Ah, I forgot to mention the 20 to 100 people-years it took to develop VAST.
John Loffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
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> Kurzweil's K2000 24 voice VAST architecture was an 80,000 gate ASIC
> providing the audio processing and a 68000 doing the MIDI/LFOs/Envelope
> low
> rate functions. The Spartan-3 can surpass that. But remember that user
> interface is key in a modular. A polyphonic DX7, Wavestation or Synergy
> doesn't make much sense in this format. Some of the synthesis techniques
> may apply though.
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