Wheter hoax or not, this kind of total integration is the right way to go for hardware epuipment.
Compared to plug-ins, hardware synths are currently a big hassle to work with in terms of recalling the settings from song to song, having the song play correctly after some time, selecting patches/editing the multi and archiving patches. And in most cases all this needs to be done for a number of outside equipment per song, not just one synth. How many editors would one like to open in parallel to an overloaded sequencer? I for instance have to open one for the Virus, one for the Motif Rack and one for TR-Rack. I'd need a video wall to see them all at once, plus Cubase doesn't like to loose focus all the time.
The way integration is described above, it reminds TC Powercore combined with an outside audio/midi interface, so it must be feasible.
Anyone who wrote the specs, be it Access or a regular user like us, really understands where music tech goes and proposes something that is both feasible and needs to be done to compete to the ever better sounding plug-ins.
As far as the new sound engine is concerned, having 16 single sounds would of course be awesome, but this maybe the biggest hint for a hoax, as 16 delay/reverbs do need a lot of power and RAM. Add to these fx 80+ poly and you have something way beyond today's standards...
Time will tell!
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