Oooooh got really close near the end! 😉👍🤯

[@norko7422]

In the basement i found my old virus c and wanted to sell him on ebay. After this clip i changed my mind

[@PlayGameToday]

Virus C is better than Virus B and more much better than trashy DSP56300 emu

[@supahfly_uk]

This is awesome thanks.

[@resofactor]

I've been messing around with the DSP56300 project for a few months now. OMG dude! My Ableton Theme is almost the EXACT same color as yours! xD

[@DSilkSmooth]

Still have my Virus B. Wonderful Synth.

[@hntrnet]

Got the ti2, still use it almost daily. Take your virus into synths when, I’d pay for your patches from the 90s. 🤩

[@elissitdesign]

I have the TI2 desktop. Had it for years. Question: Do you find the VST plugin causes one of the DSPs to crash. I found the app unusable. I now run a 3rd party plug-in or for super stable setup I just build my patches DAWless. I love the hardware it’s a shame the synth was never truly finished.

[@datapusher-]

Its cool this has been made into a vst. Back in the days you mention, you could buy 2 or 3 badass analog vintage synths for what a new virus cost. Which is why I never got one. 🐸🐸🤙🤙

[@DaftFader]

Yeah they started to get up close to the price of a TR-303 back then! Probably not now though as the 303 never stopped going up until the last time I checked about 8 years ago xD

[@summerlaverdure]

thank you so much for this!!!

[@sapiotone]

A few DSP56300 videos have popped up in my recommendations in the past month or so, but this is the first I've watched. As a Virus B owner, I had to :) If I get this right, this would feasibly enable me to setup my old Lenovo ThinkPad running Win10 on an SSD and Live 10 to become the Virus C that I always wanted? And with a bit of effort with Remotify CSS, my hardware Virus should be able to fully control the soft synth 🤔 Saving this one for referring back. Thanks for sharing!!!☣👾

[@STRANJAH]

That would be a nice setup!

[@martinfox100]

DnB forever!

[@RTH1122]

Yeah, this is good alright! Mad fun!

[@MrYazbo]

The emulator is amazing and loads full retail Virus B/C/TI soundbanks in mid format. Early versions were a bit of a CPU hog but its a fantastic piece of coding.

[@yahjason]

I really appreciate you taking the time to show us this.

[@DaftFader]

This record had to of been the most satisfying baseline AND the second most satisfying baseline ever made in drum and bass (probably to this day) on either side of the same record! It makes me want to dig it out of my box! My friend used to own it but I think someone stole it off him (I am holding the rest of his collection long term as he didn't have space for them with his housing situation and I offered to hold onto/borrow them for a while), luckily I bought a big collection some years later that included a mint version of it though (his old copy was probably semi destroyed from scratching with it back in the day anyway, as he loved and probably wore huge recesses into the grooves the amount he would scratch with it xD).

[@RaveyStabs]

One of my favs. I compared the emulator plugin and hardware extensively, and to my ears, identical, to the point I would sell the hardware (nostalgia is keeping it here lol). The plugin really opens up the interface because there is menu diving on the hardware, especially the 3rd osc that came later in the firmware and wasn’t originally planned that you access via a menu.

[@ivanestades5903]

Bought a launch control xl and been using this plugin extensively and was even pondering a harware virus but I just keep seeing people say that this is IDENTICAL and it's kind of hard to accept but yeah, and it seems to be even better, I can tweak both filters at the same time for example

[@RaveyStabs]

@@ivanestades5903 totally identical, only thing you might get from hardware is added hiss from the outputs! You could go for a TI (later model), they've actually reverse engineered it too apparently but won't release it because it is still tin production. Virus B/C are beasts and to have them in software with total recall is SO good. Loads of banks to download for them too and the plugin makes that easy.

[@adamsmith7058]

Used to love this back in the day. Virus B, Waldorf Pulse, Waldorf Q, Korg Karma, Emu Morpheus. and Jv1080, got consistent use and still influence what I expect to hear in a synth to this day. For those interested, Waldorf Q is now available as an emu from the same team. Another classic deserving to be heard and used by a new generation of young heads. All they need to do now is release Korg Z1, Karma, Yamaha VL1, FS1R abd Roland Vsynth as VSTs and I'll be extraordinarily happy.

[@oraz.]

Holy shit thank for putting me onto this

[@sla5303]

I owned a Virus Classic (essentially a Red B) that used to belong to William Orbit - had some amazing patches on it and I immensely regret selling it.

