for the price they are going for these days- grabe one and CREATE ! The DW-8000/EX-8000 is realy one of my top 10 underrated synths. by the way, I do have the Yamaha TG-33/Total digital which I love for what it is, but it is not by far a DW-8000.

Ohwell, Nubey

Powered up: hit a key wow perfect smooth soft oberheim-esque string sound comes billowing from my monitors, impressed to say the least. Played with the 64 presets and listened to some great basses (mostly rock sounding but usable), and six tons of great organ presets as well most are good to great (almost reaslistic but analog sounding or fat). This to me seems like korg's answer to the Matrix 6/1000 or even say a Jupiter 6 which uses two dco's per voice with 2 vcf's well it's not jupiter fat but it is oberheim soft and expressive -- great cold sounding wide strings and organish pads, very very matrix like aside from the missing matrix modulator, the korg's not quite as flexible as say oberheim matrix but is darn close and has a unique sound and character which to me sounds wonderful.

PROS: Decent delay, chorus, polyphonic portamento, 6 stage envelopes (two vcf's!), two dco's per voice with 16 selectable waveforms (not all square, saw, sine etc, there are some decent piano and horn waveforms too), small size, ease of use (this is so easy no manual is necessary), good pads/strings/organs and do-able bass.

CONS: Osc's only selectable to 8' 12' 16' (could be a wider range), one parameter is editable at a time, ie. no tweaking resonance and cutoff simultaneously -- shame too. Self oscillation is kind of freaky sounding too, like a distorted sine wave -- truely weird.

All in all -- a very original underrated and highly useful synth module, the best of both worlds a hybrid-- 16 dco's with two real analog vca's and two vcf's a digital delay/chorus all in a steal for the price I paid $200, aside from an oberheim this is the next best thing and complements my matrix's perfectly. I couldn't be happier!

My 2 cents, -Nubey