Crave : excellent first synth

I bought the Crave as my first ever hardware synth. I had no previous experience using an analog synthesizer and I think the Crave is an excellent place to get started. For beginners like me, I definitely recommend watching a youtube tutorial or two to understand what all the knobs are for and to get introduced to modular synthesis.

The sonic range you can get from this small machine is near endless, especially with the added patchbay. I have coupled the Crave with my tc electronic Echobrain which also works together beautifully and expands the options even further

Build quality seems very solid so far, the knobs have a nice weight to them.

The sequencer is also a nice feature, pretty straight forward to program. My main annoyance is that saving and recalling patterns (you can save up to 64 patterns) from the pattern bank is not the easiest. Apart from that I don't have any complaints, overall it's a very well-built and a very fun instrument at a fair price.