Access Virus Vst Plugin
VST plugins are an excellent addition to your DAW setup, easy to install and simple to use. They recreate the legendary sounds of the classic synthesizers at a fraction of the price. A VST emulator is perfect if you don’t have the budget to throw at vintage and rare synth hardware.
Many of the top synth companies have recreated their successful products into VST plugins, and there are many other specialist plugin companies who have created their own plugin versions as well.
Free Access Virus B Synthesizer VST EmulationAtolla by TorQue Audio (TBA) V. 0.17Bthis vst synth was available to download for a wile it was still in BETA bu. “Viper blew my mind instantly with its sound and possibilites. As an oldschool Access Virus fan and user, I was shocked about how can this plugin sound exactly the same as the fancy hardwares. It’s definitely one of my goto synths, and my secret weapon! Highly recommended!” Sunny Lax - DJ / Producer.
Remember, that you may need a bridge (we recommend jBridge) to allow 32-bit plugins to work with 64-bit DAWs, this will enable you to play these older VSTs on your modern DAW software.
There are hundreds of quality VSTs to choose from, ranging from a few hundred dollars to free downloads, so we’ve put together a list of some classic and vintage synths that have been recreated as VST plugins.
If you’re not sure if one of the paid VSTs is right for you, all of the VSTs offer free trials to test them out!
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Roland Jupiter-8
The Jupiter-8 announced Roland as a top synth manufacturer in the 1980s, the colorful interface and textured sounds powered by the innovative ACB (Analog Circuit Behavior) Modeling made it an instant hit across the globe, so the VST plugin was always going to be a popular option.
Roland Cloud Jupiter-8 (Paid)
Roland recreated a version of their legendary synth and this is the go-to option if you want as close to the real thing as possible, those smooth pads, trembling basslines, and inspiring leads are just a download away and all for a fraction of the price of the real thing.
Arturia Jup-8 V (Paid)
Arturia has also created their own offering, the Jup-8 V, including a fully-loaded step sequencer and patch effects for more sound options.
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Access Virus
Recreating the Access Virus is a big ask for anyone, the legendary synth has come a long way since its release in 1997, shaping the sound of electronic music along the way with its powerful sound and flexibility, it’s safe to say that a Virus VST would be welcome by most synth players.
Adam Szabo Viper (Paid)
Adam Szabo has managed to recreate a lot of the Virus sound in his Viper VST, you’ve got multiple types of oscillators with various waveforms, modulation capabilities, plenty of effects, and a lot more. It all adds up to a worthy mention of a great VST that recreates the mighty Virus!
Adam Szabo Phazor (Free)
A bonus free VST is also available from Adam Szabo, the Phazor, recreating the famous Virus phaser effect. A great addition to your setup that has been carefully designed and optimized to keep the CPU usage as low as possible, allowing you to use it multiple times within a project.
Sequential Circuits Prophet V
The Prophet 5 sits firmly in the synthesizer hall of fame, a programmable polysynth released in the 1970s that helped Dave Smith’s Sequential Circuits company rise to the top. Famed for its good looks and dual analog/digital setup, the Prophet V was a revolution in synth design.
Arturia Prophet V (Paid)
The Prophet V has been beautifully recreated by Arturia, a VST plugin that successfully brings back those big analog sounds which made this synth so famous. As a welcome extra, Arturia has combined this with Sequential’s other big name synth, the digital Prophet VS.
EFM ScP5 (Free)
A VST plugin that combines both analog and digital synthesis giving you two world-famous synths in one package, offering up a huge sound palette to experiment with. A free 32-bit version is available at VST4free, the sound recreation is close but not quite at Arturia’s level.
Roland TR-909
The Roland TR-909 was released after the worldwide success of the TR-808, using a hybrid design of analog circuitry and digital sampling, the resulting rhythmic patterns and deep bass sound quickly inspired musical genres such as house, techno, and hip-hop.
Roland Cloud TR-909 (Paid)
Roland has recreated their famous 909 as a VST plugin and they left no stone unturned. All of the original details have been included with plenty of extras like the improved sequencer programming section. It’s an authentic plugin that emulates the character of the 909 very well.
D16 Drumazon (Paid)
The Drumazon VST plugin from the D16 company emulates all of the 909’s synthesis design, built with extra functionality that allows you to adjust the sound even further.
