Yes, I prefer my manuals cold and soulless. Just give me a giant 3-ring binder with "OPERATIONS MANUAL" in typewritten font on the cover. And no pictures, just black and white text. We wouldn't want anybody to mistake this collection of precision silicon components for something frivolous like a musical instrument or something.

My Moog modules came with fun colorful posters. They must be marketed toward kindergarten.

This is giving me flashbacks to my Wavestation AD full manual

I think this will be a pretty good seller for Seq... I see a few potential market angles for this:

1. Beginning/Intermediate keyboardists looking for a VCO analog poly synth with modulation depth and core rhythmic capabilities (arp/seq/global lfo). Good sound architecture for bread and butter stuff from 80s through modern, but also ability to learn and get deeper into sound design (with 16 mod slots, and a decent amount of options for LFO and Env routings, plus built in effects) This will also likely also be a good compact master controller for people with limited desk space to run DAW/VSTs -- assuming the Fatar keyboard quality is as good as Seq's other recent offerings... it has velocity+aftertouch, with full size keys and mod/pitch wheels.

2. Guitarists/Bassists/Vocalists or other multi instrumentalists looking to add some analog poly synth melody/harmony as an occasional secondary instrument.

3. Weekly/nightly gigging keyboardists who want a compact synth to throw in a gig bag and more easily travel via car/bus/metro/plane.

4. Synth fiends like myself (and others on this forum and elsewhere) who already have other poly synths that are more versatile, and don't really need this, but want the core Prophet 5 sound architecture as an option to complement other synths.

This is not a synth meant to wow everyone (especially not on this forum It's not the flagship poly synth I'm hoping Seq will release sometime soon, and not the OB that we'll likely see next... But for its price, seems like a really solid offering. I can see why Seq decided to create it. I'm picking one up.

If it's not for you, that's fine... move along. If you have objective criticisms, voice them... that's constructive. Or just bash it with only unarticulated, subjective criticism... as seems to be the tradition for this forum. It would be sorta funny if the words "harsh, lush, warm, cold, thin, thick, " were bleeped out like expletives on GS.

4.

Oh thanks for reminding me.
My Wavestation SR had TWO manuals. There was a Player's Guide, and a Reference Guide.

Both were very thick and heavy technical masterpieces written by the one and only Dan Phillips.

But then there was also a 3rd, thinner "Performance Notes" document which was only like 30 pages. It's the light-reading alternative to the other two.

And then a 4th single-page list of factory performances.

Exactly! The only weak, nasal aggressive sounds I hear are coming from the posters on this thread; the T5 itself sounds full and marvelous!

Matia's demo makes use of the extended bandwidth in the T5 to show off some bright, vivid sounds. But all you have to do is turn the filter down a bit to make it sound very P5.

So yeah, REV2 and P5R4 and P6 owners are not going to rush to toss out their existing synths. True for Pro3 owners, too. But this synth isn't for that audience, really. And the good news is, it sounds amazingly close to all of them, which is ultimately what matters. It sounds great. Period!

K2000?

Found the complete title of the book mentioned. It's not really a manual, it spans from synth history to subtle synth tricks: Howard Scarr Programming Analogue Synths.

I take you to mean “how dumb it all is” rather than how dumb “he is”. You can say people who buy 1959 Les Pauls are getting the same 6 strings and same paf pickups but paying “dumb” money. And it is dumb.

Not sure what you mean. Korg Wavestation AD
You can google the manual

I’ve already preordered, okay, okay…. I’m a worthless hipster
Actually hoping to use it as a vco jazzy lead fat bass kinda board

Thank you for organizing/presenting.

Had a good chuckle reading this ?

Pro3 oscillators are quite bad for a hardware analog synth at the price they are pushing.

No idea what you are talking about I can make my pro3 sound exactly like my moog grandmother and m32 for raw osc as well as the main sounds I use on it. Obviously the reverb on grandma is different but with that off. You just gotta put in a little work to figure it out. I can also copy my moog subharmonicon using just a fraction of the pro3 sequencer. On the other hand if I try I can purposely make sounds that I can't copy from the moogs but going the other way pro3 can so easily make infinite sounds that those to couldn't copy.

My guess is that was probably used in Peff’s opening track.

I think that should be written in the login page.

Change is difficult; you have my sympathies.

5. Seasoned pros who want a full featured auxiliary synth that can cover miscellaneous sounds, right hand pads and fills, and occasional leads off the side of their main rig when playing live.

Because of it's size, it's the perfect 3rd or 4th board for tours. I think we're going to see a lot of them onstage.

First Daily Challenge is to do the entirety of "Time Out" using only the Take 5. We expect results within a week of your having received your instrument. No substitutes allowed. Past performances are not indicative of future performances. You will get a pink Krig 6 as a prize if you win.

4 & 5
I’m hoping

The Minilogue xD has been fine in terms of midi timing, maybe it was improved over the prologue's.

I've gotten great sounds out of the mini xd, but I use all custom sounds.

I wouldn’t attempt to compare to the Pro3 as an owner of it. not apples to apples. they do look similar.

Yes, horrible. They sound like an egg sandwich toasted with baked tuna fish, fried in sesame oil and then liquified in an electric blender and mixed in with a McDonald's milkshake (extra super large).

Or not.

I find my Pro 3 saw, triangle, sine, wavetable oscillators all sound just fine, actually. How would you define "quite bad"....???? Not perfect shapes? Too perfect shapes? Shapes that are imperfect in ways that you do not understand? Insufficient mix of fairy dust and gluten substitute? Help me understand.

The only reason I say that is one of the clips I heard kinda had that steely dan thing going, I’m going for the pink!

The Pro 3 has this nasaly type of sound to it with no smoothness or bottom end richness like on a moog.

I can always add on effects later to a moog, but you can't add the character of a moog to a pro 3.

Are you monitoring on headphones or something?


pro 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebib-JUxwUY
sub 37:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7kbGZ2sPg

All i know is i really hope they can add the arp feature and the glide features to my p6.. I have other synths thay do that and it is really dope!!

I feel like you are trolling me. I don't have anything against moog and have owned almost all of them at one time or another and several currently but it sounds like you work there. The moog sound is overdriving a 24db lp ladder and guess what... pro3 has that. If you want you can get an ajh minimod vcf and "add the character of a moog" to anything including a pro3 but you don't need to because pro3 filter is plenty close enough. If I find some time I will make comparison recordings and see if you can tell which is which.

I have a thing for coaxial speakers KEF atmos setup and tannoy stereo. I also like celestion greenbacks for more colored sound when jamming guitar and synth. However it isn't the speakers (or headphones) because that wouldn't make one always sound better or worse. Same thing with you. It is how you turn the knobs.

A big part of the Grandmother/Matriarch sound is the way the mixer saturates, which I can't come close to on the Pro 3. It's ok though, because it does like 8 million other things that sound amazing.

Also, after hearing the current Take 5 demos I'm 99% sure I'm going to grab one and sell all of my polys other than the Prologue and OG Minilogue (which have their own charms).

Pretty cool. Has anyone else made Pro3 sound like Grandmother?