I am one of the synth nerds that still haven’t got any of the Arturia products yet, but I’ve tested the demo versions of the Jupiter-8V, the Minimoog V and the Prophet V. They all well-sounding and convenient to to work with. Some of the knobs might be a little too small on the resolution I’m using (1600 x 1200 on a Dell 2007FP) and the Minimoog V on the other hand was designed with an awful lot of scrolling. Modular synthesis is nice though since you most often can do so much more than on a normal (sometimes dull and boring) subtractive synthesis synthesizer.

Luckily for me, I can now buy two Arturia products to the price of just one. Hooray! They have a fantastic offer that ends on the 31st of August, so if you have €199 to spare Arturia.com is the place to spend it. It gives me 1½ month to save up for it.

Personally, I’ll go for the Jupiter-8V and the Prophet V. They are really nice emulations of the old classics, and you cannot have enough of those - can you?