The Micro-Synthesizer has a lot of great tones, but it doesn’t take long to change up the sound. Once you learn the pedal, it’s easy to get back to settings you like. I wouldn’t change it.

As for analog versus digital, who cares? I can think of some awesome digital effects by EHX (Holy Grail, POG, HOG) and others (Eventide Timefactor, Boss DD-5, etc.) and awesome analog effects. If the pedal makes a sound you like then who cares how it goes about doing it?

I’m not an EHX staff member, but I’ll say this. . .

Analog Pedals can have digital presets, it’s very possible. Here’s one with digital presets right here: http://t-rex-effects.com/Default.aspx?ID=2&ProductID=PROD113&VariantID;=

Because a digital chip can remember potentiometer values and through digital to analog conversion can present an analog circuit with analog potentiometer values.

So basically you have a digital chip simulating analog potentiometers to the analog circuit, with the analog potentiometers feeding the digital chip. When you store a preset, the digital chip stores those analog potentiometer values, and when you recall the the preset, it bypasses the current potentiometer values and feeds the analog circuit with the stored values.

(I might add that the T.Rex works a bit differently than this, since it has motorized potentiometers, instead of a D/A it just tells the potentiometers where to turn to, well that’s still technically D/A.. . but a really cool implementation which is sort of overkill)

Whether it would be cost efficient. . . I don’t know. It would add quite a bit to the circuit with a microcontroller, 10 D/A converters, an encoder (hazarai knob), a footswitch, and LED indicators. They’d need to use a pretty powerful microcontroller to do 10 d/a conversions as well as having 14 other inputs and however many outputs for the LEDS they’d have to add.