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personally I think these software synths have a lot of promise. They fail miserably in their emulation of old analogue synths, but once you stop trying to make it copy other things you can see the implications, you just need the brains for them...I can't really say anything about Rebirth but Generator is a pretty amazing program with a lot of potential. Especially as CPU speeds increase I think software stuff is going to be where the most innovation happens...I'm sure they're used lots already, I just can't tell exactly on what... cya-------->mIkE

quoted 4 lines Check out > Check out http://www.native-instruments.com/upload/msg00089.html > , it's a Korg MS-20 emulator plug-in for Generator, made by Roman > Belavkin AKA Solar X. >

The new plug-in standard 2.0 for Cubase VST is going to allow plugins to receive MIDi onformation. Be prepared for an explosion of softsynths, samplers, and effects to hopefully be coupled by manufacturers producing huge midi controller boards with as many knobs sliders and buttons as possible. My setup right now is a pentiumII-400Mhz running win98 with two monitors (soon to be three) a MIDI bitstream controller (40knobs, 8 buttons, etc.) used to control ReBirth through Cubase VST, Generator, VAZ modular, and a few external modules. Software will never eliminate dedicated equipment purely for the reason that we like the hands on interaction of devices. It will be very important to have excellent controllers for the future. cheers, Danjel

quoted 11 lines The new plug-in standard 2.0 for Cubase VST is going to allow plugins to

>The new plug-in standard 2.0 for Cubase VST is going to allow plugins to >receive MIDi onformation. Be prepared for an explosion of softsynths, >samplers, and effects to hopefully be coupled by manufacturers producing >huge midi controller boards with as many knobs sliders and buttons as >possible. My setup right now is a pentiumII-400Mhz running win98 with >two monitors (soon to be three) a MIDI bitstream controller (40knobs, 8 >buttons, etc.) used to control ReBirth through Cubase VST, Generator, >VAZ modular, and a few external modules. Software will never eliminate >dedicated equipment purely for the reason that we like the hands on >interaction of devices. It will be very important to have excellent >controllers for the future.

Building Blocks is a pretty interesting piece of software as well, it's the same idea except it deal exclusively with MIDI messages...you can program it to make some pretty interesting things happen as well, again, very CPU intensive...you can find it at: http://midiworld.com/AuReality/software/ cya------->mIkE