Yeah, maybe it's not even ready yet. Pretty much like the Pulse 2. However, Novation usually doesn't take long to actually release their products after announcing them. I do like the physical interface and the specs. Moog made a big deal out of having noise and distortion on their latest model. And this one has it to. The Korg, even though it's a reincarnation of a classic product, also has a wonderful sounding high pass filter and some extra modulation options with their semi-modular approach, with the patch bay. The Mini Brute ranks high in the filter department, it's actually based on very good circuitry and they took their time and hired one of the best for it - and it does deliver.
Pulse 2 has very good specs as well, but if I felt there should be a version of Blofeld with more knobs on it, I don't even think it makes much sense to have an analogue synth with such an interface - could be totally wrong though.
I don't get why DSI has dropped the MEK to, as it was meant to be very good competition to the Moog Sub line of synths - and priced a bit lower. In my opinion, they have much better specs on them.
So, I'd say Korg MS 20 mini, this new Novation and the Mini Brute seem to be the best bang for the buck for analogue mono synthesizers with small keyboards and affordable prices. DSI can easily compete directly with Moog in this department as well, but since it's a short company, they're probably more focused on the big brother prophet 12. But would like to see something in the lines of the MEK come up some time soon. Either pure Analogue (with knobs on it, not like the Mopho or Tetra please), or hybrids - which is probably the territory to go for nowadays, since most people like to have one foot on both sides of it anyways.
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