Review Arturia Origin Its big its expensive its sexy Why dont I want one This is a difficult review to write . The point of Music Thing over the last few years has been to celebrate hardware when all around were defecting to the sensible, practical world of software synths and in-the-box mixing. Celebrating hardware not because its better, but because it looks cool and is nice to have around. The best hardware is ambitious, bonkers, knob-covered and over engineered; where no switch is left unilluminated and theres always a joystick. Synths should be modular and/or white. Sequencers should be analog and involve copious blinkenlights. We should remember the mega synths of the past - the Yamaha CS80, the ARP 2600, the Roland Jupiter 8, the Moog Modular, and we should remember the crazy experiments of the early digital era - Dave Smiths gnarly Prophet VS. Here, then, is one machine that does all that . The Arturia Origin is a big white synthesizer. It has a hand rest like an old studio c...