Pardon my phrasing. “Id have paid $2000”. It’s worth more than a summit or rev 2 16 voice to me
I’ll try to come up with a more hip way to say that in the future
@Hawk I don’t mean to personally offend you with my thoughts on the synth. It’s not awful, I was just disappointed. I should have expected it to sound the way it did. I knew it was fpga and I never liked the demos I heard on YouTube but I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I was impressed by certain very plucky sounds with the sharp analog lpf for organic percussive sounds and some of the cool fm for more piano-like patches. Even the filter and the fm implementation on this synth is much more malleable and capable of producing satisfying results. but what I’m trying to stress with all this is that I have been searching for a a long time, reading pros and cons & “this synth vs that synth” threads and watching videos and buying and selling every synth under $2000 and it’s like sequential answered my prayers here.
I don’t think enough people realize this. And although I’m clearly not articulate enough to illustrate why everyone should give it a shot, I can at least say from my experience, coming in with an open mind and really trying to like these other synths, it was effortless for me to fall in love with this one. I have no doubt that in a year or two, once more people get their hands on it and someone like stimming, jexus, loopop, rmr or bonedo demo’s it, everyone will agree that it is without question the best synth available within a certain price range. It’s an exciting thing in my eyes, to have access to something like this. I had almost lost hope there. Amazing times we live in, with access to instruments like this
What are you basing this opinion on? I’ve owned both of these synths for quite some time. I know people have different tastes but I can’t imagine you’d come away saying the sound is even in the same league if you’ve sat down with both
To clarify: by “frail”, I mean it’s core osc sound is brittle and weak to me. Very thin like a microfreak/plaits and gets very muddled when adding harmonics or blending multiple oscillators in my opinion. By “painful to program”, I mean paging with buttons then going back to the encoders and top buttons to get to lfos, going in and modulating envelopes with themselves to get snappier exponential shapes, I can’t remember exactly what I didn’t like about patching on it but even ergonomically or in a tactile way, it literally didn’t feel good to program in my opinion. By contrast, the take-5 is not only immediately gorgeous and thick and modern sounding while capable of sounding huge and warm, but it’s also able to produce clean cold sharp timbres in addition to woozy gritty warbly syrupy patches. I’ve heard people do similar things with the peak, but there is a massive difference in sound quality to me. The sequential also just feels very good. the layout is intuitive, minimal menu diving with plenty of options, I love the knobs, I love the keyboard, I love the filter I love not using faders for envelopes or digging for hidden lfos. It’s like night and day to me, that’s the only reason I’m comparing the two. Because I know these are the synths people consider in the price range. One thing that is similar is that it’s irritating to name presets on both, but that’s an inconsequential nitpick