Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
The Roland SH 201 is pretty much JP-8080 with a few extras. It'll deffinetly sound better than vsti's but dont be fooled into thinking its analogue.
A VA is soft synth in a box, they sound better because their processors are dedicated to the synth, rather than your pc running soft synths that can only use a small % of your CPU
With the advent of super-fast processors and dedicated DSP chips (e.g. Powercore, UAD-1) this really isn't the case anymore.