> Any sound card nower days relies on software synthesizing, a.k.a MS MIDI, and since > most people have laptops with no natural synth card, well, you get the point. I can't > blame manufacturers, midi fell out of fasion years ago
Softsynths as a tech generally sound fantastic nowadays. Professional synthesizers since the late 90s just have fast CPUs/DSPs running softsynth algorithms rather than dedicated hardware, and typically 4+ GB of samples (we're talking individual samples for every key on a piano recorded at at least 3 different key pressures, among other things). MS would be burned at the Internet stake if they shipped Windows on one DVD for the OS and one+ for the softsynth, so they ship much smaller, crappier samples
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