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There are few reasons: - they most of the time run embedded in a DAW - they are usually computationally intensive themselves - they are meant to be instanced as far as memory/CPU can go

ad to the third point: Music producers already require and use pretty powerful rigs: 32-128GB RAM is not uncommon, CPU as good as it gets. There's great benefit when you can run 100 instrument synthesizer instances parallel vs 14 instances - it's a difference between a differentiated orchestra and a rock band.