Hi CV,
My feeling about Origin is ambivalent:
I like its sound and GUI very much. It has lot of power, beautiful analog type sound, amazingly well made interface which is surprisingly easy to learn to use, enough knobs to tweak. Also 4-part multitimbrality 32-voises polyphony makes it winner over many other VAs. Templates are marvellous and fascinationg creatures. Also I have no issues with new firmware and Origin connection software (in my mac).
But, like some others here too, I am little worried about its build quality and possible repair process if something goes wrong. In fact this is my second Origin unit. First one had problems with knobs; one by one they started go broken. Problem was also that here in Finland (and Sweden too) there was no legalized repairer; Arturia told me NOT to try to fix it here. (and it was about knobs which normally aren't the most difficult parts to replace you know) In other words, you can buy this product from anywhere in the world, but it seems to me that only place to repair it is in France (Arturia). And I am not sure how much they have spare parts and time to fix those broken units. So all this procedure makes me little worried.
So to sum it, I really hope that Arturia keeps selling and developing this marvelous thing and stays in business in general. Otherwise we (who already have it) are screwed someday (sooner or later) when our Origins start malfunction.
Maybe Arturia could say little to this build quality / repairment issue to confort us or remove possible prejudices about these issues....?
