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Dude no one has mentioned a second hand Virus.. That is a very good synth and had a lot of bang for the buck and sounds very different to the microkorg, also the Korg R3 has a different synth engine to the Microkorg, its a scaled down Radius.

Want some real analog why not borrow my poly 61 for a while?

Bout £250 - 400 for a Virus A or B..

The R3 has 2 timbres like the microkorg. But unlike the microkorg which is only able to layer both timbres into 1 tone, the R3 lets you assign the second timbre to any midi channel you want.

They are very different sounding synths. I tried remaking my fav micro tones on the R3 and the results were pooor and to bright like Koova is saying. Maybe the parameters do not match 1 to 1 and it would take a bit of messin round to make it sound more like a micro.

The R3 does have tons of effects (fine tweak-able), amp sims, and even an extra boosting feature that adds sub oscs, drive or pickup simulation either before or after the filter. You can modulate between the filters (and there is a comb filter too). 1 mod sequencer per timbre.

I use it mostly for crazy subsonic, mod sequenced patches. I should add that I have never been able to make it sound good playing out live. It sits kinda strange in the mix when I use it for anything other than piano tones-maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Poly and EX are nice for decent strings/pads, but not so nice for nasty bass sounds. The envelopes are pretty sloppy so you can't get a punchy sound out of them. With the moog slayer mod they can produce some crazy frequencies (especially combined with the "FM" mod) when the filter is self-oscillating, but that stuff's better for sound fx and atonal techno melodies/basslines.

The Novation Nova is six part multitimbral, and it's really straightforward to assign patches to different channels (unlike just for example a newer VA like a waldorf blofeld), has multimode filter and as some people says a really good vocoder (never tried that)...
Nice synth, real real fun when coupled with an rm1x or similar sequencer.
I cannot think of another virtual analog with the same features for the same price.

the nova does seem ridiculously cheap, considering the features

still trying to get some dopplerefekt style bass sounds without any success though

You're the first guy I've seen recommend the Plugiator.

I want to be excited about it. Sell me on it!

Thanks for the response, think I'll go for the ease of programming of the Korg for now and pick up a CZ at a later date.

I say yes!

Need a mixer with more channels. A guy offered me his old Studiomaster Serie 5 with 24 channels.
He asks for 450€ but i have the feeling it's a little bit much. Also i heard rumours that the Studiomasters are kinda noisy.
It seems that some people call them Noisemaster. Others say it's great. Somebody have experience with those boards?

yeah - that's a good price.  it's a cool processor, i had one until recently.  only got rid of it because it was a little deeper than my needs require.  the dp4+ has a vocoder that i understand is very cool.