Yes indeed that could be argued, but in the Hartman instance you had the basic componentry of a PC packed inside a Keyboard shaped tin. The company even admited as much, decribing it as 'a highly specialized PC', but people very quickly worked out it was a PC in a cute looking box.droolmaster0 wrote: Couldn't it be argued that all digital synths could be realized on a computer? Although I haven't used the keyboard version, my understanding is that the interface is really quite nice. As for whether they were overpriced, that's another matter entirely. But (if you didn't have the compatibility issues that some users report) the combo of the vs and the nuke is quite amazing. I'm not going to worry about whether I paid too much. It's unique.
I'm sure plenty of people are going to have lots of fun with their Nukes. It will probably accrete a User group, who will work out how to get around the flaws in the system, and if you stick with yours you'll almost certainly end up with a latter day fizmo on your hands.
But however lovely the Fizmo might sound, it failed in the marketplace for the want of a $1.98 voltage controller. It's sad, but it's true - Ensoniq got a single component on the mobo wrong and the synth quite rightly died the death. It's the same with the Hartman - when it was released I remember writing in this forum - why isn't this the kind of development being done by audio soft developers instead of endless Moogalikes? Well the answer to that question is that it was being done by audio soft devs, only they put it in a flashy tin and tried to get $3000 dollars for it. Sad but inevitable.