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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..."?

I agree.  I have high hopes for the next generation of stuff from NI. 
Brian clevinger is hinting about a successor to  Absynth, and Kontakt 
is looking like it will be the BOMB.