The love and passion for music/sound creation really shines through in everything this unit offers.
I used synths since mid 80's and wanted to experiment with new ways of routing stuff, since I started doing video and kind of do like foley stuff too for that.
The ease of moving a cable around in patch bay is way more fun than diving into menues of most synths. Just grab an output, and test various inputs and tweak a bit - is one way to go.
Pro
Versatility with wide variety of oscillator waveforms and on top of that audio input to use in the same fashion as an oscillator. Plan to use guitar, hammond and go wild on drawbars and other synths too.
Really nice tuning abilites built in, to tune to perfect fifth of anything - each oscillator. Auto-tuned at startup - but over time really easy to tune up again.
Wide variety of useful modules to route as you please on this patch bay.
Manual is great and filled with tips as well.
Pricepoint - value is astounding.
Con
The amount of things to look up, install and fiddle with to update firmware. And zipfile with updater should have pdf updates notes included, but was a separate popup on site with release notes. Error messages not that informative "check you have the right drivers installed". It just said drivers were installed successfully - and yet there were other drivers needed too.
Since unit was shipped with v1 firmware it had to be updated to v2 - so stuff in manual were there. this will pass with time, I guess, as production has v2 available. But mine shipped now had v1.