That's cool. But honest question: do you think you could actually pick out what instruments are real and sampled in every case? I'd like to think I could, but I doubt it. Acoustic, classical, traditional jazz music aside, although some of those lines are becoming blurred too. Basically, it wouldn't shock me to find out that a killer album from the last 5 yrs or so was done completely with modeling or sampling, and personally as a listener - I wouldn't care as long as the song moved me. It's only afterwards that the engineering or production side of that would interest me. As you know, sampled drums have been used for decades. Snares, kicks, hats, etc. for replacement and/or reinforcement. I don't think that's too far removed from someone playing a digital kit (live in a studio) with sampled sounds. Most important things are the song, performance, engineering and production know how. With modern modeling and software technology, engineering a wonderful tone is much more accessible -- "real" or not.