>I don't think I buy that argument (that there aren't enough people interested in it). >I don't think all that would exist without some demand.

What we old synth nerds need to understand is that there are always new synth nerds leaving the worlds music schools, quite often with a fat wad of disposable income/parents cash, and they want to build their own little studios to make the next mega-hit.

This is the driving force behind Behringer and all the re-issuing goings-on and such.

But the synth world is a fashion scene. Devices and techniques and engines go in and out of fashion.

The recent Gearmulator releases have lit a serious fire under the DSP-synth world precisely because folks really want these old synths, and I suppose its quite fun to take the real DSP firmware and emulate them:

https://github.com/dsp56300/gearmulator

(Disclaimer: have worked professionally in the synth world for decades, I have my biases and also new releases on the horizon ..)