I sit somewhere in the middle. I've had mine a while now and I guess I've formed a balanced opinion.

Build quality, despite all the pressed sheet metal, is OK. No more. the buttons are plasticy and lack real depth of travel to reassure you that you have hit them. This is a bit of a factor given the necessity of changing pages often to acess features.

The supplied sounds do not give any real idea of what this thing can do. It is a good all round VA. I've got new age pads and leads out of it as well as screaming digital noise. It does take a while to get into the somewhat quirky way things are organised, but the effort is rewarded with a suprisingly flexible little synth for those who get past the obvious.

At the price these things are going for, it's a sound investement.

Pity the rackmount kit is so expensive - if you can find one. But it doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure out how to make your own.

The promised monosynth upgrade will never come. Pity. This would have made it a total killer lead synth. But waht there is, is enough to do a lot of the basic bread nad butter synthy things.

Cost in a cheap multi-FX box. It really comes alive with a bit of space around the sounds from reverb and chorus. This is not a criticism as such; remember, this is what synths REALLY sound like, before they all had built in FX to jazz up the sound.