Sequential Take 5

Uh other currencies will scroll below and it is while it's still a bit premium. It's actually a nice package with the heart of it being analog in the ...

I'Ve only used it for a couple of days, so my opinion might change over time, but i really want to get my kind of first impressions out there.

I wouldn't sell the OB6 to buy the Take 5, but rather sell if I didn't think I was getting good use from it. It's not a cheap synth and is limited in many ways. What it does, it does well and the sound can be arresting, but it can end up always fulfilling the same role: those filter mode sweep, fizzy pads. That is a nice sound, but nice isn't what makes synths useful.

Much easier to do that sort of thing on Peak. Peak's built-in effects are miles better than Take 5's (which lines up with most criticisms I've seen of the T5). I also noticed some aliasing/ distortion/ clipping on pure sines with the T5 if osc level was above 75% and master volume was above 50% - you really have to be careful gain-staging this thing, it really wants to be aggressive.

The Sequential Take 5 feels like the right call here. Good analog sound, five-note polyphony, lots of modulation, great knob interface with minimal menu diving, decent keybed (not as good as Matriarch but still great), saves patches. I really like the Take 5 quite a bit.

>Right now I'm eyeballing the Sequential Take 5. pretty sure those are quite similar to the rev 2 in sound. if you want to go in a different direction, you can get a full hydrasynth for less than Novation Peak prices. For textural stuff, wavetables *and* lots of modulation options is good. But it's probably top tier in terms of workflow, it's one of the best laid out synths I've seen in recent years.

Some real power moves from Sequential in the last few weeks. First we get the Take 5, an affordable synth capable of vintage SC sounds, announced and shipping. It both meets a hungry market segment, and takes a lot of the heat out of Behringer's years long teasing of similar offerings.