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Access virus emulation for deluge
wrmz
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Hi,
Deluge already got a great synth (dexed) but I was thinking if there is possibility to add access virus emulation (see https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/ or code https://github.com/dsp56300/gearmulator/) it will vastly enchance deluge potential.
Code is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 so its open source and imo can be ported (even in siplified version like preset player or smth)
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Hello!
I've had an old bargain Virus B for a couple of months now and it's a fantastic sounding synth (after a good clean and LED/switch replacement) but it might be a bit too complex for the Deluge's brain to handle. If possible it'd be great though, even if someone just made it boot into Virus mode with less multitimbrality but I'm no expert heh and it would be a mammoth task though.
Some features I love on the Virus so far which could be ported to the Deluge are the Sample & Glide, 'analogue' feel level, different saturation modes, feeding audio from one preset into another, and vocoder but I know I've only touched the surface of its sounds design capabilities and am very happy so far.
I use the Deluge to control the Virus with different sounds in multitimbral mode but it does reach its polyphonic limits pretty quickly if you use lots of unison, effects etc.
A quick check online says this:
The Synthstrom Deluge is powered by a Renesas RZ/A1L processor, which features an Arm Cortex-A9 core running at 400 MHz. It includes 3 MB of on-chip SRAM and is complemented by 64 MB of SDRAM
I couldn't find any info on the Virus CPU apart from it being a custom DSP chip so I'm none the wiser, but the emulator info might give some clues but personally I'm not holding my breath for this.
I've also just read some of the features of Deluge community fw 1.3 and I can honestly say it's like a tsunami of new stuff to learn as I struggle to remember the stuff I hardly use from the original firmwares heh, but I guess like EZBOT has said we don't need to try and learn the entire Deluge, just the bits we want to use. And if that included a Virus, then it'd be even more useful than it already is for sure.
Hi,
I did some small research and I found cpus:
Access Virus B with 24 voices polyfony— Motorola DSP56311 ( 150 MHz)
Access Virus C with max 32 voices polyphony - Motorola DSP56362 (100/120 MHz ) and I found a info that it was used in original Xbox for processing sound
those doesn't look powerfull nowadays but those two synths are still monsters
comparing to Deluge cpu it seems that it can handle (lets assume that overhaul for emulating virus cpu raises cpu usage 2x times), I guess that there is no need for all voices and those can be drastiically reduced to 4 or something.
Probably I am too optimistic but who knows
Hmmm, yes. Normally to emulate Mhz, you need Ghz to power it.