FROM DEPECHE AND JARRE DOWN EVERYONE NODS SAGELY WHEN YOU SEE A VIRUS IN THE STUDIO
In the 1990s, Access were creating MIDI controllers for the likes of Oberheim and Waldorf but it wasn’t a direction the company would pursue for long. “We found that building our own synthesiser would be much more fun,” they decided. More fun and successful as it turned out. What they built would define tracks and genres well into the next century.
The Access Virus (which became ‘A’) was their first release. While probably not a name synth manufacturers would choose these days, this Virus was very much something people wanted back in the ’90s. On the face of it, it was an out and
