It's an interesting thing to play around with where the technology is available. Neither good nor bad in itself. People who insist that it's "the future" are lacking in imagination (as Treewind pointed out, the kind of thing that people like Jim Moray are doing at the moment is pretty much the same as we were doing a quarter of a century ago, except that we had to make do with analogue technology and all that attendant line hiss) but it's an option, so why not use it? Don't rely on it too much, though. When there's a power cut, you'll have to fall back on the old-fashioned thing with strings on and whatever singing voice you can manage without digital help.