MaxSynths DR-910 (Free)
A free 32-bit version is also available from Max Synths from VST4Free, but the sequencer is missing from the overall design.
Roland JP-8000
The JP-8000 from Roland was released in 1997 and used innovative design to replicate the vintage analog sound with digital technology flexibility. It also included some welcome extras such as motion control, sequencing and the famous SuperSaw and Feedback oscillator types.
Adam Szabo JP6K (Paid)
You can also find some well made emulations of some of the JP-8000 features on the internet. The JP6K from Adam Szabo is a plugin has been carefully designed to recreate that highly sought after Supersaw effect that was fundamental to the foundation of Trance music.
CFA-Sound SUPER-7 (Free)
A free 32-bit version that recreates the SuperSaw oscillator of the JP-8000 is also available at vst4free, as it’s a free download you shouldn’t expect as many features as the JP6K paid plugin but it’s a great option if you just want to experiment with some of the JP-8000 sounds.
ARP Odyssey
Originally released in 1972, the Odyssey picked up a large following for its unique character and aggressive sound. The duophonic analog synth was then reissued by Korg in 2015 with the help of David Friend, the co-founder of Arp, bringing back to life the power of the Odyssey.
KORG Collection ARP Odyssey (Paid)
Korg also released the VST plugin version which recreates that Odyssey character and sound engine beautifully, putting all of that raw power straight into your DAW setup. A nice little bonus is that you can switch between the three different color designs of the past.
Elektrostudio ODsay (Free)
The free version from Elektrostudio is also worth a look at, this VST plugin emulates the original Odyssey and it does sound pure vintage! The plugin is only 32-bit so you will need jBridge or something similar to convert it into any modern, 64-bit, music production software.
ARP 2600
The ARP 2600 is considered to be one of the greatest analog synthesizers ever made, used by many artists over many different genres, the semi-modular synth went head to head with the legendary Moog throughout the 1970s, answering the call for a compact and intuitive synth. https://entrancementconcepts230.weebly.com/blog/law-for-business-textbook-free-download-torrent.
Way Out Ware TIMEWARP 2600 (Paid)
Another ARP 2600 plugin is available from Way Out Ware, this version has extra flexibility with the aid of modern technology and has been specially endorsed by the original inventor of the 2600, so you know it’s going to be good!
Arturia ARP2600 V (Paid)
Arturia has produced an ARP 2600 VST plugin and it certainly hits the nail on the head for the sound quality, the impressive flexibility with the many features, and the modular routing options, plus, the plugin is loaded with presets to give you a running start when you first switch on.
Glen Stegner Arppe2600va (Free)
Plus, for those looking for a free version, be sure to look out for Glen Stegner’s offering which has been defined into a great sounding ARP 2600 plugin.
Roland Juno-106
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The Juno-106 is a hugely popular vintage synth from Roland, EDM DJ’s and electronic-based musicians jumped onto this instrument due to the simple and intuitive interface and big analog sound. It was also one of the first synths to introduce MIDI instrument connectivity.
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Roland Cloud Juno-106 (Paid)
Roland has recreated this legendary synth into a popular VST plugin, keeping to the iconic sound and its legacy of simple programming. The full specification of the synth has been kept and using this plugin is a perfect way to get your hands on this classic piece of synth hardware.
Synthescience Poly 2106 (Free)
A free 32-bit version is also available from Synthescience the Poly 2106 plugin is an excellent emulation of the classic Juno-106. It’s a must-have for any Roland fans out there!
Roland SH-101
The SH-101 from Roland is a monophonic synthesizer that was originally released in the early 1980s. The simple design structure made it stand out from the other synths, the tone from the one oscillator, filter, amp, and LFO design became famous with the Techno and D&B crowd.
Roland SH-101 (Paid)
Roland has an SH-101 VST plugin available and has managed to create a full reproduction of their classic synth product, no expense or detail spared with this one, the recreation of the sounds and circuitry behavior makes you feel as though you’re using the real thing.
D16 LUSH-101 (Paid)
The D16 group also has an SH-101 VST plugin available with a powerful sound design at its core and a modular, logical interface layout.
