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Designed by Tim Orr. It came in a kit that could be assembled at home, in order to make it a synth that was more affordable.

Vintage Synth Explorer gives it 3 stars.

The extra switch next to the volume knob, amongst other things, allows you to use Osc 1 as a modulation source i.e to the VCF. It's great for alien buzzy noises.

'The bass on the second half of Queen Of All Everything is the 303 but sequenced from an Analog Systems TH-48.'

'The build quality is as good as the MS-20 and the cables are standard mini-jack cables that work just like any other patch cable. It's easy to dismiss the Legacy controller as a toy but it's probably the most useful instrument in my studio and the luxury of having 32-voice, polyphonic MS-20 with PWM and syncable LFOs far outweighs any advantage of having a 'real' one, even if you don't take into account the ridiculous difference in price. I wouldn't swap.'

He uses it for Live performances.

He uses it for his Live Act FXs.

He uses them besides his Yamahas, but he does his mixing in professional mixing studios.

'I use Nuendo, Reason, Ableton Live, Fruityloops (been a registered user since V1.0), Reaper - whatever suits the job at hand. Some stuff is better for certain tasks and I get bored easily.'

"They originally sent me a free copy when it first came out, in exchange for any technical feedback I could give them, so I dived in and really liked what I found. [...] I’m raving about it because I think it is the first genuinely innovative sequencer I’ve used since Ableton Live, thirteen years ago, and they seem genuinely interested in what their potential users think of their software. [...]

Tabbed projects, hybrid tracks, clips AND arrangement on the same screen, totally interconnectable and modular by design [and set to become more so, if their press is to be believed] and no fucking MAX MSP in sight! The arrange window ‘reads’ left to right, with the mixer controls on the left like EVERY other sequencer EVER [Ableton, wtf were you thinking?] and the plugin delay compensation works so well I completely forgot to think about it.

It would appear that Bitwig have been listening more attentively to Ableton Live’s user-base than Ableton have."

He uses it for Live Acts.