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Originally Posted by richmondjames I agree with you to a point- but sometimes there is a lot to be said for less than perfect AD/DA conversion.
The highest audio fidelity isn't always a desirable characteristic.
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crappy converts are what give many classics their sound. i forget the model but someone added a digital output to an old synth and it went from sounding great to sounding crap. how good can can the samplers sound and they ran at very low sample rates, so much for all the hype about 192KHz. hardware, at least the older stuff, was made as an entire unit not as a sound being generated then going to a seperate converter.
there are so many synths around now days its hard to answer this without narrowing down comparisons.
for somethings software has proven its self. for others, like analogue synths, software will replace the sound of them. to me this whole idea of 'analogue modelling' is ridiculous, you can not replicate that old analogue hardware in a bit of software. 'analogue' shouldn’t be written on a piece of software unless its a patch in a sampler.
anyway, 'quality' can be matched and often exceeded (if exceeding the quality is good for your application) it comes down to how you use the sounds.
i still like hardware, knobs and buttons are nice.