I have just learned how much the Hardware sytnths would cost me . The Triton Extreme 61 would cost me $2450 Canadian , the Motif ES 6 $2560 Canadian and the Roland Fantom 6 $2715 Canadian .

Now that kind of money would buy a great keyboard controller for a soft synth as well as tons of Samples software and of coarse a better soundcard for my PC .

Are the applications mentioned such as FL Studio really as comprehensive as those Hardware synths in all they can do or does one require additional software for other tasks ? It's not that getting additional software would be too expensive but all of that piecing together would kind of turn me off honestly.