Composition thread

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Friday 07 December 2007, Christopher Stamper wrote:
> OT, but what do you guys recommend for a synth? Software (qsynth, etc) or
> hardware?

Depends on what you're going to do with it, and how much money you have.  For 
an all around General MIDI sound provider, I still love my old Roland Sound 
Canvas, and think it wins for being consistently decent across the board, 
even though none of its sounds are that great.  I've got soundfonts with a 
better piano, a better oboe, whatever, but the Roland is still my workhorse 
after 12 years.

However, hardware is the expensive way to go, and these days you have to do 
most of your shopping on eBay, because they've discontinued so much of this 
kind of technology in favor of the next generation, which revolves around 
samplers.
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D. Michael McIntyre