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CHAPTER 6
Synthesis Parameters

The Effects menu contains the parameters of
the effects section and audio inputs (INPUT).
The following effects are available individually
per PART – i.e. you have 16 versions available,
all in stereo:

The vocoder and the delay/reverb section are
each available just once, but they can be ad-
dressed individually by the PARTs. In the sig-
nal path, all effects are connected in series in
accordance with sequence in the Effects
menu.

 

Here’s a rundown on the various DISTORTION
modes:

-  OFF  The signal is not processed.

-  LIGHT, SOFT, MIDDLE, HARD  Different an-

alog distortion curves with different charac-
teristics and intensities. 

-  DIGITAL  Digital distortion with hard clipping. 

-  SHAPER  Sine characteristic curve with sev-

eral wave cycles. With the Shaper, you can
drastically warp signals. In some cases, the
results are similar to the spectra of linear fre-
quency modulations.

-  RECTIFIER  Continuous rectification of the

signal; this type of distortion is independent
of the given level.

-  BITREDUCER  Continuous reduction of the

digital signal’s bit depth; generates digital
quantization noise.

-  RATEREDUCER  Continuous reduction of

the digital sampling rate; generates digital
aliasing. 

-  LOWPASS   1-pole low-pass filter for moder-

ate processing of high frequencies. 

-  HIGHPASS  1-pole high-pass filter for mod-

erate processing of low frequencies.

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For the distortion curves, this intensity range is
equivalent to a gain boost of 12 decibels, in the
case of the ”Digital” curve as much as 24 deci-
bels. A special feature of the VIRUS’ SATURA-
TION stage is that, despite the fact that its gain
is boosted, the signal level is kept constant so
that only the tonal color or timbre of the sound
is varied.

RINGMODULATOR

DISTORTION

ANALOG BOOST

PHASER

CHORUS

EQUALIZER