ill join in ...
I started composing on soft synth's and i worked like that for 2 years... after hearing real analog and working on hardware synths at a freind studio ive spent 3 years of my life working to get all the hardware synths i needed.
soft synths are nice, they do get better and they do sound good, but can you
feel the music playing on soft synths ???
NO.
write a nice lead pattern and run it on softsynth, now take the same pattern and run it on prophet 5. what do you get ???
ok. hardware it is