Repro-5

[Tp3]

MFM2 plus two soundbanks bought...
Tonight‘s dinner is dry bread and some tap water

You don't even need tap water. there are (delay) taps ready for you within MFM2 !

I wonder how different RePro-5 will be comparing to RePro-1 (besides the obvious).

[surreal]

Why does the Square wave in a Pro1 seem more beefier and bass heavy than in Repro1? Is there a way to get that nice beefy thick square wave sound in Repro1?

[EvilDragon]

Because Repro-1 is a monosynth and gain structure is different than on a polysynth. You've been Fletcher-Munsoned (louder=more bass). There are also chip presets on the Tweaks page, so check that out.

[AnX]

Why does the Square wave in a Pro1 seem more beefier and bass heavy than in Repro1? Is there a way to get that nice beefy thick square wave sound in Repro1?

Pro1 is analogue, repro1 is digital

[surreal]

Because Repro-1 is a monosynth and gain structure is different than on a polysynth. You've been Fletcher-Munsoned (louder=more bass). There are also chip presets on the Tweaks page, so check that out.

Sorry ED I was refering to Repro1 to Sequential Circuits Pro1 both are monosynths?

[AnX]

Because Repro-1 is a monosynth and gain structure is different than on a polysynth. You've been Fletcher-Munsoned (louder=more bass). There are also chip presets on the Tweaks page, so check that out.

Pro1 is mono too....

[Amram]

Why repro 1 have preset saving , effects, step seq.
Because its smarter than analog pro1.

[Urs]

Why does the Square wave in a Pro1 seem more beefier and bass heavy than in Repro1? Is there a way to get that nice beefy thick square wave sound in Repro1?

1. check that you do *not* have the "ideal" Osc setting on tweaks page
2. set PW slightly to left or right as it's humanely impossible to set Pro-One pulse to perfect rectangle

That's it.

(if you compare to, say, a Youtube synth demonstration video, add mandatory overdrive, delay and reverb to Repro-1)

[surreal]

Why does the Square wave in a Pro1 seem more beefier and bass heavy than in Repro1? Is there a way to get that nice beefy thick square wave sound in Repro1?

1. check that you do *not* have the "ideal" Osc setting on tweaks page
2. set PW slightly to left or right as it's humanely impossible to set Pro-One pulse to perfect rectangle

That's it.

(if you compare to, say, a Youtube synth demonstration video, add mandatory overdrive, delay and reverb to Repro-1)

Thank you Urs,

Makes perfect sense

[Romain Rousseau]

(not a pie chart, but only issues/tasks within a sub-project...)

Just a question, Urs.
I read "Validate MPE support". Will Repro-5 be fully MPE compatible, so I'll be able tu use it with a ROLI seaboard for example?

[pdxindy]

Just a question, Urs.
I read "Validate MPE support". Will Repro-5 be fully MPE compatible, so I'll be able tu use it with a ROLI seaboard for example?

I don't think so... The standard for MPE Timbre is CC74 which the u-he synths up until now do not support and I see no evidence that is changed in RePro-5.

On my Linnstrument, I can set Timbre to be any CC value I choose. I use CC1 (modwheel) for the Y axis. So with my Linnstrument and Logic, the u-he synths work correctly on X/Y/Z axis.

Does the Seaboard support user set value for Timbre?

Bitwig requires CC74 so the u-he synths do not fully work with it. That is why I am using Logic for now. RePro-5 does have the +/-48 pitch range. Bitwig also requires that. Logic + Linnstrument can handle 24.

The u-he synths also do not support release velocity which is one of the 5 poly modulators sent by the Rise and Linnstrument. It's the least important of them, but would still be nice to eventually have.

[DuX]

Does everybody thinks the Cat SMR II is really worth emulating? You must be kidding me. It's just another standard 2 oscillator thingie. Booooooooooooooooooring. You could say the same about Moog Prodigy and plethora of other cheap analogue synths of the time. All I can say: stop the madness already! Enough is enough.

We need modern synths. We have computers now and everything is possible. Why restricting the synths? I'm all for recreating Voyetra 8, for example. But only because it's seriously capable synth with tons of modulation options.

We need an analogue sounding 3-osc synth, but modulatable in every possible way. That's it. I think Urs could understand what I'm saying.

Enough of 2-osc analogue emulations with restrictive modulations, please! Take a look at modular synths - that's the future. No bounds on modulation possibilities!

I say forget about the old stuff, go ahead with the new stuff!

Just my 2p.

[ghettosynth]

Does everybody thinks the Cat SMR II is really worth emulating? You must be kidding me. It's just another standard 2 oscillator thingie. Booooooooooooooooooring.

Do you own a Cat? The thing that's interesting with the Cat is that it is, AFAIK, one of only two non-modular monosynths with a 2040 based VCF. the other being the RSF Kobol. What would be gained from modeling the CAT, other than a cool as f**k odyssey like synth, would be a good model of the 2040 which would, IMNSHO, be great in Diva and/or ACE/SuperACE2000, or whatever it ends up getting called. The Cat is probably my favorite monosynth. In my opinion there's nothing as cool as FM modulation of a 2040 in software ATM.

I'm not a purist. I would love to see this Repro kind of pairing done again with the CAT. A mono/poly bundle, price at $149 out of the gate if you must, where the monosynth really pushes the boundaries and the poly variant gives people something that never existed.

[pdxindy]

I say forget about the old stuff, go ahead with the new stuff!

I'm happy to have both...

after Zebra 3

[spunkmuffin]

To me the CAT sounds super thick. So if the CAT sounds like an elephant, a poly CAT would sound like a herd of elephants. I can hardly imagine that. Kind of scary.

Anyway...Repro first, then Zebra.

I see Repro 5 might be getting a sequencer.

edit: I just checked again and the CAT sounds nothing like an elephant.