Link me and you'll have 501 at least
That is surprising!
Even with all its faults, I do intend someday to pick up another Virus. I don't care if it's the older one and not the Ti. Just want to fiddle around with it again for giggles, I highly doubt I'm ever going to record anything with stuff like that again.
I never knew Sylenth1 was so popular. I stumbled across it in 2011-ish in college via google, the site is still up but has looked the same for the last decade. Admittedly at the time I wasn't super involved in online groups, forums, or even local music. I just went to class, then up to my studio apartment and locked myself away for the weekend, headphones on, messing with synthesizers and occasionally googling how to replicate a certain sound I heard on someone else's track (ex. tying a filter on a pad to a bass drum bus to get the pulsing effect). So I was pretty siloed and didn't interact much with other musicians, so I never learned a good process or what the common/useful stuff was.
I also used to make a bunch of chiptunes. Sometimes combining that with other things... like a little 8-bit flourish or something in a song otherwise not that lo-fi. I thought it sounded really cool... I think the synth I used for that was... Bleep?
And of course being a college kid at the time, no money to buy physical hardware. Getting my hands on that first Virus was the culmination of a lot of savings which is why I look back on it with a bit of regret since I had to sell it off so quick - basically I had to decide between selling the Virus or my Marshall TSL (my only amp at the time) and I picked guitar. Speaking of regrets I have the mp3 bounces of some of my songs, in varying versions as I added or changed stuff, but I do wish I still had the original files. Most of them were Logic but I made a few in Cakewalk Sonar (a pirated version, at the time, before it went free).
