Particularly nice is the sound input as one of the oscillators. Some very tricky stuff can be done there.

One of the downsides is the lack of battery power. The weight of this thing would make it an ideal portable composing toy.

Sound quality is not the best unit, but very acceptable with a little EQ and the use of the seperate (albeit mono) outs for each voice. The sequencer is a joy to use.

As a final testament, I got one last night used after deliberating for weeks over it. I got it home and turned it on and was blown away by the internal patterns. I ended up playing with it all night and now I'm suffering at work for it. I can't wait to get home again.

This is for the money the best 2 chanel monophonic synth available today, sure bassstation's are cool but they have no sequencer, sure other cheap mono's sound good and are reasonably priced too, but most if not all of them have no sequencer, the korg has 2 channels of monophonic sequencing. It sounds good, I honestly do prefer the bass of my mc-202, and the sonic weirdness of my Prophecy, but honestly I use the EA more often than I use my juno's or bass station, heck it gets more use simply because it's so darn easy to use, it's a breeze and is just great as a sketch pad for quick ideas. Also unlike the roland groove junk it has plenty of user memory available unlike the paltry 10-30k notes the MC-303 holds, which makes it ideal for just having around for quickly transposing your idea's into actual sounds. Also midi freaks, it does transmit knob movements over midi, and it works very well too, ignore the statements made to the contrary. Also as mentioned previously the timing is dead on, no groovebox will ever be as on time as this, my MC303 and 505 both have sort of wacked timing as they seem to drift on timing and other instruments hooked via midi tend to drag as well, had to ditch those as sequencers and bought a MC-50 which has infinitely better timing anyway, the timing on the EA is just as good as my MC-50 as they seem to be dead on.

All of this mindless hype has no basis in music, it's like reading a zine for record reviews, just because some says it's cool/sucks doesn't mean that you have to think exactly as they do, perhaps doing some thinking of your own would be in order.

Hey if you're naive enough to believe the mindless crap their spewing then go right ahead, me on the other hand I'll be enjoying an inexpensive good quality lead/bass line machine and making music while you're still reading the manual on some other comprable machine.

This machines quite good at was it does, so just deal with it kido's

This is a great little machine capeable of some extremely professional sounds if you have any x0x programeable skills at all. Super simplistic interface, great filters (all knob movements transmitted, I mean this is a creative dream)....and Midi timing that is spot on. How in the hell can you know a synth of any sort in ten days, it simply isn't possible.

Great machine, and that's from someone who knows what their talking about.