software synths you couldnt be without

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Atmosphere is ok but end of the day it just a rompler.

I don't get why people are biased against romplers. I mean, you can view synths as very limited romplers (any rompler worth it's salt can do the basic waveforms that a basic subtractive synth is capable of), with slightly better aliasing and maybe a trick like PWM, but that's not much more.

The "how you arrive at the result", via sample or synthesis, shouldn't really matter IMO...and yet, in people's minds synths are the sexy real thing, and romplers illegitimate fakers, regardless of the result. It's weird.