No issues here. Even in a live rig with OT switching to a new songs it changes all patches in an instance.
Haven’t tried how it would behave with 8 patches, but 2-3 change smooth and fast.
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Cannot confirm long patch change patches here. Channing the channel on the device as well as changing patches from the OT ist more or less instant on my TI2.
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The laggy interface was what made me sell my TI2. Good 2-3 seconds to swap between patches and channels.
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And I was thinking to sell my Ti1 and get a Ti2, as my Polar Ti2 I used to own didn t have lag…
I am talking Multi Banks change.
Multi Banks change I am talking about… there I have big lag, not patch change…
During a live set would be a killer!
I’ve given up trying to get a Virus to work in my setup. I’ve had 3 different ones (TI2, TI and B) and all of them had issues. I adore the sound but they’re not worth the hassle to me.
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Hi guys!
Have Peak or Iridium been able to replicate the sounds and flexibility of Virus grain oscillators?
Thanks!
today for the first time in years I again loaded Virus Control plugin so I could use automation in Ableton. Well I still get the situation where the I get no audio and have to start a fresh project but god the Virus is a beast automated in Ableton, even by todays standards
Has any modern synth replaced the virus yet in terms of being a powerful multitimbral synth?
Honestly no, at least not really. There are some wonderful VA synths out there with tasty oscillators and killler effects but as a do-it-all synth the Virus is largely untouched. I have a Virus B which I’ve been considering selling for ages but every time I go to list it on eBay I fire it up and spend ages making rich pads with it…
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Virus filter and fx are unique to the Virus. The only way to sound exactly like the Virus is with a Virus. Though the virus is a good chameleon, in that it can make a pretty good approximation of many other synths.
That’s not to say other synths can’t sound just as good in their own way. It used to be that other synths couldn’t match the Virus but there are a ton of great alternatives these days.
That said, my Virus isn’t going anywhere as long as it’s still breathing and growling.
Also would like to use this time to point out that TI integration is dead for OS X users from Catalina up. Luckily there are some great editors/librarians out there that are still alive and kicking.
I use the mystery-islands Virus HC one.
Just recently updated to a new version too.
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Which do u think would be the great alternatives to Virus Ti these days, in hardware form?
Virus TI2 
I have the feeling, that there are not that many multitimbral modern synths out there.
I have a lot of fun with the Micromonsta 2 lately, but its only bi-timbral. Works great with a sampler with good modulation and filters tho.
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What characteristics of the Virus are you looking for?
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Well the technology in Virus… voices, oscilattors, hypersaw, effects…
Maybe 16 Hydrasynth would get you close. They seem quite similar if you don’t count multitimbrality
Hi Virus TI folks,
I wanted to let you people know about the Access Virus TI editor running on the Electra One console.
You can find it here (search for “Access Virus TI”)
It works two way (back and forth and it has SysEx Dump parsing, which it can request), so you can get a nice overview of existing patches.
Cheers 
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I had the Hydrasynth, and as much as I liked a lot of the synth, it did sound very different from the Virus.
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