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Concept And Operation

Operating Modes

In the Virus you can select from two basic operating modes, SINGLE MODE and MULTI MODE.
In SINGLE MODE, the Virus is able to generate a single sound program only. All 24 voices, all
effects and most importantly, all control features (with the exception of the MULTI button) func-
tion in conjunction with this one sound program. You might say a SINGLE program is a combi-
nation of all functions and effects that determine the sound of the Virus. In other words: A
SINGLE program is a "sound" of the Virus, that can be stored and recalled.
The Virus provides access to 1024 SINGLE sounds. Next to the 768 RAM sounds (Bank A and
Bank B), you have six banks available with a total of 1024 factory sounds. These banks, C to H,
are stored in the FLASH ROM and can not be overwritten via STORE.
The MIDI receive channel in SINGLE MODE is the Global Channel. You can change the Global
Channel in the CONFIG menu.
In MULTI MODE, the Virus can combine up to sixteen (SINGLE) sound programs, among which
the maximum available number of 24 voices are allocated dynamically. All simultaneously avail-
able sounds can be manipulated in real-time; for this purpose the control panel enables you to
switch among the sixteen so-called PARTS.
In MULTI MODE, the actual sound parameters are augmented with other functions that deal
with how the involved SINGLE programs are structured or organized. These include the volume
levels of the single programs, their MIDI channels, output assignments, etc.
On the Virus, we differentiated fundamentally between SINGLE mode and MULTI mode. This
distinction is reflected in the contents of the menus: If the LED on the SINGLE button lights up,
the CONFIG and EDIT menus let you access the sound parameters of the current SINGLE pro-
gram. If the LED on the MULTI button lights up, the CONFIG and EDIT menus will contain the
appropriate "administrative" parameters for the current MULTI program. For example, here you
have the option of selecting the SINGLE program for each of the 16 MULTI PARTs.
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