Modular V3

User Interface: Visually nice, but to hard to see values and too hard to use controls. All in all not user friendly. Optimum resolution seems to be 1152x864. Run in 1024x768, controls have the right size (on a 19" screen), but you cannot see all. Run at res. 1280x1024, and controls starts to get too hard to see/use. I like to run Cubase at 1600x1200, but at that res. you cannot work with the MMV interface.

Sound: Top quality, in every respect. Clean oscs. Sharp and responsive filters. Some of the best I have heard.

Features: A lot of sonic possibilities in the combination of modules. However, the preset management is extremely annoying. Also, there should be keyboard shortcuts to frequently used features.

Documentation: Big user manual, but IMO very badly written.

Presets: Too few (yes!) and definitely too little variation. Some collections really shines, though. A synth with this potential should come with presets that demonstrates its capabilities much more.

Customer Support: Have not needed it yet, but during delivery (with which there were some problems) Arturia was very responsive and helpful.

Value For Money: Will come in time, after a few updates probably. For now, the annoying GUI, the preset management and the instability really drags it down.

Stability: Seems to have the P4 denormalization problem. Sometimes gives extreme (ouch!!!) noises when switching between presets. Sometimes MMV's sound engine seems to crash on high CPU loads; only restart of Cubase will bring sound back. Stable most of the time, though.

Other: I realy hate the copy protection scheme (have to insert the original CD now and then). I have had it for 3 days now and already inserted it twice. Damn, that's annoying.