5 of the Best Hardware to Software Synth Ports

Why bother with physical keys when you can get the same synthesizer inside your DAW? Go native with the best hardware to software synth ports.

With digital synthesizers becoming increasingly more complex and chip-reliant, and computer power always increasing, we’ve reached a point where we can comfortably run synthesizers inside our DAWs as plugins. I’m not talking about emulations (although those are getting better all the time). I mean one-to-one ports from the hardware to the software, so completely identical that you can swap presets between them. What a world.

What’s more, manufacturers are starting to release these ports with the original synth still in the shops. You’d think this would cannibalize sales, but perhaps it’s a case of more bites of the cherry: there are enough customers to warrant two versions – and some may end up buying both!

While Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field VST may not be real (sorry about that!), these five are very real and very much worth your money, even if you already have the hardware.

Here are five of the best hardware to software synth ports...

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