I don't know if this relevant or not, because I use hardware synths:
  • Two Roland MT-32's
  • Two Roland SC-55's
  • Two Peavey Sample Players
  • One Akai sampler
  • Two Yamaha VL70m's
  • Two Yamaha TX81z's
  • One Korg DDD-5
  • One Korg DS-8
  • One Korg i3
  • One Edirol SD-90
Each synth has its strong instrument sounds and its weak instrument sounds. The challenge and part of the fun is to pick the right sound for the right instrument from the thousands of voices I have available to me.

The doubled MT-32 and SC-55 synths are due to the days when I brought sound modules to the gig, and needed a spare "just in case". I would prefer to have different synths to have different sounds, but sometimes layering two identical sounds panning one hard L and the other hard R or layering and detuning one just a few tics works wonders.


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