Wusik 4000 LE

Wusik Station's been around for ten years but I'd never given it more than a casual glance, assuming it was just for electronic pop and EDM. But I've been playing around with the new Wusik 4000 today and realize now that I've been underestimating it. There's actually a lot going on in there, and not just for wobbles and supersaws and glitchy, scratchy what-evers. There are also some nice pads, percussion and organic sounds too.
 
And now they've got an LE version that sells for 30 bucks. The only difference between it and the full version is you can only have one instance in your project. Other than that, it's got all the full version's features and the full library. Seems like a pretty good deal.
 
If you're not familiar with the instrument (I wasn't before yesterday), in a nutshell it's a semi-modular additive/subtractive synth/sampler/sequencer that can use just about anything as an "oscillator", including your own SFZ or Wave samples or drawn waveforms. You can layer and fade between an unlimited number of patches. It'll do round-robins and keyswitching. It's got a great-sounding built-in reverb, polyphonic portamento, an oscilloscope  and gobs of modulation possibilities.
 
Despite all the modules and routing flexibility, the UI is pretty clean and easy to use. At least, I'm having no problems figuring it out, and I can't say that about every synth I've ever used. I'm still figuring out Zebra.
 
Anyhow, take this for what it is - the first impressions of a new user - but my initial impression is that if you like Omnisphere, Alchemy and Dimension Pro then there's a good chance you'll find some use for this one, too. Especially at 30 bucks.
 
 

Dave, I'm answering your personal email question here in case anyone else is interested in this subject.
 
I owned Wusikstation back in the 32-bit day.  It was relatively inexpensive and a very good value, plus it had lots of usable sounds (that is, a high ratio of good sounds to also-rans).  The problem for me was sound library organization.  Wusik released add-on sounds in a haphazard (IMO) fashion that made things really hard to keep track of.  I never got around to upgrading to the 64-bit version mostly for that reason (that and the fact that I've got a huge number of other synths that I really like and do not have time to use to full advantage).
 
I'm not surprised if Wusik 4000 sounds good and is a great value.  But I'll be very interested to learn what people think of the issue I found problematic with Wusikstation.

Content management is definitely the weak point here.
 
WS is kind of like Dim Pro, in that they both have four sampled elements that you can layer.  WS adds two WaveSequenced layers, which is what makes it unique.
 
Now suppose you want to make a sound where you layer a bell sound with a glassy pad sound.  In DP, the elements are laid out in a reasonably organized directory structure.  Find the bells folder, find the pads folder, try elements until you find something close and you are there.
 
In WS, though, all the content is arranged by what library it was added in.  If you want to create the same sound as above, you would have to search through dozens of folders to find the WusikSND files (similar to the sfz in DP) to find anything.  Likewise, if you wanted to load an analog square wave sound, is it Moog 1, Oberheim 3,  etc?
 
If they had some sort of tagging of the elements, I would probably use it for patch design.  As it stands, though, I really have only bothered to use presets in WS.