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Originally Posted by Dan Phillips That's a cool setup. In re synths, the "way better audio quality" is difficult to support IMO. Nothing in your list (including the Logic softsynths) has particularly good aliasing characteristics, for instance.
I personally don't use OASYS as a workstation; I use DP for sequencing and recording. I just use OASYS as a synth, which also happens to be the part that my group worked on. It's absolutely more expensive than other solutions - kind of like that Apogee interface. Is it worth it? That depends on whether or not you hear the differences that it provides, and if you hear them, whether or not you feel that you need them.
I'll leave other people to speculate on the resale value of softsynths, software, laptops, and audio interfaces vs. synths....
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i'm with dan on this one.. say what you want about softsynths and the like's resale value. i don't know if you could get one quarter the cash you put into a softsynth in resale. how many people here can resale reactor 3 for atlease $200? none, but i could still get atleast $700 for my minty condition triton pro. don't bother trying to sell albino, z3ta, or even fm7 at that matter. you won't get but pennies for it along with a bunch of drama trying to transfer ownership. there are (originally) $1000 (or more) matrix 6 racks that are still going for $300 and up and that a 17 year old peice of 6 polyphony gear! not to mention you'll be paying that upgrade price for as long as you have the software whatever and it will be more powerfull and suck more life out of that 2 year limit computer you already slapped about $2500 bucks in. and you'll need another $2500. so in 2 years, you've already spent 5 grand just on a computer with a very limited life expectancy. that's more than half the cost of the most advanced workstation to ever hit the market. the only thing on that list that i saw earlier that's going to retain value is the yamaha s90es(hardware), the macbook pro(another peice of hardware) and logic (only going for like half). oh yeah the apogee unit (that's another peice of hardware).. by the way you forgot about a lcd monitor, control surface and more. the oasys sounds better than anything on the market.. the sounds are not dead at all... granted they are not overly processed, but i'm sure you can understand the power of if sounding as well without a bunch of crap on top. why don't you slap that extra tremelo on your rhodes or that long decay on your pianos. how about that crazy multitap on your lead synths. it's on you, but to me you still don't need it with this board. this board is ready to run as soon as you power it up out of the box. other stuff has to be set up. with hundreds of downloads and upgrades you have to keep up with. and God forbid your computer ever crashes and you have to reinstall everything again and explain to all of your software companies why you want to reinstall something you've already paid for, or like waves you'll just have to pay for it again!!! i say keep it simple. get an oasys and make some music without having to jump through 99 hoops to make a song you love.