Glyn Barnes
What version is this? RRP is listed as $79, there is nothing at that price on KV331's website. Factory weighs in at $99

Gotta be factory.  It matches the description of the factory version on kv331's site.

This is a very tempting price.  I really need to give this thing a whirl

I tried the demo and subbmitted to temptation.
 
I have the serial number but can not work out how to regester it on the Synthmaster website. Has any one done this?

I just got a super fast response to my query from Synthmaster. Most impressive.
 
For anyone else who needs it go to 
http://www.synthmaster.com/register.aspx
 
 

I don't recall a registration process. If you have a serial number it is already associated with an email address. Those are the two parts needed to download files from the User area. The servers routinely get hammered during sales and updates.

The code from JRR shop is not a serial number. You register it with you email at the link I posted above an the serial number is generated.

sharke
It might well be a great synth...and I know this sounds petty...but the audio demos they have on that page are absolutely horrible. I am inclined to find out more about the synth after reading the description though. 

The factory presets are a mixed bag - some pretty good and quite a few just ho-hum.  However, there are many add-on sound sets that are both fairly inexpensive and quite good.  As someone else pointed out, the Nori Ubukata sets are a delight.  Last time I looked (maybe a couple of days ago) these were on sale for eleven bucks apiece.  With SynthMaster, you could very well end up spending 150 bucks or more by slowly buying the expansion sound sets - but by doing this incrementally, it's pretty painless.

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dubdisciple
The CM version is one of the buggiest tings CM has ever put out.  I found it to be useless.  It's a shame because they have often provided great CM versions of synths

I had this one crazy bug with the CM version where it would go silent after loading a second patch.  I reinstalled and it fixed that.  I haven't run into any problems since.