To give a little background, I've owned the Blofeld, Moog LP, Voyager (rack), Evolver, Mopho, and Prophet '08 (rack.)
My current set up is Future Retro XS, Moog Little Phatty SEII, and Virus TI snow.
Blofeld: Incredibly buggy, crashes alot, more crackles and issues than the Virus stuff for sure. Sounds good, but very bright and harsh. It's really not all that desirable if you already have a Virus, as it's feature set is similar.
Oh yeah, and NO EDITOR. Auto-fail, IMO.
Evolver: Analog/Digital Hybrid, can do some awesome delay grab sounds, weird wavetable stuff can happily crossbreed w/ analog oscs and get modulated all over the place. Great distortion characteristics. I've used this live alot, it's a beautiful, compact instrument, with a very signature sound. Honestly I think it's the best thing DSI has put out to date. Great patch editor, but it's not free.
Mopho: Evolver minus the wavetables and effects, basically. Signal path is 100% analog though, as opposed to going through fantastic sounding converters like the Evolver does, no noticable sound differences. Great patch editor. These are built sort of flimsy, but they are the best valued analog instrument on the market pretty much.
Prophet 08: Amazing pads and complex patches are available. Huge basses are possible too. Lots and lots of modulation options. Yes, knobs are not great, like all DSI products they seem to be made that way in order to keep down costs, i don't know why else they wouldn't go with something a little nicer feeling. It's a fun instrument, but ultimately I wanted a Virus more than this and sold it.
Voyager/LP: Pure analog bliss. Don't discount the Little Phatty in particular, it's an inspiring machine for bass and leads, as well as fx patches. Both machines feel like instruments instead of just ''new technology'' and that kind of feeling in gear is hard to come by these days.
If I was in your boat w/ a virus and looking for something else to complement, It'd get the Little Phatty in a heartbeat, it sounds that good.
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