Korg Volca Sample New Generation

A fun little groovebox that is best when you have some alone time with your headphones. But I doubt its usefulness in a long term, or the ability to 'grow up with the user'.
The interface looks very cool, but as others already mentioned, knobs are wobbly. Most of them are also very thin, and very tightly packed, which is not great in terms of overall control, if you have bigger hands. That gets even more tiresome as the hours go by.
The portability is also questionable, because this thing needs many batteries and burns through them fast. It's probably due to the internal speaker, which is poor quality and has no low end. In my opinion, it's just bad design.
I know there are people that can link several of these boxes and make live music with them, but the amount of batteries (or Korg-specific AC adapters) required is ridiculous, an exact opposite of "eco friendly". It might look flashy on Youtube, but IMO it would be wiser just to save up and buy one decent synth.

Pros:
- Fun, straightforward synth which is easy to get started with.
- Good looking, attractive design.
- Lightweight and able to take battery power

Cons:
- Very limited onboard memory
- I have been unable to get my Volca Sample2 to accept samples from either the Volca Librarian software or Vosyr.
- Samples that do load are made noisey in the process.
- The pots for the bass/treble filter knobs (above the screen) wobble when you move them. I have been reassured by other Volca owners that this is normal, however having looked at a stripdown of the unit online, I note they are surface mounted components. Movement is not good for solder joints, so I expect this movement may lead to breakage over time.

Overall, it's fine for what it is but I was expecting a better product Korg, and my frustrations with the desktop software have lead me to finally give up and return it.