Hey, what are you talking about ? Did you only tried it more than 10 min ? You can't limit the karma to the "chord trigger" buttons. The new KARMA system, with full MIDI controllers, is the heart of this machine, the greatest i ever owned ( and i owned aroud 25 synthies in the past 10 years) Karma can be used as you say, ok, for some newbies, but a real musician can do a lot out of this fabulous machine. Specially for techno, Ambient,and generally elctronica.
And what about groove boxes ("please press play" system) or, worst, samples and loops ( dead of the Sounds creation) ? Hmmm?
(it's going to rock in here )