I have an old Sound Canvas SC55 that to my ears surpasses any software General MIDI synth I've heard (and I haven't heard them all).

And the Ketron SD-2 leaves it in the dust.

And like I said before, (1) when the computer's OS gets upgraded, your hardware synth will still work (2) because much of the sounds are in ROM they can be more complex than software synth sounds that need to manufacture each note using math and your computer's CPU (3) virtually no latency (4) you can mix and match dozens of hardware synths, picking the best sounds of each, and there is no taxing of the CPU or latency (it's actually about having the musician 5 feet away from you) (5) I've been using hardware synths since the 1980s, have added new ones to my collection, and have never had one crash or lock up my computer.

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