What the pluck?

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Originally Posted by Barnelby

Yeah, I guess it may have been a little extreme to assume that the digital synth world will suffer greatly as plugins get better. Obviously, digital synths will just get better, too. (Check out John Bowen's solaris if you haven't yet). However, as a producer, I feel like if my options are between a 2 thousand dollar piece of hardware and an equal or better plugin and a controller of my choice for an eight the price, the decision is a no brainer. As a performer, though, of course having a keyboard synth would be the obvious choice.

When we bring cost into the equation, software really wins.

In the case of Dune it's probably like $139 one time fee versus 3 grand for every Virus you want to match each individual DAW instance (assuming of course you have a good CPU).

Even if I subtract latency issues, I don't think there's any way I could get the same polyphony and richness as taking a great Dune patch, cloning it in the DAW and detuning or modifying slightly then layering with another instance (and even that is rarely necessary).

You cannot copy and paste a hardware synth to clone it