Great machine, the synthesizer Zen Core is extremely powerful and you can go very deep into sound design. Lot's of connection possibilities with external audio patched through the MC707 and using the FX engines. Detailed information on any sound manipulation via pop up windows in the main screen. The output sound is of very high quality. Interface with DAW very easy and gives 9 stereo channels in (8 tracks plus stereo input) and is effectively an external usb sound card. Very happy with this groovebox as unlike the previous grooveboxes this on has a fully implemented synth engine for constructing user sounds from scratch. NB you store your own sounds as part of a project and can then load them into new projects from the sound load function.