Access Virus TI Snow

Hi guys,

Have been lustfully looking at the Access Virus for a while now, but failed to notice the Snow until recently.

The main things it lacks from the full TI are the obvious nobs and faders and it is only 4 part as oppose to 16...

Has anyone had any experience with the unit? Is it a worthy substitute if the full version is financially impossible lol.

Thanks people.

i owned one for the last year. the sounds are great and it has a great integration with software. also it doesn't take a lot of space. the user interface is dense, though quite good. of course, the realtime access via knobs to almost every parameter of the big brother is extremely nice. the sound is the same. another big plus of the snow are the dac, they sound phat! the reason i sold it was the amount of sounds it has (i think it comes with 1000 patches). i'm more on the reductionist side and prefer less options. hope that helps.

Real helpful mate thank you.

How is editing on the unit itself. I understand it will be very menu driven, but is it infuriatingly one menu after another, or fairly intuitive?

Thanks again.

it's quite intuitive and fast, as far as i remember nothing was more than 4 clicks away..

And never felt like the 4 part left you wishing you had saved for the full desktop?

nah, the 4 parts never bothered me. more the faster access to all the parameters could have one wishing for the bigger version. though for me it was just overkill. 1000 something patches! i'm more into reduction..

why don't you try it out somewhere and see for yourself? the sounds are great!

Yup im sure i will, you've been real helpful.

One more thing, are all the patches on the virus website and those from the full version compatible with the Snow as well?

i think all the ti serias are patch-wise interchangeable..