ACCESS
VIRUS 2 REDBACK
MADE
IN GERMANY
SERIAL
NUMBER: IRBbUZPa8h8*
Used
Condition
is very good. There are scratches on the ends.
Please
refer to pictures.
It may sound like a venomous
antipodean arachnid, and you may even find mention of it on the web (groan...)
but this particular Redback is in fact a limited edition version of Access'
Indigo 2 virtual analogue synthesizer. The differences between the Redback and
regular Indigo 2 are purely cosmetic, with the additional “collectability
factor” that every Redback sports the signatures of its creators, Guido Kirsch
and Christoph Kemper. Instead of the standard Indigo silver body/blue lights
colour scheme, the Redback is decorated in the same vampiric black livery and
red illuminations as the Virus-C. Curiously, the back of the instrument is not
red but black — however, the name does not refer to the rear panel. Look
carefully around the Tempo LED, and if you get the angle of light just right,
you will see a glossy black spider printed on the matt black panel. The red LED
is on the back of the spider's abdomen — hence the arachnid moniker.
The release of the Redback also heralds the latest OS update, OS
6.0, for the Virus range of synths. The Virus operating system was last
reviewed with the Virus-C, at which point it had reached version 5.0