So by default you'd be better with one of the Chinese models if you're American.

Anukari used the GPU but eventually abandoned it for the CPU. They have some good and informative blog posts about it.

Would be happy to see an actual, real study to prove that humans can notice, but to my knowledge none exist that confirm they can. Not even any on teenagers or younger (the only group that can even hear close up 20khz).

There's some ways to do band-limited distortion but...they aren't nearly as widespread, easy, or universal as band-limited oscillators.

Ring modulation is funny though because you'd ideally want the sidebands to modulate down by default rather than filter them out, that's why you're using it.

* Some people are still making this mistake, despite information on the (many) ways to do it the right way being widely and freely available!

Oversampling gives you headroom for aliases for the rest of the synth that is more vulnerable to it.

Because they sold them. They put it out in the world. If they just made it and then immediately destroyed it, wonderful! But they didn't.

And, also, their creators are not a monolith. They were worked on by hundreds of hands. The production company shouldn't get to unilaterally make that decision.

> Should be compel musicians to record every live performance and make those available to people who couldn’t make it to the show too?

This is this and that is that.