Can you import any wav sample files with the ‘wavs’ engine or does it only accept wavetables?
You can feed it any .wav
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Nice, that makes it even more of a useful synth engine. Thanks
What I don’t know is how this machine can be played with play+ or play.
With Play+ you have 3 of the synths (and with that synths you can do a lot) and is much much powerfull in terms of sequencing. I don’t know how much polyphony you can achieve with the synth part of play+ together with the midi part, but I really think that 3 synths in Play+ are at least for me more than enough.
As a device to play and enjoy it looks amazing, but I prefer less synths and more sequencing options.
The Synth is more about performance than sequencing - you can’t play three different synths at the same on the Play+, only include them in a sequence. While I’m still in my learning days with the Play+ the Synth is exciting in a whole different way.
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Eight (8) voices shared across the synths; note that the new PERC synth can play 5 drum hits simultaneously using only one voice, leaving 7 voices.
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In theory the number is much higher than 8, if you use the chord mode on the Plays. I don’t know how practical 8 stacked chords are in a real life scenario. But you might save some synth/MIDI tracks by utilising chords.
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New category on Backstage 
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That’s incorrect for the original 3 synths, as far as I have seen it in the Play+. You still need to allocate enough voices from the pool of 8 when you pick the synth (under the Polyphony setting). If it worked for you, it’s likely because it was already allocated to 3, but you can test it out: place some synth notes on a single track, set them to “Chords”, hit Play, then in the synth setting change the Polyphony value from 3 to 1, and you will immediately hear that you lost the chord.
I saw a demo of the two together in a video yesterday. It was glorious. I can’t wait!
If only playing internal synth voices, yes. But I’m reading this part into the equation:
So, let’s say your voices are distributed 3/3/2 across the synths. You spend a track with chords for each of the first 2 synths and 2 tracks for single note sequencing the last synth. You are now playing 8 voices on 4 tracks. Which means you still have 4 available tracks for MIDI. These can also play chords, and thus potentially more than just 4 external notes.
Again, there’s probably a practical limit to how many chords you want to play on top of each other.
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By the way, notes can overlap on a single MIDI/synth track. You can have note C on step 1 with note length 4, and note E on step 2 note length 4. It will use two synth voices (assuming ADSR on the synth allows that). So in you example it could be just three tracks utilizing the whole voice pool.
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I suspect they’d need a reason for you to buy the Synth…which is reasonable. But who knows 
well, it’s okay if you’re enthusiastic about it, but I won’t buy it in the near future (at very least). The updates we saw have nothing we saw in the wishlists, while here, right from the release, I saw two or three times @Mitch says you need to go and publish your vision there. At the same time I remember how I was personally asked to stop publish wishes for some reason, speaking of Play (you’re free to blame me too, if you find at least one nonsense thing I asked for in the last couple of years). And, yeah, for some reason, it seems obvious to me that all the updates were made so all the current owners wouldn’t get pissed even more, like what, another one product while there are still so many bugs with the last devices. You got your betas, have a happy beta testing with the device you bought 
also, considering all the experience, who knows, maybe there’s Synth+ over the corner. no guarantees. the performing side of this device… well, it seems, Play’s 8x4 pads we have on the right were made bigger and placed horisontally (here we have 5x12, but the purpose is the same; are they velocity sensitive btw?), while all the synth related options were placed on the surface (many Play+ owners asked for it). seems like it could be a good device (a single one), but now we have three. When BoBeats said in the beginning that it would be great to see something really new while all the manufactureres make the same product over and over again, it made me smile, you know.
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Why only 3 synth max play in one time? 
Analog Four can play 4 synth. But it’s analog.
I’m really enjoying Polyend. For a while, I was quite upset because the bugs weren’t being fixed, but after the new updates, I’m completely satisfied with the product. I have the Elektron ecosystem (almost all of their products), but after using Polyend, I don’t want to go back. I get a hundred times more enjoyment during the workflow on Polyend than on Elektron.
Each Polyend product is unique in its own way. They are excellent as standalone products and as complements to one another. And I am sure the new Synth will be just as interesting and unique.
Still a sequencer with swing and groove, that’s better than some company’s entire product lines. Polyend have the funk
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Yes, and with aftertouch.
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Or maybe i dont have budget or space for more devices, which is a reasonable reply?
To be fair, the Analog 4’s depths is about 3 times that of the Synth, weighs 8 pounds and is 4x the price! I really don’t think it’s fair to compare the 2.