Dan, I think faster and easier outweighs great sounds when you are composing. You have to be able to get fast results when ideas strike. Later when the song is we’ll-honed, you can go into production for better sounds. This is why I held on to my Roland hardware synth for so long: it was faster and easier yet good enough.


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