Virus Rack

Does size matter today?

For us, it does. When we developed the Virus Rack, we attached a high importance in maintaining the same ease of use as we did with the Virus b. Our highest goal has been to create a musical instrument which brings together the excellent user interface of the Virus series, with the compactness and excellent value for money of a rack device.

What does that mean to you?
Basically, you won’t need to stick with the 512 preset sounds just because you detest studying user manuals.
With only two buttons and five rotary encoders, you will be able to directly access 35 key parameters, without looking at the display or getting lost in submenus.* Furthermore we include a cost free Editor/Librarian (based on the award winning Emagic Sounddiver™) for direct on-screen access to all parameters.
Are you a guitar player or a DJ? Do you need to bring your sound to the next level? It’s so easy, simply use the audio input on the front panel to manipulate your favourite sonic source using the complete synthesis of the Virus Rack. If you love to filter and vocode, or if you’re in need of a multi effect processor, we give this to you as a free addition to the legendary Virus engine. It even offers advanced features such as the brand new Reverb algorithm and the Groove-Delay.

The Virus Rack – much more than just another rackmount instrument.FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS INCLUDE:
  • 5 Knobs, 12 Buttons, 16 LEDs
  • Dimensions: 482 x 183 x 44 mm, weight net. = 2.3kg
  • 16 Voices/ 16 way multimode
  • 512 programs [256 User, 256 ROM, 128 Multi]
  • 3 oscillators per voice.
  • 2 main oscillators plus one sub oscillator Sawtooth, variable pulse, sine, triangle waves + 62 additional spectral waves
  • 2 fully independent filters per voice, each user selectable as lowpass, highpass, bandpass or bandreject
  • 4 filter routings in serial/parallel configurations
  • Saturation/distortion effect per voice
  • 3 LFOs
  • 2 ADSTR envelopes [T=time]
  • Simultaneous DSP effects like:
    • Reverb/Groove-delay [digital delay with rhythmic patterns, the reverb can even synthe the pre-delay to MIDI-clock]
    • Chorus/Flanger
    • Analog Boost for true vintage tonal characteristics
  • 16 independent arpeggiators with numerous of arpeggiator patterns and realtime parameter access
  • Global master clock that drives all arpeggiators, lfos and delay; automatic sync to midi clock
  • 2 individual inputs with various signal processing features such as filter, distortion, vocoder, reverb, groove delay
  • Front panel mono input for guitar and line level signals
  • Rear panel stereo inputs suitable for turntables and other stereo signals
  • Input can be used in a send/return loop
  • 4 Individual high quality outputs
  • Full 24bit processing; 24 bit d/a, 18 bit a/d converters
  • Complex modulation matrix with numerous destinations
  • Complete parameter control via midi with Adaptive Control Smoothing for ultra soft parameter changes
  • Free Emagic Sounddiver OEM for Virus based editor/librarian for Windowsª and MacOSª
  • In the future, we will provide a hardware upgrade to all Virus Indigo features