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First Joel only works in FL. Then he only uses logic. He's on his own when he's producing. He has a team of engineers when he's producing. He only uses softsynths. He only uses hardware. He's got no classical training. He's knows music theory.
Guys seriously, he just keeps it simple, which is why you hear presets and some basic effects. Basically he just uses sounds that work with melodies, then fx that compliment both those factors.
Don't believe a word you read or see about what he uses. The reason a camera is there is to promote something. He was all over FL, until a better offer came up, the suddenly he was using a completely different set of tools. It's all marketing. Just think about this: he recently said that he's been using certain plugs (fxpansion I think) for nearly all his tracks over the past few years, but during the past few years there were only mentions of other plugins. See what I'm getting at?
As for hardware vs software, you can so very nearly get the sounds out of software that you think are only available in a hardware synth - Bob Moog told me that the Arturia minimoog sounds virtually identical to the real deal - it's comes down sonic limitations within the processing of the audio conversion that creates a difference. That diffrence is enough though for some people to shell out $$$'s for the hardware version.
As for synths like the virus, if they ever made a softsynth version, access would never sell another hardware synth again. It's all modelled, meaning a computer can produce exactly them same sounds.
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