[satori99]

> The use of mathematics to produce sounds resembling real instruments quickly became obsolete once we could just go out and sample the real thing. Sampling is a boring, brute-force approach to sound synthesis, but it’s a relatively straightforward one, now we have the computing power and memory.

I guess this is true, but the next thing to come along that made me leave the DX7 at home was an Ensoniq EPS-16+.

https://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/eps-16

[ajxs]

On the subject of Ensoniq, here's a great article written about them and the huge impact they had on the music industry: https://reverb.com/news/history-of-ensoniq-samplers-mirage-e...

[TheAmazingRace]

Fun fact, one of the founders of Ensoniq, Bob Yannes, came up with the legendary SID chip found in the Commodore 64.

[nkozyra]

And to be fair, there's physical modeling, which in general comes much closer to simulating, well, physical instruments.

I think FM is inferior at this if only because harmonics/overtones have less variability.

[Foobar8568]

There is an obvious sounds to pianoteq which is basic the best place ano modeler out there. We are closed to the real thing but so far at the same time.