This thing is amazing... That's all you need to know!

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Im Vergleich zum Vorgänger bringt die neue Version unter anderem eine neu aufgebaute Oberfläche, eine dritte Hüllkurve, Änderungen an Filtern und Effekten, neuen Bass Line Modus usw. mit. Die Presets sind gefühlt etwas besser und liebevoller erstellt als beim Vorgänger, häufig sehr kräftig mit Effekten gewürzt und eher für EDM zu gebrauchen. Irgendwie macht alles ein wenig einen "hochgezüchteten" Eindruck. Klassisch geprägte Presets findet man eigentlich gar nicht.Im Software-Editor wurden die FM-Regler vergessen. Am Gerät finden sich Fehler in der Modulationsmatrix. Geblieben ist der Registrierungszwang (der den Wiederverkaufswert mindert), um an Firmware-Updates zu kommen. Für diesen Vendor-Lock-In gibt es Sternabzug. Backups können ausschließlich mit der Software des Herstellers erstellt werden, sprich sobald der Hersteller diese nicht mehr pflegt sind keine Backups mehr möglich. Wer eine zukunftssichere Investition vornehmen möchte, kann auf den Pro 3 setzen, der ist allerdings um einiges teurer.Im direkten klanglichen Vergleich zum Vorgänger können nicht alle, aber doch viele Patches fast identisch nachgebaut werden. Für mich ist der Unterschied nicht groß genug, weshalb die Maschine zurückgeht.Wer einen monophonen Synthesizer mit Modulationsmatrix, Effekten sowie Speicherbarkeit sucht, der zudem nicht nur zahm, sondern auch aggressiv klingen kann, bekommt hier sehr viel Synthesizer, im Rahmen der Black Week sogar für recht wenig Geld. Wer klassische Synthesizer-Sounds sucht, muss sie sich selbst erstellen, vom Hersteller oder Drittanbietern gibt es leider nichts. Wer lieber eine Version mit guter Tastatur haben möchte, kann sich auf dem Gebrauchtmarkt den Vorgänger mit Fatar-Tastatur und sehr gut spielbaren Handrädern beschaffen.

Un grain original, une prise en main rapide, une grande facilité d'utilisation. Bravo !

