Repro-5 public beta (Repro V1.1)

[rightofway]

It’s a real head scratcher for me.
I’m a hardware synth guy and this and Repro 1 has me seriously wondering are we really getting to the point of negligible difference.
I kept listening for the normal flat “soft” tone of softsynths and I don’t hear it.
Had to start playing on some of the presets and I can’t play!
I couldn’t justify buying a Pro 1 unless I had to have the knobs.
I’d seriously been thinking of getting a Prophet 5 now I’m not so sure.
Love to hear the opinion of someone who has a “real” Prophet 5.
Best soft synth I’ve heard.
It sets a new standard.

[mholloway]

It’s a real head scratcher for me.
I’m a hardware synth guy and this and Repro 1 has me seriously wondering are we really getting to the point of negligible difference.
I kept listening for the normal flat “soft” tone of softsynths and I don’t hear it.
Had to start playing on some of the presets and I can’t play!
I couldn’t justify buying a Pro 1 unless I had to have the knobs.
I’d seriously been thinking of getting a Prophet 5 now I’m not so sure.
Love to hear the opinion of someone who has a “real” Prophet 5.
Best soft synth I’ve heard.
It sets a new standard.

+1

Really the only appeal of hardware at this point (for me) is the quite literal Hands On approach / feel.

Because sound wise...... I'm happy with RePro-5. It's "there." They did it.

And since I'm not about to drop 3k or whatever it would cost to satisfy a desire for 'hands on,' I will quite happily stick with U-He!

Amazing. The cost, in CPU, is of course quite extreme. But that's what my friendly Bounce function is for, I suppose!

This thing is a beauty, and unrivaled afaic in the virtual analog realm. Hats off to U-He!

-M

[mholloway]

Just a heads-up to the people who skip reading the manual (tsk tsk!)

the tweak control for "reallocate" voices is very, very important, and will drastically change the nature of your patch behavior re: voice detuning & panning for successive presses of the same note.

Also, the tweak for changing the noise output to LFO sync'd 'sample and hold' style output is pretty huge too!

short version: you should probably read the manual, like I just did Or at least, the tweaks page part of it!

happy RePro-5 release day everybody, it was worth the wait....

cheers!

[Elektronisch]

I have decided to do some small comparison between RePro 5, Pro 53 and Arturia V3.

While Repro 5 and pro 53 same recreated patches sound at least similar Arturia V3 sounds completely different. I really hope i forgot to turn some knob, because same patch final result between RP5 and Av3 is like day and night.

[Howard]

short version: you should probably read the manual, like I just did Or at least, the tweaks page part of it!

[Sound Author]

Sounds INCREDIBLE! But yeah, that CPU hit...

[mholloway]

While Repro 5 and pro 53 same recreated patches sound at least similar Arturia V3 sounds completely different. I really hope i forgot to turn some knob, because same patch final result between RP5 and Av3 is like day and night.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to learn that the Arturia product sounds different....

[EvilDragon]

It's actually more interesting that he found Pro-53 sounding similar to Repro-5, though.

There is a lot more weight in Repro-5 sound than Pro-53. I still love a ton of Pro-53 patches, though, and can't beat the CPU usage along with up to 32 voices. It can still sound good. But Repro-5 is MUCH better.

[Elektronisch]

While Repro 5 and pro 53 same recreated patches sound at least similar Arturia V3 sounds completely different. I really hope i forgot to turn some knob, because same patch final result between RP5 and Av3 is like day and night.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to learn that the Arturia product sounds different....

Well Pro 53 is like 15 years old at least and recreated Pro 53 patches on Pro 5 sound at least in the same area so i am very surprised because Arturia's Prophet has been updated few times

[Elektronisch]

It's actually more interesting that he found Pro-53 sounding similar to Repro-5, though.

There is a lot more weight in Repro-5 sound than Pro-53. I still love a ton of Pro-53 patches, though, and can't beat the CPU usage along with up to 32 voices. It can still sound good. But Repro-5 is MUCH better.

You got me wrong, the sound of the patch is similar (unlike Arturia's) not that the synths themself sound similar. Obviously they sound different, but not like day and night (at least by the sound if you compare same patches). And yes Repro 5 has alot more weight.

[stimresp]

Thank you Urs and the U-He team!

[onathanj]

Thank you Urs - it sounds really fantastic (for a Prophet;-)

In logic, it only uses thread 1-4 and nr 24 (on a twelve core mac pro). Nr 24 hits maximum quite easy, and result in crackles. Is Repro 5 by any chance not capable of handling so many threads? (Strange)

Any how - great work!

Thread 24 is likely the main audio thread. This is up to the DAW, not Repro-5.

Ok, but aren't the audio and cpu of Repro 5 suppose to be distributed over all 24 threads?

[zerocrossing]

Why does Urs always wait until he knows my daughter has a half school day for his releases?!

[Urs]

Ok, but aren't the audio and cpu of Repro 5 suppose to be distributed over all 24 threads?

No, a plug-in doesn't "see" what threads the DAW has, it just gets one to process on. It can only add a few threads by itself to distribute its processing. Likewise, the DAW doesn't "know" about the plug-in's threads, so it can only ever update its built-in CPU display going by the one thread it provides to the plug-in.

[mevla]

Looking forward for the Linux version !!