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I'm using Reality 1.56...
Reality is good, but it's not the dream machine some of these reviews imply. You need a way juicy CPU, and you'd better set the polyphony and CPU load pretty low if you don't want to start dropping voices. (Reality purports to go up to 128 voices - what a joke.) No latency? Maybe not when you're doing pads and strings, but try using this "sampler"/synthesizer for complex drum parts and you'll hear a perceptible lack of tightness. (Interestingly, if you're looking for a serious software sampler, Nemesys' Gigasampler doesn't suffer from this problem - plus Gigasampler and Gigastudio offer 20-bit output or better.) Like I said, Reality sounds good, it's definitely useful, and it offers a lot of advantages over hardware synths costing 5 times as much. But, sorry, Reality's latency, dropped voices, 16-bit output, and blue screens of death won't make synths like the Z1 obsolete. You need much more than Reality to make serious music.
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