Virus or deepmind – Hardware (Instruments and Effects) Forum

I bought a Deepmind 12 a month ago, and was initially disappointed in it after trying all the presets, and unplugged it ready to put it back in in its box. But I decided to give it another go the other day, and started by initialising it and building my own sounds from scratch. Now I am really enjoying using it, and my Alpha Juno 2 and Juno 6 are both being ignored as the Deepmind can get pretty close to both of them in a much smaller compact design.

As for a Virus versus Deepmind comparison I guess it depends what sort of sounds you are looking for? The Deepmind presets are full of sounds based on the FX and Mod Matrix, and they may appeal to someone seeking the Virus sound, as they radically change the sound from analogue sounding to digital, and have plenty of weird stuff in there, but I have never played a Virus so cannot comment. The main point for me of the Deepmind is the buttons and sliders which gives hands on control of the main parameters while shaping the sound I am looking for.