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| quote: | | Starting with February (I think) issue, FM (future music) magazine has a series of write-ups on Hardware VS Software. The Moog software cam close but didn't win, but FM-7 (NI) did - even Brian Eno said that aside from maybe a few particluar quirks that the instrument has, he could not tell the difference between real yamaha and VSTi. VSTis have come a long way. With advance of controllers like MicroKorg and Novation 25 you'll soon see VSTis place HW out of business. That's why companies like Novation are getting into the sw market and getting out of the HW market. Hell, roland tried it with their VariOS (which many claim is a $1000 dongle). ONce manufacturers of soft vst'is will figure out to secure their products, it's buh-bye hardware. You'll probably see just hard-core companies stick around, like Access, Waldorf, Oberheim, Roland, and Korg, Clavia. The rest will go the way of dodo. Give it maybe 4-5 years (or less). |
Emulating the fm7 isn't rocket science. Moogs, cs80's, imposcars, these are 20-30 year old synths which is why it's possible to emulate them, and still on a p3.2ghz you can run but a few before your cpu usage goes belly up. Try emulating a virus c or nord 3 , no chance.
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take a look at the nord 3, it has 6 dsp chips. and the virus c dsp is unknown. hardware will never go buh bye, in your generation or in your childrens. sure powercore just released the virus vst, but i don't think they are worried about piracy, since the powercore card acts as a nice 500 dollar dongle. As software gets better so will hardware. hardware will always be one step ahead.
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