Airlane1979
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As an amateur synthesist, I'm struck by the lack of digital audio paths being used in modern synths and mixers. Yamaha seems to be an outlier in providing USB audio outputs on its synths, but none provides separate digital audio outputs such as S/PDIF or whatever the current equivalent is. Most low-cost mixers are completely analogue. This seems odd to me. Surely using digital audio paths would lead to higher quality with lower noise? There must be a good reason for this.