Have to agree. I'm right now saving up the change to buy this piece of kit. I'll spend a few days at the store on the days near the purchase just to make sure, but so far I'm amazed.

I decided to try comparing it to the Roland JP-8080 (I think that's the one). Although there's more polyphony on it, and a couple different features not present on the MS2000, I still think I like the MS better.

For starters, the filter is Korg's best filter since they went digital. ITS AMAZING. That filter is enough to make me drool. You've got enough control with the 4 types of filters on offer, with I believe 8,12, and 24db response (maybe different?).

They also included their Vocoder as part of the package... now, normally this would mean that you just had a vocoder. But with the virtual patching and the 2 audio ins, you've got the ability to vocode more than just voice to sine/saw/pulse wave. You can vocode drums through a synth patch... lots of posibilities.

The biggest drawback I've noticed, without it really being too big a drawback is the maximum 128 memory slots. That includes the factory presets.

Either way, if you're looking for VERY electronic sounds, I love this thing.




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Seth