I think its easy to get lost in the hype... a good songwriter and a good producer will make it sound good. For mine, the TI has a definite warm and dark vibe. It blends nicely with the VSTs I prefer to use - Alchemy, NI Massive, and some other NI products (Reaktor/FM8, Kore 2) etc. I have no issues with getting it to work in my sequencer, and bouncing in real time is really not such a big deal. Perhaps a tad tongue in cheek, but if people spent less time posting about how long it took to bounce a track, and just spent it writing their music, then perhaps they would worry less
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