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Originally Posted by Raider 
I'm stickn' by my earlier statement. "It's inevitable." |
Actually you are wrong.
And you are wrong because you make a big assumption... that hardware manufacturers will sit with the hand crossed waiting for software (aka pc software) to catch up.
The market actually shows the opposite signs, hardware manufacturers keep improving the software inside their hardware to compete with the latest pc software and of course the hardware iproves as well, with more memory and more processing power. Take a look at the latest workstations , they fight back furiously providing some of the best tools on the market in one compact solution. And of course there are the specialisation tools that have no equal in quality in the pc software (see H8000).
The weakness in your argument is that you assume that good sounds equals more processing power. Actually sound quality and the musical nature of a tool depends in very good research and development. Hardware tends to lead and pc software tends to follow. That has been the trend for decades now and it does not show any signs of change.
For me the inevitable future is that both hardware and software will loose and win at the same time, and what will this give birth to is a true hybrid that unifies the best of available technologies. They have been products that try to bridge the gap already , but still we have a long way to go.
Future is far from clear but I can promise you that it does not involve how many cores are dwelling inside your box.