I have an SD-90, I don't know if they share the same sounds or not, but my SD-90 is one of my favorite sound modules.

I also find different sound modules have different 'strong' sounds. The acoustic bass on my Korg i3 is the best I have, while the clean guitars on the SD-90 are my favorites. The Yamaha VL70m gets the best sax sounds, and the Ketron SD2 has the best all around General MIDI set.

The nice thing about hardware synths is they all have about the same latency (5ms - or for all practical purposes, none) and they don't tax the CPU of the computer. So you can pick the best sound for the song you are working on from many different synths (if your sequencer or DAW can take more than one).

Another good thing is that they don't get orphaned when the computer OS upgrades. The TX81z I bought in the 1980s still works today and has a couple of sounds that are still better than newer synths (FM synthesis doesn't do everything, but what it does well, it does better than a "ROMpler").

I've mixed over a half dozen synths on one mix before.

Every hardware synth I have with a GM set sounds better than the MS, VSC, Coyote, or any other GM soft synth I've ever heard.

But I guess that's my personal taste showing. There are others who disagree, and they are probably right for the way they make music - and there is more than one right way to make music.

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