>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..."? I agree. I have high hopes for the next generation of stuff from NI. Brian clevinger is hinting about a successor to Absynth, and Kontakt is looking like it will be the BOMB.