User Guide

ACCESS VIRUS OS4 127
Main Edit Menu (Common)
pitch is bent ever more radically. In
this mode you can achieve slight
fluctuations in pitch, for instance a
manual vibrato, provided you can
maintain a soft touch, yet still have
the option of generating greater
intervals because of the exponen-
tial increase in range.
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SMOOTH MODE This is an adaptive
parameter smoothing mode
(Adaptive Control Smoothing).
You’ll find a detailed explanation
of this parameter in “The Virus
and Sequencers” on page 213.
You have the following options to
chose from:
 OFF Adaptive Control Smooth-
ing is disabled and parameter
changes are carried out incremen-
tally without smoothing.
 ON Adaptive Control Smooth-
ing is enabled and parameter
changes are smooth.
 AUTO Adaptive Control
Smoothing analyzes the character-
istics of the incoming in parameter
changes and carries out these out
either continuously (smoothed) or
incrementally.
 NOTE Adaptive Control
Smoothing is carried out continu-
ously (smoothed), but jumps in
steps when a new note is played.
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Unison Mode
determines how many voices the
Virus will use to render a played
note. In a nutshell, it determines
how fat or big the sound will be.
When you activate UNISON mode
for a sound, it can still be played
polyphonically. However, depend-
ing on the number of voices you’ve
dialed in, its polyphony will of
course be considerably reduced in
UNISON mode. The most efficient
and the standard setting is UNI-
SON mode = Twin, where two