This is one reason why I prefer external hardware synths to software synths.

Synths I bought in the pre-Windows 3.1 era still work today. I these have ancient, pre-General MIDI synths; Yamaha TX81z, Roland MT32, and Akai S900 that are still useful to me today, even though I bought them when I was using an Atari/ST computer for my sequencing and the PC was still DOS based.

Since then I've added more MIDI synths and instead of losing the old sounds, I just gain more sounds to choose from, so the possibility increases that I can get just the right sound for each song.

I'd advise getting a good, outboard MIDI sound module, and forget about the soft synths. Computer technology will change rendering all present software obsolete and orphaned. MIDI seems to have some great staying power.

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