Pretty much, hardware synthesis is lame compared to modern software, it's a fact, otherwise Steve Duda would be trying to sell me a box rn. I still think though that hardware racks in the effects department are much better. I believe it with some compressors and EQ racks.
Flashbulb is way too ambient for me, but I like his content it's entertaining and brainy at times. DnB kind of fell off at a certain point and only really started making a comeback in the past 5 years or so, really with the latest Chase & Status releases putting it more and more into the mainstream.
The hardware market is a complete scam. I can't see how this would outperform Renoise + Vital Synth/Surge Xt which is $76 USD, full VST support, and this fucking little goofy box being, ehem almost $900!!!! Also just with Amigo sampler, TAL-Drums and Sampler and others like Speedrum 2 and Visco being a thing, you could spend less and have WAY more imo. I'm still in the camp that Jeskola Buzz can be just Renoise for poor people. So why would I by this hardware?? It's silly especially if you already have a MIDI controller. I don't think it's bad hardware, just the people at Polyend are greedy bastards.
There is a collective ignorance and amnesia that software and computers have exceeded what they do. I was even looking at a current Korg wavetable synthesizer and it sounds like any other cheesy generic analog synth. They were touting it as the hardware version of Serum and that's fucking laughable in my opinion. I think Serum is slightly more capable than Vital (juries out imo) and even then the flagship modern wt synth sounds like booty compared to Vital.
Big things coming, I'm releasing an EP on Halloween called Nocturne and it's gonna hit your speakers hard plus a new Charlie Root is in the works, stay tuned!
@dcc I use F5 sir, and what it seem like if I refresh or log out and back in I can't type anything for the first couple of minutes it gives me an error that it can't connect to the server. I also got too many requests errors several times too.