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Now that I finally have one in my rack, I understand how it earned the nickname "Juno Killer" on some websites. Editing and feature-wise, it's not all that much better than a Juno - you have your VCO's (4 Waveforms: Saw, Triangle, Square and Combination) w/PW and PWM, 6 voices in Poly, Dual or Unison modes, Pitch Envelope, Resonant Low-Pass Filter w/Envelope, High-Pass Filter, VCA/ADSR, LFO w/ 5 Waveforms (+/- Sawtooth, Triangle, Square, Random) which goes to VCO/VCF/VCA (one at the exclusion of the other two, or none at all)...
Soundwise, however, this stomps all over a Juno (at least to my humble ears). Warm, fat, etc... a lot closer to a Jupiter in that regard. Within 5 minutes of booting this unit up and doing a bit of editing, I had a nice PWM/Square wave thing going w/mild resonance on the filter and a random LFO modulating cut-off... my roommate walked in and said "sounds like something off a Pete Namlook record"... right then and there I knew that good things were in store for me with this synth. Only gets a less than perfect rating for two reasons:
a) the VCO's don't go down to the 32' octave (so no deeeeeeep bass sounds... but hey, it still goes pretty low)
b) you can't tweak more than one parameter at a time (unless you choose the option to assign PitchBend to filter cut-off - then you can use that and the data-entry slider to, say, modulate cut-off and res. simultaneously - assuming you don't need hands to play the notes).
But hey, for what you can steal these for, it's a nice addition to a varied synth rig. I wouldn't make it your only analog synth, but it will certainly compliment other ones nicely.
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