EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:42 AM 3/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>Thanks for the samples.  Do you like the virus and find it versatile
>compared with soft synths.  I sold all my analog gear a few years ago. I
>had a synth called a VOyetra 8 with a great arppegiater and have been
>sorry ever since. Thought about the virus.

The Voyetra 8 is a great story! I remember the rack, and it had a modular 
arcitecture and so many killer analog things on it. I would love to have 
one again.

It was so ahead of its time, the first versions had a XLR jack for the MIDI 
in and outs - they wrongly anticipated what the plug spec was going to be. 
And it was 8 voices with oscillators that had sub-oscillators...

I even had a Kitten and a Cat that the company (called Octave-Plateau) made 
beforehand; essentially the V-8 was a derivative and improvement on those 
designs.

O-P was so ahead of the curve they made a separate joystick controller that 
controlled parameters in a A-B-C-D fashion - the joystick is even on  the 
V-8 too. This is really before Korg put joysticks on their keyboards - the 
first of those was the Poly-800 if I remember right.

Oh, these vintage tangents...

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User