Actually I just saw two software synths which seem to look quite good on paper .

1.Propellerhead Reason 3.0
2.Cakewalk Project 5

Those seem to be able to do everything I could think of doing . I think they cost a few hundred bucks but even with a midi keyboard controller and a better soundcard it would still come quite a bit cheaper than any of the three major hardware synths .

What's your experience with those two ? Do you know them ?

Yeah I'm sure the Motif ES sound terrific , the Triton Extreme seems to have the most preloaded sounds and the Roland Fantom X seems to have the largest expansion capabilities with all of those SRX boards and room for four of them .

[This message has been edited by Darksounds (edited 08-07-2005).]