I saw this bad boy on ebay and couldn’t resist. I’ve owned a mono evolver desktop for some time, and had struggled to get on with it. It sounded amazing but somehow trying to navigate round that little programming matrix whilst playing your patch on a master keyboard just didn’t feel right. So I thought I’d gamble on the keyboard version, and I think it payed off.

Finally the Evolver feels like the uber-synth it really is. Having dedicated knobs for almost all parameters makes it easy to program. The keyboard is great quality and has the nicest aftertouch response I’ve ever used. The only real downside I can see is that I’ll be lusting after a poly version now!