Alesis Ion Sound Review

Another portion of pure hardware inspiration from great japanese website Musictrack.jp. This time it's Alesis Ion Analog Modeling Synthesizer - fat sounding digital synth :) Presented to the public in 2002, the Ion has 8-voice polyphony with 3 oscillators per voice, and is 4-part multi-timbral. It offers continuously variable wave shapes (sine waves can morph into square waves), plus osc-sync and FM synthesis. Description seems similar to VST instruments but something tells me that the quality is different. Or maybe it's just about the musician ? :)