[@apoplexiamusic]

That synth was really something! I want to give this plugin a try and see if i can recreate my Virus patches with it

[@MattRid]

Dude I had the Red Classic B also! I still get emotional just thinking about it. What a beautiful piece of kit. I feel your pain man I really regret having to part with it. This DSP emulator is a free dream come true!

[@STRANJAH]

@@apoplexiamusic I gotta get my Virus B fixed, and then export the patches I had. I had some REALLY good presets

[@apoplexiamusic]

@@STRANJAH the one I had was Drumcatcher’s Virus Classic. He had some good presets in there and i made some pretty sick ones too. I never managed to get hardware to really gel with my workflow though

[@therealone1288]

Shoulda dumped the patches first

[@PromoMIAR]

Thanks

[@signalfreud]

Yo I can't believe someone name dropped Jason Allen, I learned Ableton 9 from his Udemy class years ago when I knew nothing. He kills it.

[@STRANJAH]

He’s great!!

[@Luke-1984]

Sick

[@djkurtstudio]

Technically the only difference in sound is when the audio outs on the actual unit is used. My good friend is friends with the guy who coded this (he actually convinced him to do it) it emulates the 'Motorola' chip in the hardware units and it's done accurately. I own both (Virus TI) and have compared some of the older pre-sets made on the older machines. The software version is a bit brighter (more digital sounding) but I think that's to do with the physical outputs on the machine, shaving a bit of that off. If you plug the outputs from the SPDIF and transfer the audio digitally. It's virtually identical and has that 'Virus' sound to it that I've not heard from any softsynth yet. There are some some good ones out there but they all have the same sort of sound to them. It must be something to do with the way it's been programmed to use the chip for processing but it deffo does have a better sound that most vst synths, even now!

[@STRANJAH]

That’s great to know. I was thinking about adding the Akai RX950 AD/DA emulator VST at the end of the chain to make it sound analogue. I wonder if that will do the trick.

[@djkurtstudio]

@@STRANJAH I actually prefer the brighter sound from this and also through the SPDIF on the TI, it works better for what I make but I suppose that depends on what you're making. When I say brighter, it's not majorly drastic or anything, just has that crisp real top end. I do like that RX950 emulator, I've used it quite a bit in the past. Tal DAC has one as well with an Akai S1000 setting (I think it is) which sounds pretty awesome. Unfiltered Audio LO-FI-AF is the best plugin I've found so far for that kind of old sampler grit. I only found out I had it last night with my Plugin Alliance Subscription, it's pretty awesome!

[@STRANJAH]

@@djkurtstudio Good to know as I have Plugin Alliance. I'll try it out.

[@50_Pence]

Slamin, skelter and warning massive. 96-00 saw some great d&b

[@LxcheeMusic]

ive been wanting to get into techstep and stuff

[@gilbertopenatoca1525]

Still got my Virus b around. A powerful feature was the 99 "hidden" preset waves to simulate the wavetable thing with a squarewave lfo assigned to the wave number, or just to start from scratch with a more sofisticated wave.

[@pocketrealitty]

That’s a cool skin! Where did you get the VST skin you’re using? I only have the default Osirus skin and wouldn’t mind changing it up!

[@STRANJAH]

Right click to change skin to trance

[@888Winkler]

I got it today. Freaking aesome. By the ay hat is the theme your using on Ableton?

[@ASH-ou4cg]

Would love to see this compared to the hardware Virus, especially with identical patches. Do you still have your hardware Virus that you can compare with this?

[@Elektragen]

The virus B totally rocks I'll never het rid of my classic

[@entitee]

Back in the day the Virus + Emu E6400 combo was number one on the wish list.

[@canecreek00]

I bought a virus C back in the day and still own it, I guess the code has been around along time as the TC powercore virus was very accurate emulation back in circa 2004, shame it was full of bugs and support was given up long before they had it running tight.

[@VegasReyesOG]

Brings me back to the Reason 2.0 days

[@DaftFader]

Oh snap, this just reminded me of the first time I tried reason and had it set up to run as a aux track in cubase (my usual DAW) just to use the synth from it cos it was so dope xD.

