Diametro, I am not going to defend my credibility or brag about my gear or experience, just will say that I’ve been doing it for a good while. I am 36, playing piano starting when I was 10, and keys since 1995, and own several synth and workstations. I got your point about “making own sounds”. When I had my first keyboard, Yamaha QS 300, I used to mix elements in to voices (patches) and making performances out of it. I’ve been working with probably every possible manufacturer’s analog synth, such as Novation, Waldorf, Clavia, Access and so on. V-Synth has 2 elements to choose from and bunch of filters/envelopes. I got that. It is very similar to JP 800, that also had 2 elements, lots of knobs, making great controller I still use for my Triton. But let me tell you something:L I work very hard for my money. I have a day job and getting paid hourly. So if I concert how much I spent on V-Synth in to how many hours I had to work to save for it, it puts a lot of expectations on a machine. Don’t mean me wrong. It sounds great. But it just blew my yearly savings, so I kind of like to be able to enjoy it. You saying V-Synth have limited amount of sample RAM- don’t say it as it is a good thing. If Roland charges $3000 for it, they better put some RAM in to it, and if they can’t- they better hire good programmers team and program something to sell. Because if I have to program it all myself- I can do it on my old Roland JP8000 or Virus. Just because I can program it does not mean- I want to do it. Don’t we all enjoyed the Connect project for Fantom? It made the difference. Now at least Fantom feels like inspiring product. Would you not be happy if they invest some resources to program V-Synth for you as well? You know- I turn on EMU Audity- it’s 1998 sound module. It has 6 Mb of sample RAM. And they made 5x127 banks of sounds. And it is not some “Rodes pan right, rodes pan left” sounds- they are full never repeated useful leads, pads, FXs and so on. So I appreciate hardware, but with out good programming the proce is not justified. And this conversation is not even about the money. It is about what you getting for your money. If Roland hire me, for a reasonable compensation I can program that thing the way they never imaging. And how much I would charge for it? Well- it depends how good they want it to be, but for $1000 I can do pretty good job. So why in a world they would not spend some money and have some meaningful material to offer along with hardware?
