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I was pretty happy with stock pads, and a blue Hawaii with my esp950s

Oh, no worries, not your responsibility to answer my questions.  Funnily enough, I got the small mio and successfully updated the OS on my Prophet 6 and now it sounds awesome.  Will try to get away with that until it’s not enough. Will listen to your track later, on the good system.

snakefinger still remains as one of my favorite musical discoveries.   

Apologies for the super-delayed response! Personally, I'd be inclined to ignore MOTU these days. I know they used to be go-to option once upon a time, but there's a bit of a stench of decay around their driver support and maintenance these days- I think that function could be the responsibility of an unhappy skeleton crew. They seem to take a lot time to track OS changes and bugfixes can be painfully slow. I don't use a lot of MIDI personally, I have MIDI I/O on my FH-2, my soundcard and on the main Euro sequencer if I need it. I think if I was after a lot of ports I'd probably be looking at this: https://www.iconnectivity.com/mioxl Lots of people seem to be happy with how solid they are- they seem to be sufficiently boring, which is what you want in such a device 😎       Oh, while we're at it, treated myself to a new non-budget soundcard, it has been years since I had anything decent quality at home. Suddenly, recordings aren't muddy any more, even when internally mixed on the modular and output via the little output module- clearly the bottleneck was the cheap soundcard. Behold a quick test recording:   It sounds clean and clear without being harsh, praise be! Straight out of the modular, no post-processing. I am a happy bunny.