Access Music Electronics

Access Music is a privately held manufacturer of musical instruments from Germany. Founded in 1997, the company initially set out to build hardware editors that would let users access sound parameters buried in menu-driven synthesizers, but soon turned to building its own synthesizer. Its first Virus synth was a 12-voice virtual analog synthesizer that deliberately avoided cloning any particular vintage product, giving the company freedom to evolve the sound engine through free software updates. The company describes itself as having about 20 full-time employees, and its Virus instrument is sold worldwide through an extensive dealer network.

Access Music is a privately held manufacturer of musical instruments from Germany. It was founded in 1997 with the mission to build hardware editors that would let users access the sound parameters buried in menu-driven synthesizers, but the company soon found that building its own synthesizer would be more fun. The first Virus synth was a 12-voice virtual analog synthesizer, unique compared with competitor products in that it was not trying to clone any particular vintage product. This gave Access Music the freedom to evolve the sound engine in creative directions, which it did through completely free software updates. In the years since, the synthesizer's voice count has grown to nearly a hundred, and the standalone hardware instrument gained the capability for total integration into the modern sequencer environment, with its USB connection providing features such as total recall and sample accurate timing. Access Music today describes itself as a modern company with about 20 full-time employees, each with a music background ranging from classical piano to production to DJing. Its mission is to build stellar sounding musical instruments packed with innovative and industry-leading features, delivering products by musicians for musicians. The Virus is sold worldwide through an extensive dealer network, and artists from Depeche Mode to Prodigy, from Sasha to Hans Zimmer, NIN to Neptunes and Linkin Park to Dr. Dre rely on it on their tours and in the studio.

Builds stellar sounding musical instruments packed with innovative and industry-leading features, delivering products by musicians for musicians.

• Virus TI

  Totally Integrated Synthesizer with USB connection providing total recall and sample accurate timing.

• Virus synthesizer

  Virtual analog synthesizer line, first released as a 12-voice instrument and later grown to nearly a hundred voices.

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