Togu Audio Line TAL-BassLine-101 (Paid)
Togu Audio Line also managed to put out an authentic sounding SH-101 plugin. TAL also included some additional features on the appegiator/sequencer to improve the usability.
Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 initially failed as a bass synth, but the second-hand units came into the hands of EDM producers and gave life to the techno and acid house genres. The TB-303 squelchy bass sound soon became famous and inspired many copies of this newly loved synth!
D16 Phoscyon (Paid)
Be sure to check out the VST plugin offering from D16, they make high-quality recreations of famous synths and this is no exception. The classic 303 sound is expertly emulated and it comes with many features such as distortion, arpeggiator, and randomizer.
antto Venom VB-303 (Free)
A free, 32-bit, plugin by the name of Venom VB-303 is available at vst4free. A great option for those looking to get their hands on the 303 sound in a DAW setup. The interface has proven to be a little complicated for some, but as a free option, we think it’s worth a try.
The Oscillator screen of the Virus Indigo TDM plug-in — a familiar sight to anyone acquainted with the old Virus TDM, or indeed the hardware synth.
Just as Access's hardware Virus synth was followed by the snazzy Virus Indigo, so the TDM plug-in version for Pro Tools has benefited from an upgrade to Indigo status, making it more infectious than ever..
There are plenty of modern digital synths around that are claimed to provide authentic analogue sounds, and there's plenty of debate over whether any of them actually succeed. The Access Virus was among the first 'virtual analogues', and has gone through a number of incarnations over the years. Originally a desktop module, it's since sprouted keyboards of varying dimensions, been shoehorned into a 1U rack, and painted any number of different colours. It's also been stuffed onto a CD-ROM and sold as a TDM plug-in for Mac and PC Pro Tools systems. And for all the arguments about whether the Virus really captures the analogue 'sound', there can be no question about the authenticity of its recreation in software. Digidesign's TDM cards use the same Motorola DSP chips as the hardware Virus, and the code behind the sound engine that runs on them is the same in each case. Indeed, if you happen to own a hardware Virus as well, you can transfer patches between the two, and use the knobs on the hardware version to manipulate the plug-in's controls.
If you want to know what the Virus sounds like, or learn about its synth spec, I suggest consulting previous SOS reviews of the hardware units (for example, the review of the latest hardware Virus, the Virus C, in SOS August 2002, and the latest review of the Virus Indigo, in SOS October 2002). The various upgrades that the hardware Viruses have received over the years have been more than cosmetic: new features and effects have been added in software updates — v6.0 of the Virus OS has been available since May — while the internal synth hardware is now on revision C. Until now, however, the TDM version has missed out on these improvements. The new Virus Indigo plug-in brings the software incarnation up to date with the latest hardware Viruses, and boasts more than 30 new functions and synthesis parameters compared to the original, along with a redesigned interface and support for Digidesign's new HD hardware, on which it will now work at sample rates up to 96kHz. Users of the software version are, however, still second-class citizens in the manual department, getting their documentation only in PDF format.
Voice Management
One aspect of the Virus plug-in that can be confusing at first is the design's way of maximising DSP resources. Once you've installed Virus Indigo, it appears within Pro Tools as eight separate plug-ins numbered Indigo 1 to Indigo 8, each available in mono, mono-to-stereo, multi-mono and stereo versions. Instances with the same number share a Mix or HD DSP chip, and appear in the MIDI Device/Channel Selector as Indigo 1a, Indigo 1b and so on. A Mix or HD DSP chip can host up to eight instances with the same number, each playing back a different patch, so you could theoretically create a 64-part multitimbral synth if you had eight DSP chips to play with. Maximum total polyphony from one DSP is 16 on a Mix system or 20 on an HD card. Heavy use of Virus Indigo's effects can bring down polyphony, but to my mind, built-in effects are much less useful anyway on a software synth than they are on a hardware device.
The system takes a little bit of getting used to, but works very well in practice, and gives you a flexible way of managing your DSP resources. You could, for instance, use one DSP chip to play back eight different monophonic parts such as snares and basses, and another for a single 16-voice organ or piano patch. Virus Indigo is certainly more DSP-efficient than its only major rival on the TDM platform, McDSP's Synthesizer One, which can deliver seven voices from a Mix card DSP and eight from an HD one.
