Behringer Solina String Ensemble

Sound-wise It is exactly what you expect it to be and is incredibly fun to play, especially along some generative/noisy patch on <any synth you've got>. It's not true it's a one-trick pony: it's a two-trick pony since besides the original Solina sound (you could argue that's already two but without the bbd chorus engaged it seems a bit annoying) there's a built-in phaser which turns it into ,,whatever you play sounds like "Oxygene" machine''. Much appreciated.
The 4 octave range seems more than enough too.
My unit has no problems with buttons or sliders (I've read some people complain about that) and generally the build quality is good.

The only problem I have is it doesn't work great with yamaha dx27 as a midi keyboard - somehow every 10th or so note is missing, as if I didn't press the key I pressed (doesn't matter if in chord or solo). It seems some people had similar issue with earlier barps 2600 so maybe it's something about firmware, BUT this does not happen with newer controllers like keystep. Pretty weird.
The phaser's LFO range is sufficient, but it's a pity there's no cv input since on some occasions I'd like it to be even slower... I guess that's what original SmallStone offers.

Overall a great instrument.