Talk about virtual analog! Basically RedSound came up with one of the most stripped down, hardcore VA synths of all time-YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM THIS SYNTH! You cannot "wing it" with this thing. You get 8 voices and 5 part multi-timbrality. So basically, you would have paid , like a couple grand for this thing around 1986 or so, but about a hundred bucks in 2003! Paid 129 bucks for it a few years back (still the ONLY synth I have ever bought brand new) Its a pain to program multi channel patches but you could just stack and stack until you trigger all 8 parts every time you press a key, and that aint bad. Did I mention EVERY knob , button and joystick sends midi? This means 2 things 1) You can use it as an awesome knob box controller for any vst with a learn function 2) If your sequencer is pure shite (GEM Equinox, anyone?) you will crash it! I know, I even choked up cubase sx! outputs a ton of midi info-constantly. A lot of folks say it sounds cold/digital, but its all in how you program it. A great live tool and quite versatile in the studio as well. There is some convoluted way to process audio through the filter and good luck w/figuring that out, cause I haven't and midi spec is good. There are also four outputs , if you pan your sounds l/r. Theres a sad little chorus effect but mostly this is a really "pure" sounding synththat you can/should use external effects with.