[@alihibbs4002]

Has anyone got a link to a working ROM for Mac? Mine says that the file is corrupted, tried to have it repaired with no luck. Thanks

[@sunnyello8325]

so sick do you no how to load up saved sounds

[@jordanrattanavong2655]

Amazing plugin. I can’t figure out how to save internal presets though. I click the save buttons and choose save location but nothing appears when I look to load it again.

[@Sunstatemusic]

I have a hardware Virus TI2, but use it only for final sounding before mixing project, in midi-project i use DSP56300Emu (Osirus its name at the moment), it is great without sync loss issues as hardware has

[@danosdotnl]

virus recordings

[@lionking8180]

Hey, How did you get that Virus C skin for this? as i just have the standard Osrius type you see in most videos on youtube.

[@STRANJAH]

You can click on the menu or right click and then you can change Skins. Choose trance one I thjnk

[@Flux_One]

A lot of techno, hard house and trance producers used the Virus too 👍

[@jumpupcave]

😤😤

[@2xenn]

hey stranjah i want to get into making dnb/jungle/breakcore type music and wanted to ask you if the ableton live 11 intro version is enough to get into that?

[@STRANJAH]

Intro is good to start with however soon you will want the other effects that a higher version has.

[@2xenn]

@@STRANJAH okay thank you for replying :)

[@michaelpihkal]

Hey STRANJAH! What is the problem with your VIRUS B? I had one that was stolen and when I got it back it had no power, it was totally dead. I eventually opened it up and found a blown resister that was off the circuit board that was near the power jack. I found a close equivalent resister and soldered in. Powered it up and got lit up with the beautiful green lcd and breathing LEDs...Great feeling for sure.

[@mineraljunction]

latest version of the vst seems to have a completely different interface which makes following this a little bit difficult

[@mineraljunction]

@@obd my g

[@gtabro1337]

@@obd You da man

[@devondetroit2529]

They emulated the rom for Waldorf MicroQ also

[@ourmindzdj]

I had no idea the Virus B was used in Jungle! It's such a bargain outboard synth and as time goes on, I've learned I prefer digital synths to analogue funnily enough. The classic Roland Juno's etc are so one dimensional and require a ton of processing ITB to make interesting in today's world of music production. All my favourite sounding synths are digital. Have you tried making a Reese bass on it? I'd love to know what the infamous jungle reese bass tracks like Renegade - Terrorist were made on. I've sampled a FLAC version of that track for it's reese bass but still would love to hear how sick a Reese sounds on my Virus B.

[@DumboSanchez]

Bro what

[@ourmindzdj]

@@DumboSanchez what part didn’t you understand?

[@taaviv4185]

I love both analog and digital and Virus is very nice sounding virtual analog with great features, but no question proper analog sounds better without proccesing. You can make a reese with about any synth that has 2 oscillators that can be detuned. Virus reese will sound good and also very similar to other synths.

[@naturesdopeflow]

Terrorist Reese is sampled from Kevin Saunderson track Reese - Just another chance

[@WatchMyShorts303]

Any chance to get a virus b vst ? Cant find it in the web

[@ineedstuff8286]

you said Alien Girl... that was def a track by EdRush and Optical. That was one of my first 5 DNB vinyls.

[@jk-xe5em]

A music associate of mine used the hardware Virus B ( then the snow desktop ) for Trap and west coast 90s type music back in 2010 and was hella expensive 😅😅😅😅 Soundclick sales paid for it all

[@KRISPEdnb]

I thought I read in an interview that Alien Girl was made on a Novation Bass Station.

[@STRANJAH]

Could very well be

[@GeorgeLocke]

Will you review the new OsTirus Virus TI emulator?

[@yotta1400]

Dónde descargo los presets, me pueden ayudar con el link? 🙏

[@chasedestroy]

The last 2 patches in Bank A should be init patches if its got the factory presets included.

[@tomashcroft7024]

Unfortunatley it's not as easy as described. Can't find the Rom that works? Anyone for mac?

[@Username-tw2li]

Definitely a beast of a synth.... Too bad my CPU doesn't support it unfortunately :( any plugin suggestions that also emulates Virus?

[@ivanestades5903]

viper is more cpu friendly surely and it also sounds good

[@DaftFader]

Ed rush and Optical named their record label after this "Virus Recordings" :P

[@Lucait]

never been able to “find it” 😂

[@gtubgle]

I used this for a while, it pushed me to get a hardware TI, there's just a lot to do with it and wanted the knobs.

[@ianedmonds9191]

Isn't keyfollow to allow the filters to react to the frequency of the note played?

