


The ‘problem’ though – and this is such a first-world one that I’m almost tempted not to write it – is that they are so good, so relatively inexpensive to add to your collection and in many cases, so innovative – that I’ve simply got too many.

However, the fact that these developers have to work so hard has resulted in some cracking releases for all of us. There’s so much competition from the modular scene – from more ‘standard’ hardware keyboard synths and modules, from freeware and from the synths already bundled with your DAWs – that software-synth developers simply have to put the effort in, or else their wares will be lost, rather like tears in the rain.
