About all a DAW can effectively do (bar DSP systems) is provide sample playback with limited synthesis capability let alone accuracy of filters, lfo etc
I much prefer solid state devices such as motif, roland gear etc
Can’t agree. I had PPG 2.3, CS80, Polysix and others. I sold them since I could not hear any difference to the emulated ones I own. I still have 10 hardware Synth’s and samplers and I do not switch them on anymore.
If the latter surely you cannot hang onto old gear like that.
It is very expensive to make solid state as deep bit-depth wise as software but that does not mean the result is better.
With software you have unstable oscillations thus are useless for song writing.
As for sample playback, about the best you will get is drum playback and some mediocre orchestral sounds.
Even motif has limited bit depth. Fantom range is better but cakewalk is bad software so stick to cubase/roland for now until I can afford the real deal (kurzweil or modern moogers etc).
I don’t write much synth stuff at this time but when I do access virus on powercore isn’t far away and in the back of my mind is the old creamware range as they have updated ASIO to 2.2, but not VST3.
I’d like to see what HAL4 will offer but for now I am sticking to tried and true X-table from terratec on Kontakt 4 and when I want to record I use Fantom over USB for reliability (no thanks mlan/firewire).
Amongst, the rest of that steaming pile of “information”, is this charming theory … He wants to go moog for the stable oscillators … good luck with that.
I’m hoping Mr. saver is just having a laugh. Otherwise …shudder…
The Yamaha CS 80 was for sure an “Analog-Monster” (PPG was a different thing that time). I still have solo tracks where I have recorded the CS 80. I have done comparison with the emulated CS 80 by Arturia. I might be deaf but it was nearly impossible to tell the difference (beside the fact that the “Soft-CS80” did not run out of tune).
Most of the todays Hardware Synths are computers anyway, they even boot…
We will announce those things with the offical product announcement as well. But yes, there will be a grace period for customer who just bought Cubase 5.