Point Of Infection
The first difference you're likely to notice between the old and new Virus plug-ins concerns the copy protection. The original used the then-standard floppy key, whereas Virus Indigo comes with a licence card for authorising an iLok dongle. If you had the original Virus plug-in installed on your system, Virus Indigo overwrites it, so you might as well uninstall the original and save your authorisation, in case you want to install it on another system. Having discovered this, I was a little nervous about what would happen when I loaded in a Pro Tools session that had used the old Virus plug-in — especially as I often don't bother to save its settings as a Virus patch, finding it simpler just to save the entire Pro Tools Session. I needn't have worried. The Session loaded without any problems, and with Virus Indigo automatically loaded in the inserts where the old version had been. When I pressed Play, everything sounded exactly as it had done before. Top marks (although a Readme file supplied with Virus Indigo warns that this may not work properly on the PC).
Easy Like Virus Indigo
Opening the plug-in's editing window highlights another change: the new Easy Page. Since the Virus has far more parameters than can comfortably be accommodated in a plug-in window at once, they've always been divided into six thematically arranged pages: Osc, Filter/Env, LFO, EFX, Misc and ModMatrix. The point of the Easy Page is to provide instant access to 10 of the most important parameters from across the range, so that you can do 'quick-and-dirty' edits without having to jump around the pages looking for the right parameter. Some of the Easy Page controls actually manipulate several parameters elsewhere; for instance, the Easy Page Filter Cutoff knob adjusts the cutoff frequency of both of Virus Indigo's filters together. New parameters have been added to most of the individual editing pages, and the Misc page is now known as FX2/Global.
The new Easy Screen provides a quick way of getting to some of the main sound-generating parameters.The Easy Page is a nice addition, but for anyone familiar with the basics of subtractive synthesis, the detailed editing pages shouldn't be too daunting. The interface is actually superior to that of the hardware synth in one respect, because there are no shifted functions — every parameter has its own dedicated control. However, Access haven't done too much to exploit the additional potential for visual feedback offered by a full-sized computer screen. For instance, the Wave Select and Shape controls for each oscillator allow you to choose a waveform from a preset list of 64, and then shape it to taste. This feature would be so much more intuitive if you could actually see a visual representation of the waveform change shape as you move the controls; in fact, you can only find out what wave shape any number corresponds to by looking it up in the PDF manual. Likewise, there's no graphic display of envelope shape, and I also think it's a shame that virtually all Virus Indigo's parameters are still calibrated arbitrarily from 0 to 127, or -64 to +63. How about giving us values in seconds, Hertz and other real-world units?
Minor gripes aside, however, Virus Indigo's interface is a model of clarity, and is easy to use. Like any good plug-in, moreover, it allows almost every parameter to be automated with a minimum of fuss. To my mind, this facility more than makes up for the lack of physical controllers to play with, and I often find myself drawing in automation curves for half-a-dozen Virus parameters or more. Setting Virus up as a vocoder, or using its filters to process another audio track in Pro Tools, is also trivially easy.
Spreading The Disease
The Virus Indigo plug-in is one of those products that does pretty much what it says on the tin. It is an Access Virus synth in software, and its integration into Pro Tools is exemplary, particularly with regard to its handling of DSP resources (see 'Voice Management' box below). In a 44.1kHz Session, Pro Tools reported Indigo as taking a mere 384 samples to do its thing. Add that to the laughably low latency of the Mix or HD hardware, and you get a number small enough for Virus Indigo to be indistinguishable from a hardware synth in terms of its responsiveness to keyboard input. It feels like the real thing and it sounds like the real thing.
Pro Tools TDM and HD users have always been able to call upon a wide range of high-quality plug-in effects that have not been available to users of native systems. When it comes to synths, however, the situation is reversed, and it would be easy for TDM users to become jealous of what's available on native platforms. For anyone in this position, I recommend a course of Virus Indigo.
Pros
- It doesn't just sound like a Virus. It is one.
- Makes efficient and flexible use of DSP resources.
- Seamlessly replaces old Virus TDM in Pro Tools Sessions.
Cons
- Some other software-synth interfaces provide better visual feedback by not sticking so closely to the hardware paradigm.
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Summary
The Access Virus is perhaps the most popular analogue-modelling synth around, and Virus Indigo TDM is a worthwhile update to the already excellent software implementation.
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