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Thoughts from the mind of Ronald C.F. Antony, 26-02-2002:

>  > Why is it that 99% of all VST synths seem to be emulations of really
>>  old gear?  Hammond B4, mellotron, Rhodes piano, Clavinet, old digital
>>  gear like the PPG Wave, an endless array of analog synths, etc -- the
>>  list goes on ad infinitum.
>
>Could it be that these are less CPU intensive to emulate? A K2600 with
>up to 92 oscillators active, w/o even counting the processing going on
>in the KDFX unit seems like it would burn serious CPU cycles..

Good point.  OTOH, there _are_ things between a Mini Moog and a 
K2600, right? :-)  I mean, a M1 uses a 68000 processor -- should be 
feasible to emulate on a G4, me thinks.  And even then: why emulate a 
particular existing synth?  Why not just make something "along the 
lines of..."?

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