I’m a songwriter and I like to produce my songs so I can play them for my family and friends. To that end, I have an Ensoniq SD-1 keyboard, which is a wavetable-based synth, an Alesis drum machine and the Arturia Pigments software synth. I have other music making equipment, but those three things are the baseline I’m coming from as I venture into the analog synth world.Now, honestly, I’ve never been much tempted to have an analog synth because mostly what you think of is those sine, triangle, or square wave bleeps and bloops reminiscent of playing Pong. But in my line up, even though the SD-1 is capable of 6 voices with 32-note polyphony, I often wish I had more ability to inject other sounds. So when the opportunity to get an analog synth came up, I jumped on it. I thought at least I would have another sound source, however simple it might be, as long as the Midi implementation was sufficient for me to drive it from Logic or Ableton. I had no idea what a gold mine I had landed on, this thing is amazing.So, first of all, it’s true, it does have those bleepy kinds of sounds, if you want that, but that’s only the beginning of the story. From there you hit the filters (an OTA and an SIS type which I had to Google), then, not sure of the order here but, the envelope generators and the effects. There is also a modulation matrix that allows you to modulate the generated sounds using up to 16 sound sources routed to 16 destinations.For me, all of that was pretty overwhelming so I spent quite a bit of time reading the user manual to learn how to sculpt sounds and, as a poetry professor once told me, get past the frogs in the well, down into the water.But the user manual doesn’t really take you that far. It describes all the buttons and knobs but after a couple of readings, I still didn’t appreciate the depth of this machine. It wasn’t until I watched a bunch of Youtube videos by what appear to be professional synth reviewers, that I saw how unadventurous I was being. Really, do yourself a favor and watch some of those reviews, you might be amazed at how fluid some people are at tweaking oscillators, envelopes, filters, etc. to get to a sound they like, and then sequence it into some cool rhythm or melody. It’s an inspiration you won’t get from the manual.Back to the box, I was really concerned about whether the Midi implementation was going to work. The manual says every knob and button sends Midi CC out and responds to the same coming in. I haven’t tested the inbound side yet but what I did do is hook the UNO Synth up to my M1 Mac with Ableton Live running, and test whether each button press and knob twist showed up in Live. I can report that they do with the caveat that the sequencer buttons don’t seem to do it unless you press the shift button, and then they won’t trigger twice in a row. So you have to push another sequencer button in order to trigger a prior one again and it has to be related to the first one in the functionality of the sequencer. For instance, the Up key wouldn’t be re-enabled by the 2Oct key, but it would be by the Down key. My thought was I would use that bottom row of buttons as a sort of control surface to trigger clips in Ableton but I don’t think it’s going to be as straight forward as I thought, if it works at all.Of course the other thing to check is that the device responds to Midi note messages, but I had some initial trouble getting this to happen, partly because I was trying to use Ableton Live and don’t know it very well. So I was simply assigning the UNO Pro to one of my Midi tracks and trying to get the synth to produce sounds. Maybe that could work in some configuration but sending notes out to All-Channel, or any specific channel, didn’t do it. I finally had success by assigning the UNO Pro X Editor to the track instead of the synth directly, and that got the music going.One pleasant surprise was that it is easier to audition sounds on the synth by having a Midi loop running in Ableton Live and using Live’s Midi track “Launch” parameter to send program changes to the synth. With the bank set at 1 you can send program changes from 1 to 128 simply by selecting that button and using your up or down key to go thru the program numbers. With each change the UNO Synth Pro X immediately loads the sounds and sequence for that program number, so you don’t have to wait for the sequence to loop like you do when you’re running the sequencer on the synth. You can also double click that program change button and enter a number directly to jump to a new sound, which is easier than using the synth’s data knob to dial it up. So, obviously, even though the UNO Synth Pro can produce only 1 sound at a time, you can put program changes into your Midi tracks and switch among all the available sounds at will.Speaking of 1 sound at a time, I have to admit I don’t fully understand the term “paraphonic” as it relates to this synth. The way I understand it from reading the manual, if you want a polyphonic sound, you have to set up each of the 3 oscillators to have the same configuration as each other, then you can press up to 3 buttons on the keyboard, and you will get a chord. Even if you don’t config all the oscillators the same, you’ll get 3 sounds. What they don’t say is what happens if you push a 4th button? Does the pitch playing from the first oscillator get reset to the new 4th pitch? I tried testing this and what it sounded like was that the 4th key press just retriggers the 3rd note without changing the pitch. I’m not certain of this and wish they would describe the process in detail so driving it from an external sequencer can be done correctly.There is so much more I could go into but no amount of text is going to convey what a great bunch of sounds this synth can produce. 3 oscillators produces a lot more sound than you might expect, then combine those with filters, envelopes, effects and modulation, and you get a really rich set of sounds. If you don’t know much about analog synthesis, like me, then you have 128 built-in sounds to start with that you can bring up in the editor, take apart and see how they were assembled.There were a few places I was left mystified while doing that. What I did on one of the sounds was, with the sequencer running, turn down the level of each oscillator to 0 to where I should have nothing coming out. Instead, I was getting a series of tapping sounds coming out. I was thinking it was the sequencer somehow producing artifacts, but not all the sequences associated with each sound do this. So maybe an effect was being modulated and producing artifacts?Another thing is the Bassline button, it’s supposed to get you some behavior akin to a 303 baseline (which I’ve never used, so I’m taking it on faith that it’s a fun old device.) There are some sounds that use that baseline mode so when you call them up, the button is lit up. If you then press the button to disengage it, the sound changes, as expected. But if you press it again, the sound doesn’t get restored to the original sound, you get a new 3rd sound. So if you want to exactly know what that button does, you can’t just toggle back and forth, you have to go write down all the settings, then toggle the button, then go thru all the settings again to see what changed. Not something I’m going to do anytime soon. Instead, like they say in the manual, just play with it and have fun.Overall, I’m totally stoked to have this synth. If they were asking me what could be better, I would say the oscillator waveforms should include sine waves, like the LFO does and the sequencer buttons should be fully Midi enabled so if I’m not using their sequencer, I can use the buttons to trigger things in Logic or Ableton. It won’t be a Push 3, but I could limp along with it I think.And finally, of course, the price. $500 is a lot for people to plunk down unless you are actually making money with music. When I did some price comparison shopping, the closest things I saw were the Roland SE-02 at $388, and the Arturia Microfreak at $345. I don’t know all the features of those boxes but judging from the ads, the UNO Synth Pro X looks like a better synth than either of those. The Microfreak has 17 paraphonic modes which includes some wavetable settings, so that’s probably awesome, but there’s only 1 filter vs 2 here, and the routing matrix is 5x7 vs 16x16 here. The next thing is the much more expensive Hydrasynth at $699. It has a bunch of touch pads on the front, like a Push device, 5 banks of 128 patch memories vs 2 here, 4 velocity sensitive pads and probably more. But if you don’t want to spend $500 for the UNO Synth Pro X, I doubt the Hydrasynth is going to work for you either. Based on these comparisons, I think a $400-$500 range for the UNO Synth Pro X is warranted, I just wish they would relax a little on that to get more people using it than they will get at $500.Overall, if you want to add some analog synthesis to your mix, I don’t think you can go wrong with this synth. The build quality Is great, as is the expansive set of knobs and buttons to keep most of the settings at or just below the surface. Just watch a bunch of Youtube videos on it if you’re not yet convinced.

