MicroFreak : A best of this scope, really, for this price?

First of all let me say I am dealing with synths for more than 30 years.

I am professional music producer and audio engineer, and bulk of my work was always directed towards music synthesis, be it music composing, sound design or just pure love for the machine.

This synth is many types of synthesis packed into one. With 2.0 firmware update, even more features are offered, such as additional oscillator and scale mode. This synth might be too much for a beginner but only because of so many features, but they would witness first hand all classic synthesis they have been reading or being thought about. So entry level can and will enjoy this synth.

Features I love - versatility, cycling envelope, matrix, arp and seq, and so many great things under a hub of this little beast.

Filter is extremely good piece of analog gear and its a shame external devices cannot be connected to use it.

Front panel misses arp gate, it is back in the utility menu, but that is just me asking for too much. Just like connectivity - this thing does everything it is supposed to do.

Great and fun feature, spice and dice is there.

Keyboard is pressure sensitive, and i love all additional settings you can assign.

Think about any, literally any synth with so many options that actually has analog filter!

And to top it all, this esoteric finish/design is making me happy to have this device purely just to look at it.