As a vocoder, you'd be hard pressed to find another one in the same price range that isn't software based. Since that's all I really bought it for in the first place, I suppose I would gladly buy it again if I had to. At least until somebody makes a better one at a similar price. In this age of VLSI chips, it's a wonder why nobody has yet. Perhaps I'll build my own.
All parameters are accessible through the front panel knobs.
No single data wheel, which is nice for a guy like me who likes to see everything laid out in front of him. Some of the reverbs can be a little noisy. But, by and large, it is a quiet box. The quality of an effect box is pretty subjective, but to my ear, the Zoom sounds great. There are a lot of things things this box can do that are very cool.