I am personnaly trying to experiment the virtual way with vArranger.
I tried the Roland HyperCanvas VST sound module, and the sounds are very OK.
I also sampled some hardware drum kits, esspecially oriental percussions, and try to assign some channels of the styles to the virtual route.
From now, I can say that it's amazing.
I will post video explanations of that soon.
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Regards,
Dan
http://www.varranger.fr