JASON DONNELLY: Alright, this is cool. If you're not already excited about owning a Virus TI, you're going to get even more into it. I'm updating my Virus right now. Oop, just finished. Cool. Completed the Virus Ti Software Suite Setup. Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com, and one of the things I'm known for here in Gearwire is getting my hands on some new gear or new software and basically just busting it open here on camera and trying my best to show you what it can do. This is the new Atomizer. It's in beta right now. It's a software application developed by Access for their Virus TI synth, and I saw it at NAMM in action, got my hands on it now. For the first time, I'm going to crack the manual open and hopefully do something cool with it.

The first page of the owner's manual that actually has something other than the title of the owner's manual is this, and it says, "Atomizing loudly once a day keeps you happy :)". Can you see that? Well, let's see if that's true. If it is, they're going to put a lot of pharmaceutical companies out of business.

So, what is Atomizer? Atomizer is, at its heart, an instant looping device. It enables you to play beat-synced loops on your keyboard in real time taken from any audio you choose to send into the Virus TI inputs. Loop lengths can range from a half note minimum down to a 32nd note and from there down to slices so small that they are perceived as pitched notes.

So, I just updated my Virus OS. The lights are blinking once again, and we're going to give the new Atomizer glitch software a whirl. Some of us are easily amused, and I happen to be one of them, blinking lights and all.

The incoming audio is sent as a dry signal, straight back to the outputs but as -- Soon as you hit one of the loop or buffer keys, a sample is taken at that instant and looped at the rate determined by the key you played. For as long as you hold the key down, you will only hear the loop to buffer, and as soon as you release the key you will hear the dry signal again.

Okay. So anyway, what a great synth, the Access Virus TI. TI stands for "Totally Integrated", and it's connected to my PC via USB and I ran the updater. To the back here, there's the USB cable and I'm going to open the software Atomizer and see what this is all about.

The time flow of the incoming signal is not affected by this, so the song will continue underneath the Atomizer. Okay, effectively what you're doing -- everything I have read before this, this is basically -- everything in nutshell is you're replacing portions of the incoming audio with loop slices of itself. Wow! Let's see if I can live up to that. It's a pretty interesting concept, and it definitely seems like it would put a lot of glitch producers out of business or that -- or make their job a lot easier.

Okay, so Atomizer is located in the inputs pages of the Common Edit Menu, which would be over there on the Virus, so I'm going to move to that so stay tuned. Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com and the Access Atomizer.