I don't imagine so, really. It has its own slightly different spin on wavetable scanning, a fairly unremarkable early digital filter, and a really good mutli-effects processor. Sure, its Transwaves have a particular sound, owing to the spectral content of the waveforms Ensoniq chose to put into them and Ensoniq's particular scheme for shifting between them (same can be said of a PPG or a Virus TI or whatever). I expect much of the remainder of the Fizmo's character probably comes from the sound of its effects.zerocrossing wrote: Am I missing anything? Am I oversimplifying things?
I guess it really comes down to whether you're so taken by that particular shade of green (or blue or purple or whatever) that you want to pay top dollar to add it to your palette. It sounds nice to me in some of the demos, but not necessarily nicer than any of a number of wavetable sweeping sounds I've gotten out of other wavetable scanning synths like Zebra. At current Fizmo prices, and with all the other things one can use now to create shifting wave sweeps, it wouldn't be high on my gear buying priority list.