I’m loving what I’m hearing and seems to have so many tricks and possibilities. Yes it’s pricy but from what it has seems worth it to me but I need to save some more before I can take the plunge. Also kind of wished I had an MPE controller to take full advantage of it and I don’t have one unfortunately.
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1000 Euros… By midnight. Or I’ll set my eels on you again 
Not mentioning the ethics of Behringer (or lack thereof), the Pro 16 is a rehash of a synth that’s been here for ages.
The Twist was newly designed from scratch, by a European one-man company, and includes left field features. I think it’s understandable that it’s more costly. And justified in my humble opinion.
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Agree with you. It seems a fair price for s one man company and very specific synth. Unfortunately for me, I will not buy it. I would pay 600 for it but 1000 is too much.
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100% agree! When designed with love, it’s easy to fall in love!
They do look a touch small. But I guess it’s a trade-off in overall size of the synth vs size of faders.
Worth it to have so much hands-on control I reckon.
They don’t look too small, but hard to tell without having one in real-life.
Wonder how they compare to some of the tiny faders on Roland boutiques?
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£1200, I’m just going to keep my eye on it for a while.
A good thing about twisted electrons is your guaranteed lots of regular firmware updates with this machine.
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Had a fine time playing with this at Superbooth, and don’t remember any problem with the physical controls.
I would have preferred some of these features moved into blastbeats rather than a performance-focused box, but that’s just what I’m into. My dream would be basically a digitone (toneverk?) but with the soundblaster chip or similar retro fm chip.
My guess is that a lot of the costs go to the filters, which do look pretty cool but I’d have to play with in person before deciding if it’s for me. Would prefer 16 buttons to the touch strip.
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I guess opening a price discussion is always difficult, as one has to decide for themselves what the real value of a unit is. I just want to put into perspective that TWISTfm is produced and developed by a very small, EU-based company, which simply can’t be compared to companies like Behringer, Roland, or even Moog.
Additionally, there’s such a wide price spectrum (e.g. Black Corporation at the high end with prices around 5K, down to Behringer) that it’s hard to make judgments without understanding the specific backgrounds.
Here’s my personal take: if we want to keep small manufacturers alive—those who deliver truly creative ideas instead of just making safe, cloned products—we shouldn’t shy away from paying a bit more. That extra expense helps sustain creativity on the manufacturer’s side, allowing them to bring us solutions that big global players would never dare release due to mass-market logic.
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I think your personal take it’s what makes hardware synth world move forward with innovative creations. I have 3 products from twisted electrons, and they are outstanding. I’m with you, I don’t mind pay more to such small companies. It’s a labour of love what they make.
And, best of all, the support is better and the firmware updates and bug fixes more and quicker. And that cost more money and I’m happy to pay for that (thinking on oxi one for example).
Instead larger companies like korg where is less updates, less communication with customers, they listen less and when they release something is almost or totally finished (I’m not against that but I prefer to pay for products with further development and better communication)
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yeah i dont have any issues with b, but the twist’s appeal is that its innovative and sounds like nothing else, in my opinion
it seems to have that perfect balance of modern deep capability plus classic rich beautiful tone that is hard to find
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That’s why I’ll often buy Ipad apps with no idea if I’ll even use them.
Support this thing, we all love, in any way we can!
The Twist simply looks superb. It is expensive, for me at least, but such a refreshing change from the nonsense of deliberate omissions and limitations that many manufacturers are imposing nowadays.
They’ve gone all out to make it as good as possible!
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It’s nice to see how much the quality has improved. My friend has the original hapiNES, and judging by his experience, it’s a noisy buggy mess that is a pain to use. But looks like everyone is happy with the currently produced Twisted Electrons synths.
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couldnt agree more with this. imagine if more gear manufacturers did this
did we ever figure out whether or not all of those crazy sounds were mainly due to the pedals in the chain or is it mostly the synth itself? because the sounds in this one blew me away
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In the video the synth sounds completely dry.
Looks great and I’d love to try it!
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Well, not so fast for me. I have acid8 MK2 and midi clock clock doesn’t work well if I remember correctly. Other than that, build quality is great and sounds very good.
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Do you @colectivo_triangular know or have tested if it can power a controller with the USB? Im thinking if it could power the Torso T-1 for example? That would be super cool 
The preset demo is nice but I really would like to hear more of the filter character.
Slow filtersweeps on a sawtooth (ok a feedbacked sine on this one) and maybe some comparisons of the different drive levels.
But I’m sure there will be more demos coming
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I really like USB Hosts like in the new Ableton MOVE, too. But the TWISTfm in that regards behaves like most other current synths and only features USB device mode (hope I’ve got that right) where you can only connect it to a USB host for MIDI info exchange but without powering other USB devices.
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I guess, I’ll do a second video soon, as I’ve also got to admit that I’ve forgotten to display the external in feature, which is also quite nice. In that context, I’ll likely show the filters in more detail.
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