[sacredgeometry]

Its all about sound design for me to be honest, I would love nothing more to have albino/predator, sylenth, gladiator, ace or massive in a hardware synth it would allow me to get the most out of them which is hard even with the amount of control surfaces i have.

There is something special the virus though sound-wise, it really does make my excited when i make sounds on it I have had this experience with vsts too but of different flavours and in different places. Seriously though "Sound Quality" wise hardware has next to nothing to offer and all the sounds on any digital hardware could be recreated using pretty much identical algorithms on computers as thats all that they are in the end bar a few differences.

And the only reason we choose it over software is as a preference to that particular sound. Not because its any better or worse but because we prefer it.

I think alot of people enter into it expecting all their sound design problems to disappear. They think that because they have x synth and y multi effects module that they will be able to create Z sound. These are the people that tend to get disappointed. When they realise that all the sounds they make are exactly as limited as their own motivation to learn and that those synths they initially listed as useless were actually more capable then they were I can imagine its quite upsetting looking at an expensive lesson in patience.