i’m the same person from the other thread you posted in 
What are your favorite multitimbral synths? - #102 by fffiiissshhh
Dont plan on replacing it any time soon. Right now my priority is fast workflow (no menu = no menu diving!), sounds good over a wide sonic range (analog/warm sounding or digital/cold sounding) and in the 1k price range.
- If I would want deep sound design, I’d get a hydrasynth or similar, but i’d lose the fast workflow especially when trying to do VA .
- If I cared about it being a true analog, maybe a Take 5 or another Pro-whatever, but then I’d be limited on waveforms and tone.
- The only other option for me would be eg Digitone or Minifreak, but as mentioned in the other thread: I don’t love the digitone’s core sound and find it tolerable only bc I love Elektron UI and form factor. Havent tried the Minifreak. I also used to have a Novation Peak and disliked the harsh filter and much of the menu based workflow.
- If i had a 2k+ budget, this would open up too many more options (3rd Wave, etc)
Before giving yourself GAS for an A1 do familiarize yourself with the list of drawbacks. Many of them are weird. The single LFO isnt even assignable. The alarm clock screen is a joke, all patches are numbered and cant be named. (Their flagships all have dot matrix or OLED.) And you cant mix and match waveforms and noise and osc mod options, you get to choose one possible osc config per layer. There is no ADSR, only ADR. The effects have no parameters to adjust, usually just dry/wet. And for a multitimbral synth, no pickup/takeover means you will often wildly change patch parameters when switching layers or even changing patches, with no way of knowing what the original value was supposed to be.
But it sounds good and its fast.