It’s a shame you never hit it off with the Blofeld, a truly massive sound IMHO, that pretty much ticks all the boxes ( with the SL)
You were obviously in love with it a while ago though. Just checked out @finalform’s 2nd recommendation on Youtube and scrolled down the comments and…
Sorry dude, i’m a private Dick working for the Blofeld Appreciation & Lifelong Love Society (BALLS to you) (( that’s the five letter abbreviation, not balls to YOU.))
Damn those mushrooms!!
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damn, you got me … 
Yeah, you are totally right. I once was in love with this Synth. Yeez, thats long ago it was at a time where i just started working with hardware and was used to the sounds of a V-Station or a Vanguard or something. Compared to those the Blofeld was a huge step forward and back at that time it was the only Hardware Poly which was actually affordable.
Then - a friend of mine bought his first Virus TI and gave me the chance to play around with it for a week in our improvised Studio. And all the sudden i noticed how cheap the Blofeld sounded compared to the Virus. From then on i knew that the Blofeld is only the beginning and that there is so much more out there which is a lot better.
And in the more recent years, with all the new analog stuff and with the Analog Four - which was my first analog Synth btw - i would never go back. I bought a black Blo round about 4 years ago to partner it with my Analog Four. But it couldnt catch up and i quickly came to the point where the sound was - yet again - not as warm as i wanted it to be. And trust me, i messed around a lot on the Blofeld. Disappointed - again - i sold it - again.
So yeah. I was in love with this Synth - until i heard other Hardware Synths and noticed how much fatter and how much warmer they sounded. A point of no return was reached 
Im really impressed that you found this! I cant remember that i actually posted something there
I fear not for £800, if it shall be new gear 
I would suggest to check this out …
That would technically fit the bill … not in one single instrument, but …
Now it comes down, how “warm” the final sound should be. Waldorff sound is IMO, particularly, if wavetable based sounds ar concerned, HI-FI (not to be mixed up with “digital”, but very clean). An external analog summing, or a pre-amp, or a filter, or using gear like the Analog Heat could create analog warmth. But this would be extra cost.
Or for £900 (less if you hunt around) you can get an FA06, which is a great keyboard synth, a sequencer, a sampler, a vocoder and has great FX (of which 21 different FX can be used at the same time).
I owned at the same time a Blofeld and Virus TI and kept the Blofeld. The Virus had better effects, for sure, but the Blofeld sounded much better to my ears.
OT is a good choice for the sampler + sequencer part. Very powerful…
But you might want to wait a month for the new Digitakt, that covers a lot of OT territory, is cheaper, and might be an easier path for discovering Elektron workflow !!
Cheers again guys. Out of interest do any of you mix hardware and software like Omnisphere to create tracks?
404 is a good shout actually.
Yeah, they’re good little units, the only reason I didn’t buy one is there’s no simple way to play a sample chromatically.
I personally couldn’t be happier with an OT and a nord rack 2x, but that would be over budget, maybe OT + feed it from soft synths or iPad ?
For a cheap keyboard that controls the OT perfectly, the TRITON 25 is great, useful sounds and 8 assignable faders / buttons etc is perfect for the OT, so you get a sound source and controller ! I paid £70 second hand for mine !
Almost every time … I have got plenty of plug-in synths from various developers and if I know that one of them is just providing the sounds I am after … I use them together with audio recordings of my hardware.
Great info here. I am going to pull the plug on a keyed Blofeld and a 404 for now. Seems to cover most of the bases. Obviously nothing is perfect but close is good too.
Thanks again guys.
Iirc 404 doesn’t live sample, it’s either rec or play.
Oh man of course. Hardware rules but if you aren’t using any VST’s in this day and age you really are missing out on some of the best synths available, hard or soft. Arguably soft synths sound even better than hardware nowadays, but at the end of the day there ain’t nothing like feeling and stroking your own knob
