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OnceTwiceMelody
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I think I’m going to return my OpSix and Modwave. I’ll eat the restocking fees, it is what it is.
Today was pretty sobering for me. I think I’m done fighting for hardware. As much as I want individual instruments and don’t mind using a mix of both hardware and software, Korg really opened my eyes to how little they value their new hardware synths.
Just seems kind of weird to offer software versions of hardware that’s still in production. Triton, iPolysix, Wavestation, M1, they made sense. MS2000, MMT engine, those would be very welcome.
These though…it just feels very wrong. At least when Roland did it with the System-8, there was still an incentive to go physical and access unique features that are offered on hardware that you can’t do at all with the VST.
Well, you could do that....Or you could consider that maybe, just maybe, there are other reasons for owning hardware beyond believing it is inherently superior to everything else, and Korg understand this, and thereby understand there is a market for both hardware and software versions of its products, and it's not (despite what some angry forum denizens will say to the contrary) a one vs. the other scenario, and never really was. This is all the more true, I'd say, for instruments that are literally digital to begin with.
Or, you can sell you synths and keep up the bitter, persecuted dude act...