
So I'm looking at about £500 to spend on a crazy as h**l Analogue Poly Synth OR that rare breed of VA with an unpredictable synth engine and filters with bags of character. Something that sounds as different as possible from the Roland gear I've owned over the years that all sounds so plastic and safe.
Criteria are simple - lots of knobs to twiddle and tweak OR a very well designed digital interface (IE: Korg Poly 61 and DW-8000) and its got to have keys!

For Real Analogue I was looking at SCI Prophet 600s. I've heard some crazy things pop out of one of those with a bit of tweaking. Although not strictly analogue, I've been giving DW-8000's good long looks into, the complex waveforms intreigue me.

For VAs I'm looking to steer as far away as possible from Roland VAs (They feel and sound like half-hearted toys to me, the SH201 was a massive dissapointment) as well as steering clear of the Alesis, Akai and cheap Korg VAs.
Korg MS2000 (in that oh so sexy black if I can find one) or, if I can find one cheap, an Oberheim OB12.
I'm torn between the MS2000 and AX80 to be quite honest. From what I've seen, both can do their own brand of crazy nonsense. I especially like the mad sequence sounds of the MS2000, but the sheer raw brutality of the AX80 just makes me tingle. I feel like a damsal caught between two rugged knites.

Any suggestions and/or advice, please throw them my way.

Cheers all!
-Ben