Hi,
IMO, it’s quite weird that ASTROLAB DX7 poliphony is only 8 voices. Same limitation I see in PIGMENTS and in AUGMENTED series (PIANO or STRINGS) where some patches are even 4 voice poliphonic (that means that those sounds are unuseful). I hope that future firmware releases could address this limitations. ASTROLAB is a very good instrument but with some major improvements could be really an outsider.
I believe that polyphony is limited by the hardware of the AL, so don’t hope that they will… even if they will tune the plugins and fix some issues, AL is good if you are a Youtuber and not a musician imho … great sounds, pressing one or two keys, or if you produce Trap (lol)
No competition with the VST counterpart.
PS. same-price-tag Akai 61 now does STEMS separation from a recorded wave, have more or less same preset number and variety of sounds, you can layer and split up to 4 plugins, does DAW, does audio input,network, wifi (working), have large touch screen, pads, cursors, with lot of polyphony too… just to mention one…