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238 CHAPTER 23
Tips, tricks and other Words of Wisdom
Filter Balance
The filter section of the Virus puts
slopes of 12, 24 and 36 dB/oct. at
your disposal. In addition, the FILT
BALANCE knob lets you morph
smoothly from slope to another,
which effectively makes it infinitely
variable. Set the filter routing
option to SER 6 and both filters
to low-pass (LP). This gives you a
serial setup comprised of a 24-dB
and a 12-dB filter. When you set the
FILT BALANCE knob to the center
position, you end up with a filter
that has a slope of 36 dB/oct. As
you turn the knob to the left,
you’re fading Filter-2 out and consequently
steadily reducing the
slope until you arrive at 24 dB/oct.
You can morph from 24 decibels to
12 decibels by using the filter routing
option SER 4. In this configuration,
both filters have a slope of 12
dB/oct., so it doesn’t matter in
which direction you dial the FILT
BALANCE knob.
Filter Routing: SPLIT
In Filter SPLIT mode, each of the
two oscillators sends its signal into
one of the two filters. Each filtered
signal, in turn, is sent into a separate
VCA. The two VCAs can be
spread in the panorama via the
UNISON Pan Spread parameter.
The difference to UNISON mode is
that you only have one oscillator
and one filter available for each
side, although each with the full
complement of voices.