ok after a week of messing around with it. Wow. it has a lot of pluses. It has that low end of the moogs. The filter sounds very moog like, but i do have some complaints that i will get to later. The oscillators are big and fat and sound kind of like the voyager.

It has one modulation matrix, only one modulation tho, which i think really sucks all things considered, way to limited, should allow to rout to multiple destinations, and it doesn’t. not from what i can figure out any how. The mod wheel setting is not remembered by patch storage(the mod wheel controls the amount of modulation for the modulation destination), which i think is purely idiotic. this is 2007 for crying out loud, why on earth did they choose do to it like this? stupid. So every time i pull up a patch that relied heavily on modulation, i have to guess where i had the mod wheel set to. This is stupid, and i cannot stress it enough how irritating i find it. i like to run synths live, and if i want to program change to a new patch that relies on the mod wheel setting I’m crap out of luck. talk about a bummer. My old juno 106 never gave me modulation bs like this and that synth came out in the early 80s.

Ok. the sound. For certain types of bass, it rocks, its really warm and fat. Envelopes snap good, and the over all sound in this area is rally nice. Now, if i open up the filter, the sound is well, NOT VINTAGE. IT lacks this high end frequency information that my micro moog, and my sh 2 have. and i know the original minimoog had this high end presence as well. This synth and the voyager do not. It irritates me a little, i have to add a lot of high eq just to get it to sound ok on some sounds, and that is no real fix either. but honestly, its still really usable compared to anything digital. its so fat.

Lets get to the resonance on the filter. It lacks spit, wetness, and high end frequencies that my jupiter, micro moog had. It has this duller resonance compared to some of my other older vintage pieces, but i have managed to get some good resonance bass out of it actually. I am changing my mind more and more as i program this thing.. (UPDATED) I posted resobass mp3s below, new!

So despite those complaints, i do like this synth, It can cover some ground, but for leads, the lack of high end really makes it sound kind of dull compared to a real old moogs. for certain bass sounds, i really like it. i can get great sub bass, and those woody wormy aggressive non wet bass sounds of the mini and micro. And i can get good resonance bass with snappy envs like most moogs. The midi is nice, and i really like the action of the keyboard, it responds well to playing fast.. and for me thats great.

I’ll use this synth to thicken up the low end on my tracks when ever it needs it. and for that, this is a great synth. But do not expect it to replace anything vintage, it most certainly does not do that.

The interface is great, no stepping on the knob movements, cool lights to show you the ballpark of where the knob once was kind of like the nord 3. Very cool. It is so easy to edit sounds and get your head around this if you have used any old analog before. a button for anything you want to edit, and the knob above.. very good. i can honestly say that with the filter over drive, and the tight sound, i do prefer how simple it is to edit and get great sounds out of right away, vs the voyager which confused me with its new stereo filter nonsense that i didn’t care for at all. They added sample and hold and noise in the latest os update. there are a few hidden menus that you need to figure out. they added per patch pitch bend and filter pole controls per patch now, and this really helps. the filter poles can give you that 303 or arp sound pretty well. this gets me the moog sound i wanted without breaking my bank account. I like this ok, i give it a 6 out of 10.

here are some sound examples.. click below.

New samples i just did:(UPDATED)

lpsyncbass2.mp3
llpsweep2.mp3
lpresbass.mp3
lpresbass2.mp3
lposc2tofilterfm.mp3

Older ones:

lpsyncbass.mp3

lpsweep.mp3

lppwmbass.mp3

lpmoogybass.mp3

lpmoogbass.mp3

lpaggrobass.mp3