[@fahadha]

I've got this to open in Ableton and it looks like the have the same ROM file as yours (going by the file name) but when I go to the patch library it's empty. Have tried different banks but there are no files. It's looking in the same folder that I put the VST and ROM in. Any ideas? I guess I'm missing the .mid file?

[@STRANJAH]

You don't see this when selecting banks? snipboard.io/VenhX8.jpg

[@fahadha]

@@STRANJAH hey thank you, I got it working!

[@tiborvegh700]

Mate, everyone used this synth in the 90's, not just DNB folks.

[@illistraitordnb3155]

you can use this same emulator to host nord lead, and other virus like the TI some walforf too!

[@tonyk.8580]

So are there actual alien girl presets to download or just the forum guide on how to set up the various synth settings?

[@tonyk.8580]

great video btw was able to setup up easily thanks to this much love.

[@STRANJAH]

Just the settings

[@STRANJAH]

awesome!

[@arnaudbentoo4105]

CTRL + Left clik for more precisions value

[@floatingdoor]

Is anyone else having an issue with Ableton crashing when you try to open the VST? I'm using the VST3 version on Windows.

[@STRANJAH]

Not me, hmmm...

[@floatingdoor]

@@STRANJAH All good, I'll have to investigate further. btw thanks for your uploads man. You are one of my favorite producers that shares knowledge on KZbin. Take care brother.

[@matski7690]

@@floatingdoor Might be the wrong rom?

[@floatingdoor]

@@matski7690 Might be, it is most likely user error on my part.

[@gtabro1337]

@@floatingdoor I only had Ableton crashing before I read the instructions... Was missing the whole .bin file.

[@Turbo_TechnoLogic]

How do you compare the sound of this to the Virus TI2?

[@MrMallum]

Ed Rush and Optical used an OSCar. Maybe the Virus B aswell but mainly the OSCar

[@foodstampz]

What's that a vst ?

[@MattRid]

@@foodstampz It's a Dope ass British synth from the early 80's made by the Oxford Synth Company. Ed Rush and Optical def used it. Gforce software do a clone VST I believe.

[@formantix]

oscar and a pro one

[@kcat80]

yep but at the time of the virus no one was making affordable analog synths. va was the best we had back then. behringer have reissued a clone of the pro one, they also teased an oscar clone I think years back, can't remember if that actually had any update news though.

[@kevinmckernan2753]

Pro one was rinsed

[@moexn]

Hmm I dont know any source that Ed Rush and Optical used this one. I know that Optical was or still is obsessed with the pro one!

[@iamgeorgesears]

Osirus is 1:1 chip emulation, not the synth engine emulation. You have to load the synth into the emulation for it to work. It sounds 1:1 with the hardware unit, except it has bugs and can crash sometimes.

[@yeahthatkornel]

The 3rd osc was added via firmware update.

[@marcoose777]

1:12:25 -- You have a square sub osc... the triangle one is lot cleaner with fewer harmonics

[@alce58ka]

were you able to extract the presets yet?

[@STRANJAH]

No but I’m getting my virus repaired so eventually it’ll happen

[@Azzalto40]

this Virus C

[@michaellenoir9933]

Ive completed the whole process but can only access one sound

[@STRANJAH]

Did you open up and change the bank?

[@0e0]

I remember how hard you had to work to get that damn Virus B ha

[@STRANJAH]

Soooooo hard lol starved myself on $11/hour

[@0e0]

you should've brought it to my place when you stayed here..I would've fixed it for you.@@STRANJAH I'm getting a Nord Lead this week. I always wanted one when I worked at Long and McQuade and definitely couldn't afford one (making significantly less than $11 an hour)

[@Goat.Herder]

I have a Virus C (no longer working) and i must say that Dune 3 is in my opinion, a software equivalent (not clone). Look it up if you cant get the hardware, its massive.

[@OpForMusic]

Long live the Virus. I've bought and sold my TI2 _three times_ because nothing is nearly as fun to play with as it is.

[@SynderNOfficial]

Love my TI too just wish they could so some small updates like faster LFOs and stuff like that. The DSP is entirely capable of it anyhow.

[@OpForMusic]

@@SynderNOfficial I wish too, but I don't think we're ever getting a Virus TI3, let alone any more firmware updates for existing models. The brains behind the operation moved on to that wildly successful Kemper Profiling Amp and never looked back.