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Comment by dimatura

19 hours ago

"worth the money" is hard to say, especially for devices like these where the value is not really so much on the plain features as much as a more subjective factors like the design and the UI. I would say that purely based on features - probably not, especially with post-covid pricing. There are more powerful iphone or android apps for much less. Behringer, and to some degree Korg and Roland offer lower-end devices for not much more that ultimately might be more useful and usable. But, I do own a couple of these little guys and they're fun. I wouldn't call them "jokes", but calling them "toys" - in the good and bad sense - would probably not be a stretch, even if you can get some nice sounds out of them. I used to keep a couple on my desk and just jam a little with them as a distraction.

Garageband was never even half as much fun as three POs plugged together - at least for me. Same way the all the guitar effect models running on my iPad aren't nearly as much fun as stomping on the Rat Distortion or Boss Chorus pedals I bought 35 years ago.

I don't know if people younger than me, who grew up with touch screen devices, have that same affinity for physical controls over touchscreens?