I found an interesting story here ; I’ll quote just one part of the story – see below.
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Here’s one more piece of this overall arc which I feel is pertinent. I had purchased Gig Performer a few years back, but it was at the same time I was terribly busy. I didn’t really dive in. In recent months however, I began opening it up, as a way to get back to playing piano, without opening the DAW. It just seemed more direct, and it is. Soon though, with 25 years worth of accumulated VI’s and VST’s available inside Gig Performer, I started rediscovering things I never dove into enough before. Top of that list is the Arturia Collection and mainly, the Jup-8 and Eternity Delay. Before long I was patching with Gig Performers modular interface, routing things in all sorts of relatively complicated ways. Ways which would be nearly impossible in hardware, at least without buying even more of it. Some of these setups, just like picking a fave piano and routing delay and reverb, but also filtering on the delay, and overdrive, and delay to the reverb, but also reverb to the delay, etc. I’m also able to readily assign midi CC’s to a desk-full of hardware controllers, playing fun little improv jams of reflective synth and piano stuff. It’s incredibly fun and I feel truly connected in the moments I doing that stuff. Then I look over my shoulder at all the hardware sitting there, and again think something to the effect of “What have I done?”. How much time and money have I wasted?