I'll knock up a few loops this eve if my MachineDrum hasnt shown up - thats supposed to be arriving today or tomorrow so once that turns up I'll be distracted for a while
Just thought, there is another synth around could be interesting for these kind of hybrid FM+VA sounds - thats the Alesis Fusion synh/workstation. Prices from Thomann have recently plummetted to something close to US prices so they are beginning to look very interesting - around 1K (UKP) for the 6HD now - 6op fm synth 2 osc VA (there was talk about making it 4 osc in an OS update), sampler, physical modelling synth, sequencer/multitrack etc...