I think it has more to do with the sheer range of devices they want to support — without the input control, you would have to have a Eurorack signal turned basically all the way down and a guitar signal turned all the way up. As @benway pointed out, this lets you get everything levelled off so that the main volume knobs all behave the same.
I was initially hopeful that there would be some characterful overdrive, but I haven’t seen any mention of it yet. I’m curious how the master filter reacts to a hot signal!
With intellijel I don’t doubt that it’s going to deliver on sonics, but looking forward to hearing more.
More hyped for this than any other piece of gear for a long, long time. Had been considering a Big Six or a Playdifferently Model 1 / 1.4 for a long time but hard to justify in terms of price and size to varying degrees. And probably too much for what I need.
But this seems perfect for dubs and giving a new lease of life to stuff like my MPC and S2400, bring pedals in a lot more as well. I feel like it’s really going to tie the room together. Expected it’d be about twice the price when I saw it first and even at that I’d still be interested, but for where it’s pitched I’m definitely gonna grab one.