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Electrical instruments come with their own indiosynchrocies, giving 
them their own unique sound.Think in terms of chaos theory-the small 
little differences combine to make some big differnces in sound.

Electric pianos actually have hammers that hit reeds. Each Fender 
Rhodes has its own sound, plus the player and the player's technique 
greatly expands the timbral possibilities. Add to this the difference 
that analog circuitry adds-tubes, pickups etc and you'll see that 
it's impossible for any two electric pianos to sound exactly alike. 
There will be a subtle difference between all of them

The same with organs. There's so many parts turning and reverberating 
and preamping that no two could possibly sound alike.

Every preset # 45 will sound exactly the same-well a little different 
depending on your playback system but still close. With a VA synth 
this isn't as much of an issue because there's all these knobs so 
while you play you twiddle the knobs and instantly have your own 
individual expressive instrument-no longer a preset.Then when you add 
the matrix modulation, your playing style can greatly change the 
sound of the preset-adding some subtle or not-so-subtle variation.

I often wished that some instrument designer would add some random 
elements to their synthesizer so that everyone's keyboards would 
sound subtly different. This is probably an utterly insane idea.

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