Thanks for that, NovationLover. Had a look and it does look pretty interesting.

Definitely tempted by the Elektron.

Another I've cone across is the Radikal Spectralis. Different price league and sounds harder to tame though. Anyone know about them at all ?

Grand - many thanks for all replies. Gives me some things to think about !

Thanks all very much for that - really appreciated.

One thing I'm slightly unsure of with the Monomachine is its ability to just do chords with the monosynths. It's got a 6 part sequencer but if you want to record a 4 note chord does that leave you with just 2 tracks to play with ?

Hi everyone. I'm thinking about getting a Korg Electribe EMX-1 SD (they should have put more letters in there I think). I think I'm looking for one bit of hardware kit for music "production" and getting ideas down on and I quite like the idea of grooveboxes. I might use it for dancy/techno-ish stuff...