Hello. In private discussion on the MIDI-controller matters, we looked at a digitally controlled analog synth. That reminded me about an idea to use a digitally controlled analog synth as an external "plug-in" in soft synth. The "plug-in" would be connected to computer with audio A/D converters (and perhaps with audio D/A converters if the analog part is an effect device). The motivations to use analog plug-in could be: -Generating analog waveforms would be faster -Parallel processing The softsynth part could be used for extra processing: amplitude envelopes, additional filters, chorus, etc. I'm not aware of any system which combines the analog synths to computers this way. Therefore this idea could be now patent free. Juhana
