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I have over 60 other synths. I waited a considerable amount of time to buy this board because of some of the early, and I emphasize early, problemmatic feedback on some forums. I bought mine from a major dealer for $2000; you can find them a bit less from other users, but I've got solid guarantees. On a board like this who you buy from is important. In my opinion the price will only appreciate in the future as nothing comparable is likely to appear anywhere.
At this point I find the OS to be solid, as is the construction, and everything works as it is supposed to. The manual is clear and well written.
As for the instrument itself it is a work of art as well as a technical marvel. The sonic possibilities are awesome, and there is virtually unlimited modulation clearly layed out with easy control of everything. Others have tried to describe what it sounds like; I'm not going to bother because I'm not interested in a synth that sounds like something else, but that has a unique voice and sonic palette of its own. This one has it and more.
As more and more investment goes into virtual instruments you are unlikely to see anything like this again. If you want a device that has nearly unlimited analog synthesis possibilites this is the one; the one and only. Consider old analogs and what a dozen years of technical improvements could add up to and you have the Andromeda.
As with most synths these days the presets don't do it justice, but the only synths that presets really matter on are romplers and this baby is built for programming and tweaking. However, unlike many synths where you can just play with knobs and get some nice sounds, with this one you have to know what is going on to realize its potential. It requires some investment of time, but if you've invested this kind of money you know that.
Note that all recent reviews are nearly 100% on this; the only bad reviews are earlier from people who don't own one so the average is skewed lower than it should be.
It is a synthesist's dream in terms of sounds and possibilities; if your idea of making music consists of loops and Reason it probably isn't for you, but in all likelihood is the basis for a lot of original material that went into those "loops."
If you want something that will give you your own sound and won't sound like everything else out there this is the dream machine. The more original and creative you are the more this device will serve you. It is the perfect board for realizing new sounds and it would take years to exhaust its possibilities. In years to come it will be a sought-after classic as nothing else can deliver what it can.
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