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Originally Posted by TweakHead
It's more a question of what really matters to you. I made that very same choice myself, once. Got a C. Because to me the hands on approach was the thing, at the moment. Wouldn't mind to have a Snow to, because of features that have been added meanwhile. And that's without mentioning the Virus Control plug-in and it's added convenience. I really learned a lot from building my sounds tweaking knobs instead of going through menus and I feel I've developed a very intuitive way of getting sounds out of it. Most of what people talk about when they go obsessive about some classic is related to both the sound and the way they used to work with them, it's all to easy to get lost just tweaking knobs and playing - it all feels like an instrument.
So you'd probably be better off with a Virus ti desktop version - if you want the best of both worlds: to have the latest features and the knob action, if you ask me. But where money is a problem, you need to ask yourself if hands action and knob tweaking is more important to you then new features and integration with the Daw (that sometimes has it's flaws, like most guys here flame about all the time, but seems to be a lot better these days.
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So well said! Without a single doubt, I think it's VERY important for a person to learn "Basic Synthesis 101 and 102" by using a physical interface and learning modulation methods "hands-on" coupled with one's ears. That could be a real analog or a virtual analog, using subtractive synthesis and actually, even using a cheap Korg Monotron to firstly see and hear the basic components' interactions with each other. Mentioned this because if one wants their sound to "be their own", regardless of which synth one is using, it really requires one to KNOW how to get beyond the facade of presets. Technological advancements are continuing to be great for musicians but what I have repeatedly seen through ALOT of reading many pro forums is this "immediacy approach" where people have owned a synth and do nothing but purchase new preset soundsets rather than actually go down the rabbit hole and learn to make entirely original sounds on their own and this seems to apply to alot of vst-based synths. I think this also contributes to stereotypes about certain synths "ONLY" good for trance, et al! It would do alot of people some good to get back to basics and even learn what the definition of musical synthesizer is even. Here's a cool link that I found that takes one on this journey and is a keeper :
http://moinsound.wordpress.com/2011/...t-synthesizer/ Lastly, as tweakhead said quite rightly, alot of factors should be considered when choosing your synth because the physical interface is just as important as the key-action. My 3 or 4 cents! HAPPY NEW YEAR!