First off, anybody know how to fix a problem with non-sounding notes? (It's not the keyboard - this works fine when used as a master keyboard - and different keys are dead on different patches.) The end of the keypad is dead too (common fault, it seems), but I'm fixing that.

Minor quirks apart, this is a fine synth. To those who say the DCOs sound thin, I say try a little detune and modulate DCO2! Of course, some people are too lazy or unimaginative to program their own sounds, in which case they should get a shiny new Triton and sound like all the other sheep.

IMHO, the strength of this synth lies in the 3 (count 'em) LFOs, which can put some fantastic dynamics into your patches. The DCOs can be modulated separately, while the filter does its own thing - brilliant.

Speaking of the filter, that's quite pokey too. The velocity-sensitive keyboard is something you don't find on a lot of analogue synths. And of course, the thing lights up like a christmas tree, which makes up for the parameter access control system. Nice and easy to see what you're doing when you're editing.

You can keep your JP-8s and Prophet-5s - the only other analogue polysynth I'd consider would be an OB-8, and that would have cost 10-20 times as much as the AX80!

If everything worked, the AX80 would have scored a 5. Even half-dead, I'll give it 3 and a half.

so yeah if you come across one for under 400.00 its a fine deal,and NOTHING new will even come close in that price range.

this synth may not have strings like a juno but it demolishes it in every other way

however, the oscillators are kept in tune with an intel chip.