| One of the "baddest" Soft-Synths sound-wise I think is the Moog Modular Virtual from Arturia.
And the CS-80V is also great.
Very convincing, I like them a lot.
Sometime a little bit hard on the CPU, but as soon as you know what you want, you can bounce the track.
It's always worth the "soundquality".
Even though, I like some of the Native Instruments Goodies, some of their emulations are really cool, like the B4, FM7, Absynth.
But the Pro-53 wasn't to conivincing to my ears, didn't liked the sound.
The "beeeeeest" VSTi they've done so far, in my opinion, is BATTERY. It's such a cool Drum-Sampler.
The Arturia Synths are the only one, that I really can think of being "analogue" in the Soft-Synth-Domain. Really smooth sounding.
The others aren't so convincing in the "highs", where they have problems with aliasing.
Another nice VSTi-Concept that catched my interest lately, is the Hypersonic from Steinberg.
It's a "virtual" Workstation-Concept, and I heard it lately at my local-shop and was positive surprised.
I think it's ideal for "songwriting" purposes and as you've mentioned, you're looking for some VSTi's for your laptop.
I think it's great for such an application like this, if you're "on tour" and want a whole arsenal of good sounds, both acoustic and synth-like.
Maybe worth a try! But I'm not sure how CPU-heavy it is.
Just my 2 cents,
j.m |