And if you don't want to spend the money, there's always the Waldorf Largo soft synth which is very similar to the blofeld. For the user interface and sound, it's hard to beat this little synth at the prices they're selling for. So, it has it's little faults, but what synth doesn't? They're all minor annoyances however. But I may eventually break down and get it, the keyboard version of the blofeld comes with the sampling enabled by default. I haven't gotten the sample pack yet (I'm a cheap bastard and don't want to pay $150 for something that I feel should have been released for free, imo). The effects do tend to suck, but for most people that shouldn't dissuade them from getting the blofeld. The bloefeld also sounds really good to me, I love the wavetables, along with the ability to change the drive curves. But as others have mentioned, the modulations are quite deep and I've still finding neat things to do with the modulation matrix. FANTOM can control software synthesizers directly from the touchscreen, drive modular and analog synthesizers from. For the most part they're minor and nothing that makes me want to stop using the synth, with the exception that sometimes it won't save your patch after you've worked on it for hours (so remember, save often). There are definitely bugs, and I do wish Waldorf would go ahead and fix some of them. The interface on the tabletop version I have is pretty awesome, and while it takes a few minutes to figure things out, once you get it, 'you get it.' I've had one for about a year and I quite enjoy it, especially at the price you can get them from novamusik. I'll just throw my 2 cents in real quick on the blofeld.

Waldorf blofeld synthesizer review