Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I agree actually, I think in a few years we'll see a revival of NV-VSTi's 
(non-virtual VSTi's).  Even if it means that they simply package the 
VSTi's into hardware controllers (which basically what a VA is now).  See, 
manufacturer's didn't learn this lesson the firs time around, which was 
only a few years ago ironically enough.  At the time all of analog 
keyboards started to lose favor with people looking for "more portable" 
and "easier to store presets" in a synth.  So we got a bunch of menu 
driven synths that while maybe more powerful, we're ultimately less fun to 
program (arguably of course).  So you see this big influx of keyboards 
recently with more knobs and less menu drive.

The softsynth phenomenom is the same thing IMO.  Yeah they sound really 
cool, and yeah they're easy to back up, but they're not much fun to PLAY 
and program unless you have a dedicated control surface for each one! Very 
few control surfaces built today can cope with more than VSTi template in 
a way that barely approaches elegance.  And you have to have one with 
expensive endless rotaries to even stand a chance at decent workflow.

rEalm



In my opinion, the whole softsynth thing is a fad that will 
pass...eventually.








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