Originally posted by [SCREWHEAD]...

I want your setup!

Originally posted by HIDRA...

it say:

"There was never a 404! in japan "4" is an unlucky number, a little like our "13". We have only the deranged minds of japanese musicians to thank for the wonderous box known as the "303". True innovation through design.
Love your 303!
d.a.v.e the drummer"

Originally posted by SCOTTYP...

No way the cleanest sound is the all digital path of the computer software synths. As soon as you have wires and a/d conversion the quality of the sound is going to go down (unless you use all digital connections of have a really awesome a/d converter). But generally hardware synths produce sound of a higher quality since the developers aren't going to release software of the same quality. Novation isn't going to release soft synths that sound as good as their hardware. Nord doesn't release soft synths at all. The access virus soft synth is only available for protools. The nord synths and the access virus are some of the best virtual analogs you can get. The roland jp8080 is really good too, and you can't get a software version of that.

Computers also crash more often. If your softsynth crashes it can take out your whole sequencer program (even on a mac, don't tell me it doesn't happen because I've seen it happen a lot). If your hardware synth crashes (which is generally more rare, but can happen) all you have to do is restart it and you can get back to work right away. If you have one computer, and it is running 10 vst synths at once, it's not likely to be a very stable setup. Big studios/rich musicians generally have SEVERAL computers, and a couple are dedicated solely to running vst synths.

Analog synths on the other hand are a completely different story. Nothing sounds like real analog synths. The virtuals don't even come close. The minimoog vst is a really great software synthesizer but doesn't sound anything like a real minimoog. Having used large modular analog synthesizers before I can tell you that the virtual ones don't even come close. Analogs are often dirty, unpredictable, and will respond to the slightest change in settings (we are not talking about 0-127 levels using midi, it's infinite). If you have a good analog synth you can make HUGE sounds using only one oscilator. You can ussually get huge bass sounds and never have to worry about aliasing.

Since I don't have much money though, I use mostly software.

Novation , access and clavia do'nt make analogue synths