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CHRIS SEWELL wrote: "I have been tempted. But it seems like it has such a distinctive sound. I can just imagine "that sound" permeating music for the next 6 months then disappearing. Much like the Adrenilinn did." Yeah, Chris, I actually thought of this before I bought it, although I have to say, that innovation, timbrally, in music always goes through the curve of phenonmenal and brand new, used a lot, over used, abandoned. (and I want to throttle the next R&B/hip hop producer who forces the 'Cher Antares Autotune Wobble' onto another young female vocalist). The first time I heard Andre LaFosse creating tiny guitar loops and then playing them or sequencing them from a drum machine it was astonishing, I had never heard it before, but, after time, one gets used to a sound and decides whether it is 'old news' or 'classic' in terms of their expanding repertoire. I still use that technique though (as does Andre, brilliantly) and keep finding new ways to make it sound interesting. Many the time we've seen analogue synths come into vogue, get overused in pop music, dissapear and then resurface 10-15 years as the 'latest thing'. But, if you think of it, the Viola da Gamba was an incredible innovation for bowed string players, then it was replaced by the Viola in popularity. Personally, my attempt to circumvent this phenomenae is to continually be trying to learn new instruments, new techniques and then to attempt to innovate new techniques on the instruments I"m playing. I'm fairly certain that I will be the first and last person to strike a brass candy dish with my thumb; manipulate the overtones rhythmically, slice it with the SL-20 slicer, loop it, rerecord it into the Electrix Repeater and then play it melodically over three octaves with a Yamaha WX-5 wind synthesizer. I think with all equipment, creativity is the final arbiter of whether something is useful or not. If worse comes to worse, I, as an incredibly technically mediocre guitarist (and two day old fretless guitarist.......lol) can use this thing to get guitar textures that sound fantastic when I put drums, bass and some kind of lead instrument over the top...............and quickly at that. But it might not be the instrument for you as I respect fully.