hi

in this times of giga-large sample-based synths (like f.e. ultrafocus) - what's your opinion on these versus non-sample-based (imposcar...)?

I personally don't dig synths that take too much space (i know, cheap hds but anyway).

except for natural sounds (piano/rhodes...)


k

It depends very much on the sounds you preferably want to use.

I wouldn't trust a Grand Piano instrument, which comes with merely 8 or 16MB soundset.

And I wouldn't trust a VA synthesizer which comes with a set of static wavetables otherwise.

For electronic music one will prefer synths, which generate the sounds in realtime and wide range to modiify it in realtime (even on oscillator plain).

Common pop music often cannot live without good sample libraries on the other side. Some musicians even seem to use Samplers and Romplers exclusively.

You finally have to discover both worlds and cannot totally exclude one of them.

But I never would buy a bass "module" or a pad synthesizer purely based on sample sets. And I wouldn't buy a "Best of Absynth" or "Best of Moog" Sampling CD for the same reason.

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Who cares, as long as it has useful sounds. I have no need for ROMpler sounds but I don't care what the sound-source of any V/A is, as long as the result is useful.