I have mixed feelings about this one. The user interface is the best so far; the beforementioned one knob for each parameter pretty much sums it up. Truly inspiring. But there was something about the sound which just didn’t do it for me. Having fiddled with it for almost a year, I came to the conclusion that it didn’t do much that I couldn’t accomplish with my other gear. That, and the fact that I never recorded anything with it, lead me to trade it for a Roland JD-800. Time will tell if I will regret getting rid of it (Time has now told me I don’t).
As a side note, Obie and the Pulse contain similar sets of, well, synth circuitry (Obie’s being virtual, naturally), and as Obie has one slider or knob per relevant function, it was dead easy to set it up to control the Pulse. Never before, or after, has my Pulse been that easy to use. I’d almost go on record saying that this one was worth it’s price even if you never used it as anything else than a dedicated MIDI controller. Doing this, obviously, felt like a waste of potential, so I still got rid of it. Would be interesting to gut the thing, and install the Pulse into it somehow. That would be a killer synth!