sr388

These things need to be kept 100 percent clean because the fader sliders have huge gaps which will get nasty really fast if you're gigging.

I love every sound I get from this but if you aren't trying to plug it in via USB and use the file manager and vst version to change things like the bend range you're going to find yourself wondering how to count 24 vs 25 while hoping you remembered the right button combo. The Sub 37 fixes a lot of this but I feel like I'm seeing a lot of these below Lil Phatty Stage prices despite it being a more competent synth. Not great at farty Moog tones because the whole Multidrive/Resonance interaction is all MS20 style roughness or TB303 bite. It's bright rather than warm and it knocks but you won't get classic Minimoog Funk basses out of it in the same variety as a Voyager because it's a different beast. You'll get similar tones, but once pushed they howl.

This little synth does a lot. They put so much flex into the range of each control, as self resonance can be a huge part of making sounds with this. No patch memory in any format (a tiny flip-up panel with a single reproduction of all the tiny levers even tinier would be hard to do) but the ability to quickly dial in what you want is really the point. I wish the looper had a mode without tempo controls that just hard-AB loops because that tempo lever is indicative of nothing. Giving us some markers of what the lines represent would have been really cool, but overall the ability to make such a range of tones using AA batteries and not even cluttering a backpack too significantly makes the minor complaints pretty minor.