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If you’re not tied to analogue, I have a lot of time for the Ultranova. I think it suffers from unattractive presets, but under the hood there are some really powerful modulation and control options. If you play or perform live, or just like jamming, the touch encoders are a great feature - a tap of the finger can switch a whole host of mods around, and they all stack up, so it’s like having a little modular routing system if you set it up right (the only pain is you can’t lock them, though I think you can on the Mininova).

In addition to that there are some really interesting LFO options, such as musical scales, which work really well when synced to the arp and the gator effect (and repeating envelopes) - it’s definitely a playground for rhythmical patches. And there’s a chord mode too, so throw that into a slow latched arp and you’ve instantly got several bars of chord changes automated, which you can then mutate with the touch controls, mod wheel and what have you.

I always try to make time to recommend it when people are looking at polys, because I think it delivers a hell of a lot but, as I said, it’s not really apparent from the presets or most of the demos.