[TheHobbit]

Personally demoed Dune2 and own spire, along with the Virus which is going nowhere!!!

I have demoed Dune2 but it just doesn't cut it for me. That said I have an array of softsynths. Spire is heaps ahead of DUNE2 with filter and sound selection. Of course thats my personal opinion, others may think else wise. I can see and did hear the appeal of DUNE, but spire seems to deliver better for me.

But then i am someone who has collected a lot of plugins and missed my soul purpose of synths and music. Physical, tactile knobs and keys for tweaking the sounds. Hard to be spontaneous and reactive with a softsynths, ASIO spikes and so forth.
That being said the sound quality between soft and hard synths is getting forever closer!