Just where in the heck did this come from..? You see ANY reference to Florida beach music (whatever THAT is? )?

Sorry, Bill, but although I might play on a beach from time to time, it's got bugger all to do with WHAT I play, WHAT I play on, and HOW I play.

And, although it may constitute a portion of my income, at the same time I am doing recording work with national artists, local musicians, and just about anything that comes my way. I would also be fairly sure I have played, used and made a living off of VSTi's for MUCH longer than you, am WELL aware of the fact that you try ANY of today's modern VSTi's on a ten year old CPU, mother board or OS and it will grind it to a halt in a flash. Let's face it, if you have a ten year old computer running Vista, the only thing ten year old in there might be the case!

And sorry, old bean, but every Wersi demo I have heard using the onboard sounds makes me want to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl! While the VSTi's can make it sound closer to a T2, do without those and you start to sound like a cross between a ten year old arranger and the Blackpool Tower organ...

Come to think of it, the Wersi is the PERFECT arranger for beach music... If that is Blackpool Beach you are talking about. My Pontins and Butlins days are long over, and so is that sound. But if I chose to return to that beach music sound, rest assured I will consider a Wersi (after I win the lottery)...

Look at the specs for running today's high end VSTi's, yet alone any of the future modeling VSTi's (whose system requirements would choke a Cray!) and you realize that the ideal of an all VSTi arranger is still a LONG way away. Heck, most studios running on primarily VSTi sounds have to have multiple computers just to run a whole song like that. Hollywood film scorers have banks of them.

There's a LOT more to running VSTi's than a bit of B4 and Colossus (seen the list price for that one? )

I am not afraid of the future. I have been on the cutting edge of using computers for music since they first came out. I have been using VSTi's since the very day they started. I have probably more experience doing full virtual production than most on this forum, have a decent collection of them already, and the studio has more. Use them to their potential, and you can drain the living daylights out of any state of the art octo-core CPU out right now, yet alone some kludged-up retrofit of a ten year old arranger...

I am not afraid of the future, but I am WELL aware that it is not upon us yet... despite all the hype.

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 07-03-2008).]