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kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 8:37 pm

I've always loved impOSCar but tbh was quite underwhelmed by v3. There's not much new in there that was useful for me. Loads of really good presets, but otherwise....meh. I'm not a fan of wavetables, and what wavetable it has is limited. The upgrade was cheap enough to be OK but not really what I'd call value....but yeah XMod would be good. ImpOSCar4 should be due in around 2036?

Korg Supporter · Post by **Korg Supporter** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 9:08 pm

kritikon wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 8:37 pm I've always loved impOSCar but tbh was quite underwhelmed by v3. There's not much new in there that was useful for me. Loads of really good presets, but otherwise....meh. I'm not a fan of wavetables, and what wavetable it has is limited. The upgrade was cheap enough to be OK but not really what I'd call value....but yeah XMod would be good. ImpOSCar4 should be due in around 2036?

I love impOSCar for the filter and how its unison sounds really nice. I'm not sure if I want to sell it, because I paid $60 for impOSCar 2 and $40 for the upgrade. Not many synths I own have stereo voice unison. Hive only has oscillator unison.

TechHaus · Post by **TechHaus** » Wed Jun 24, 2026 11:11 pm

New PJ Harvey track with her credited on a Prophet 5

(barely on topic)

Written by PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey: Prophet-5, vocals, percussion
Damien Quintard: Drum programming, mixing, production
Dario Marianelli: Orchestral arrangement and conductor
The Miraval Orchestra
Professor Brian Cox: Juno synth bass
George Cox: Percussive bass guitar
Recorded at Miraval Studios, Provence, February 2026

Echoes in the Attic · Wed Jun 24, 2026 11:21 pm

kritikon wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 8:14 pm I'm getting closer to buying it. The clincher is the XMod stuff. None of their other synths with it sounded interesting enough on their own to hook me (obie stuff is just too bland imo), but this has XMod attached to at least a reasonable enough sounding synth. Without the XMod I don't think I'd buy it. I'm in the same boat as Wagtunes - never bought a hw Prophet in the past and dunno why particularly. I assume this is a good emulation (GForce usually is) but it wouldn't make me want to buy a hw Sequential. I've mulled over getting a Fourm, but tbh this makes me think twice. At least Fourm has a filter drive. Do no Prophets have filter drive?

If GForce did some emulation of character synths with XMod I'd probably instabuy. E.g. would love Imposcar to have XMod, or for them to make some Yamaha CS emus, or a Jupiter6, Polyvoks etc. XMod is quite a selling point. Just a bit sad that they pick so many boring synths to emulate (I know I might be in a minority with that view)

The OB-X sounds awesome though. And actually the Oddity and Minimonsta are both worthy as well. All with XMod.

DiodeLadder · Post by **DiodeLadder** » Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:03 am

By the way, Repro-5 tweak page has a setting for oscillators called "P5 Old". According to the manual, this is a more detuned version of the regular P5 mode. Maybe that'll work for some people.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Jun 25, 2026 5:10 am

DiodeLadder wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:03 am By the way, Repro-5 tweak page has a setting for oscillators called "P5 Old". According to the manual, this is a more detuned version of the regular P5 mode. Maybe that'll work for some people.

I just did a very deep comparison of Repro-5 and Prophet-5, and it was no contest: Repro-5 sounded a lot better to me, in every way, and especially when pushed. As for extra modulations, I use the CLAP version in Bitwig, so I can do basically the same things, and more.

GForce Sequential Prophet-5