For starters, what I’m not going to do in this review is go through the features and abilities of this synthesizer. There are many lengthy videos out there, by seasoned professionals, going into more detail than most of us can understand. If you are considering buying this, you should watch a few.With that said, a few thing people should know about this: First of all, this isn’t a synthesizer as in “an electronic keyboard.” It has a really simple one octave keyboard built in, and depending on what you use this for, you’ll probably want an external MIDI keyboard instead. What this is, rather, is a tremendously powerful synthesizer in the sense of being able to define all the details of a sound, then use it in music, by means of an array of settings that will likely make me dizzy for a good six months.It’s a marvel of density, with both synthesizer and sequencer in a package that easily fits in a backpack, and weighs about the same as a big sub sandwich. The controls are small and dense, but well organized and easy to navigate.If you know enough to understand what this device is, you’ll enjoy it and be challenged by it. It is truly a great machine.

J'ai du en retourner ma première commande car il manquait 2 vis au dos ! Rien que vraiment grave il était fonctionnel, mais par principe et quand on est maniaque (c'est un oubli du fabriquant, pas de filetage marqué dans le trou ce qui signifie qu'aucune vis n'a jamais été mise a ses 2 endroits)... Notons que le boîtier est vraiment très rigide et que ce module haute densité respire la qualité. Et il fonctionne en 5 volts ce qui est top !Sinon à réception, mise à jour firmware qui se fait en 2 minutes via USB sans aucune installation de drivers, juste un petit exe et le firmware en fichier séparé, ce que je préfère. Quand on connaît déjà la synthèse analogique on est déjà en terrain connu, tout est très intuitif, suffit de triturer les potards et aller dans les menus pour comprendre immédiatement la logique. Beaucoup de vidéos youtube qui donnent les manips pour s'y retrouver vraiment sans efforts. écoutez les presets, jouer a les modifier, correction des fausses notes du preset numéro 5 "Daft Punk - Da Funk" (lol) et le tour du propriétaire est fait.On peux configurer les entrées sorties synchro in/out, et même l'entrée audio en passe plat, et on se retrouve compatible avec les petits Roland Compact et autres Korg Volka...

The Good: First of all, rating of the synth itself is 4.5 stars. The synth is perfection. I love the sounds and ease of per-knob accessibility.The Bad: IK had low stock and the first one I received had a loose screw or piece of something rattling around inside of it. Annoying. Returned. Purchased a second one: maybe the first bad one was just a fluke? Received second one not in a shipping box this time. Sure enough one corner was bashed and the synth had a dent in the corner. It worked… but still… WTF is wrong with IK multimedia US, shipping an expensive piece of electronics without a shipping box or padding? Also If low on stock do they just send out defective returns? Last time I will be buying such an expensive piece of equipment on Amazon.