sigh. They went further away from me as well.
Have to try the take 5 instead
Agreed. Up to £3000 new now for a P6. That’s just too much for me. Can’t justify it.
Lucky maaaan! Congrats. I’m so very tempted.
It’s really something else. An hour with it and it’s obviously something very special.
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Apart from Take 5, does Rev2, Ob6 or Trigon6 do FM? Thanks!
OB6 does both VCO->VCF and VCO->VCO FM, and without having checked I’m guessing the other two do as well.
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The LFO on all of them can also reach audio rates, plus they all have a Ring Mod in the effects section too.
Hi guys!
- Is there a way to solve filter bleed in Rev2?
- Does Rev 2 have Osc FM (similar to Prophet 10)?
Thanks a lot!
Rev 2 has digital controlled oscillators so it can’t do real fm, it has the lfo that can follow pitch but it is not really the same. Take five has true fm but it goes through a digital conversion. Only the six series and higher have real honest fm and filter fm that is 100% voltage lines from source to destination 100% analog.
Take five still sounds amazing though… and I have no idea about the oberheim but I would think it is real analog fm too but it is whatever the original had.
Finally got to try P10… and I must say that I was greatly not amazed… I believe I like better even Rev2, and of course TAKE5.
Am I crazy?!?
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You like what’s you like.
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Correct, dco synth’s cannot do fm. I’m really not sure the specifics of why, I use to know but I’ve forgotten why exactly.
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Never had a high end analogue synth before - did a lot of YouTubing last night and with loads of gear to offload I am tempted by the OB-6 desktop. Sounds so 80s, warm and phat!
I was originally looking at Prophet 6 but in comparison videos OB-6 sounded nicer to my ears!
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You can wait until next week’s TEO release and reconsider your options 
It is right…
The only dco synth’s that have fm like some Roland synth’s are actually using a form of amplitude modulation instead. They call it fm but it is not. Dco synth’s CAN do ring modulation and filter fm, just not real fm because they receive messages from a digital clock source converted to voltage. Vco only receives voltage so it can be a fm source.
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I mean one oscillator modulating another at audio rates directly by voltage is real fm. The ob6 has real fm, even the take five passes through a digital converter before bring turned back into voltage for fm. On the ob6 it is a direct line on the voice card. Real fm is actually rare on poly’s and even did like a Moog subsequent can’t do real fm because it was before that got real popular and it goes through a digital modulation matrix. Of course you can fm with a filter but that is not really the same. Anyone you add digital stepping into the mix it starts to sound funny… the take five fm did sound better but nothing like a p6 or a p5 fm does.
I’ve been wanting to get into Sequential synths, or one at least.
However, I can’t find any to actually play and they have too many similarly LOOKING ones (visually and on spec sheets) for me to just guess at these price ranges.
Definitely not using YouTube to figure it out… too many variables messing with the audio you hear in those videos and people using useless descriptions like ‘lush’ or ‘bright.’ They’re also too subjective and rarely play what I want to create.
OB-6?
Prophet 6?
Prophet 5/10?
Rev2?
Take 5?
I’ve sort of given up for now and grabbed a Pro-800, despite my dislike for Behringer, which is ‘sort-of’ a Prophet 600, which is also ‘sort of’ like a Sequential sound. It’s… alright, particularly when effects are thrown on top of it (non-internal).
Anybody know a synth store that carries Sequential stuff regularly on display in Atlanta, GA?
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It says in the video he is doing filter mod… but to answer your question rev2 audio mod is using the oscillators to mod something, not an individual oscillator signal. Everything I said before about it is actually a digital signal also applies too btw.
You can find all kinds of tricks to simulate real fm and I’m not disputing that… I have synth’s that are built just like this and you can use a lfo that is following pitch to fm also… there is all kinds of tricks… said that, none of that will ever be real fm… After you have messed around with it in tons of synth’s you just can immediately tell from how it sounds and is responding and there is a difference… I don’t know what else to say… all of this fm is not even that great compared to a synth like a make noise or cascadia it something that is mono and meant to excel in fm… thru are not exponential and some have thru zero and are a totally different game altogether.
I do think the p6 and p5 fm is very characterful and am a big fan of though, those synth’s have something special in the fm I really like. Nothing like a buchla or something though.
It really depends on your expectations in terms of budget, knowledge and features.
I chose my poly based on the least possible amount of features and the highest amount of easily detectable sweet spots, that is after owning a Hydrasynth for a year and a half: Prophet 10. It doesn’t get any simpler than that: no effects, no arp, no sequencer, no stereo, no clock, just a single mono LFO unless you can spare the 2nd VCO. With the Hydrasynth I have realised that, for me, too many features on a poly, no matter how glorious its sound, kill too much of my time available for making music.
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