Okay, just got received the P5, today.… two initial questionable/concerned comments.
#1. Stepping the through all the presets, many many of the presets are distorted. We have never experienced this type of distorted-phenomenon out of a synth. The input gain into the SSL console is set to about -12: plenty of headroom so it’s not a signal-flow gain structure issue. For the majority of all the presets, the P5’s master volume sits comfortably at “5”. But, to eliminate the distorted presets, I have to turn the master volume down to about “2”. As I recall, my rev 3.3 was very punchy and ‘hot’, but it never experienced any type of output distortion (or preset distortion): no matter how cranked the oscillator’s mixer settings were set. So, I’m concerned about this.
#2. Turning on the UNISON doesn’t seem to stack all the 5 voices to create that ‘thick’ phat sound. Even though the patch becomes mono, it sounds like only 1 of the 5 voices are sounding. Actually, there is really no difference in tone or thickness when switching the UNISION button On/OFF. (Maybe the Rev 4 now allows the number of voices to be programmable per patch—and I am not aware of this?) One of the patches I came across actually dropped a fraction in volume when switching to Unison. Again, my rev 3.3 would always jump in volume a few dB’s and the sound would become thick-and-punchy when put into Unison. So, I’m concerned about this.
I did update the firmware to 2.0, but this didn’t resolve any issues.
On happy note
I LOVE the feel of the keybed!!! Love the spring-loaded pitchbend!
Huge improvement over the rev 3.3.