Frank,

I have been keenly following your posts, and have tried experimenting with software based synthesizers and samplers. I found that the laptop I had (an AMD 2200+ laptop with half a gig of RAM) was nowhere near adequate for playing more than a few voices. I have a new, faster laptop, and hope to give it a try sometimes soon, though most laptops have an issue with the speed of their hard drives - not fast enough for streameing samples. Either way, to do it right it is neither simple nor cheap, though once you have it all set up, it may be reliable. I recall you mentioning the fact that your system, while is of very high quality, is also expensive, due to primarily the cost of the software. Sure, software based solutions give one the flexibility to get very high quality of samples, but they come at a cost.

Anyways, the issue my post takes is with the silly arithmetics that YamahaAndy uses, rather than with the doability of softsynths.

Regards,
Alex