Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Well, there isn't any going back now, his machine is great.  I 
bought it as part of re-vamping my studio from fully computer to 
computer controlling hardware.  I love this thing.  I've mostly been 
using a freeware programme called BUZZ to make electronic music, 
which is buggy and sucks in some ways but some of the instruments 
and effects in BUZZ are really great.  I've owned a few analogues 
through the years, but BUZZ synths generally have some wierdness and 
extreme properties to them that most plain jane synths don't have.  
    I must say that the Evolver possesses some of the crazy 
wierdness I've come to like in synthesizer programming that you 
can't get with a lot of standard analogue synths (like junos, MKS-
70, even a MINIMOOG really (the MM is _NOT_ one of my fav synths for 
sure)...).  I really appreciate all the Fvcked up signal processing 
I can do with it as well as all the sounds it makes.  The RANGE of 
noises I can get out of this thing is just SICK.  Well worth the 
dough, even given my tight budget.  It's intuitive to use also, I 
have no complaints with the UI, it works and it works FAST (but then 
I learned synthesis several years ago on a Korg Poly-800, which has 
an up and a down button to adjust one parameter at a time)