Welcome - Access VIRUS|POWERCORE User's Reference Manual

Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the Access Virus PowerCore (VPC). You now have amongst
your sonic arsenal a truly amazing synthesizer, fully equipped to infect your music with
some serious attitude! Rest assured that no compromises have been made here -
Access have equipped the Virus PowerCore with a sound engine that is identical in
every way to that of the now legendary Virus series. The oscillator section features 3
main oscillators, each capable of generating one of 66 waveforms, plus a sub-oscillator
for those extra-deep basses. Add to this a noise generator, oscillator sync, FM and ring
modulation capabilties and you have a tone-palette that is truly vast! What's more, up to
16 voices can be achieved on each DSP, meaning those of you lucky enough to own
four PowerCores and the full license for your Virus PowerCore can infect their tracks
with up to 256 simultaneous voices of Virus phattitude!
The filters in the Virus PowerCore are second to none and with the flexible routing
options and a wide variety of saturation modes, all manner of filter characteristics can
be achieved. Anything from the smooth, warm tones associated with traditional analog
synthesizers to the most gut-wrenching, teeth-rattling, speaker-shredding sonic terror is
possible!
The Virus PowerCore also sports a powerful effects section, featuring effects such as
chorus, phaser, distortion, delay and reverb as well as input ring modulation and a voc-
oder. Furthermore, with its flexible audio inputs, the Virus becomes an incredibly power-
ful effects processor. Any audio signal can be routed through both the filters and effects,
so none of your audio tracks will be immune to infection!
One feature which you are bound to appreciate immediately is Access' acclaimed
Adaptive Parameter Smoothing technology. Unlike many other soft-synths, where every
parameter change is accompanied by obvious 'stepping' through the values, every
adjustment you make will happen seamlessly and in realtime, meaning that live tweak-
ing is now a truly joyful experience.
Loading and saving patches has never been easier, thanks to the advanced patch man-
agement system in the Virus PowerCore. As soon as the Virus plug-in is enabled, it
scans the PowerCore folder on your hard-drive and loads all of the patches it finds there
into RAM. From there it organises them into heirarchical menus and categories, so you
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