Agreed, and even some of the good hardware sytns are becoming software dependent. i.e. With my AN-200 not all of the parameters can be accessed through the hardware interface.. I have to boot into that other OS to run the software to create patches with all the flexibility that the device offers.
I think this is a really sucky direction for synthesis to take, actually.
You can turn on and play a MiniMoog without needing anything else around. To have to boot up a lumbering behemoth of a PC just to be able to edit patches, well ... that's just not hardware synthesis.
Hardware synthesis means *nothing* else but what is in front of you is needed in order to realize the potential of the hardware. At least, that's what it means to us, anyway ...
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