Having a hardware synth tends to encourage different ways of working (recording in live, etc) and it is a lot of fun. The price is amazing on the Minilogue. I don't think I'll bother with getting it though, because even though its polyphonic, it's not stereo. (Which is common for an analog synth.) So no stereo spread trickery, that's all up to you to do on your own. I'll stick with u-He Diva for classic analog polysynth stuff because it can do nice wide pads, you can load up several instances, and sounds very analog.