Thoughts from the mind of Ronald C.F. Antony, 26-02-2002: > > Why is it that 99% of all VST synths seem to be emulations of really >> old gear? Hammond B4, mellotron, Rhodes piano, Clavinet, old digital >> gear like the PPG Wave, an endless array of analog synths, etc -- the >> list goes on ad infinitum. > >Could it be that these are less CPU intensive to emulate? A K2600 with >up to 92 oscillators active, w/o even counting the processing going on >in the KDFX unit seems like it would burn serious CPU cycles.. Good point. OTOH, there _are_ things between a Mini Moog and a K2600, right? :-) I mean, a M1 uses a 68000 processor -- should be feasible to emulate on a G4, me thinks. And even then: why emulate a particular existing synth? Why not just make something "along the lines of..."? -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html