Now with two of my three synths sorted out, and with nothing on the market right now that seems to bring what I need of the third and last synth, I have been thinking what i exactly would need... it is not really at all that easy, since Quantum and Pro3 will cover an enormous lot of synthesis ground already...
The Quantum gives FM, Wavetable, Granular, Regular sampler, Resonator and VA synthesis in the digital realm which cover almost everything, and more may be added in the future... it even has analog filters to boot... but even with all that, you can easily hear that Quantum is a hybrid... the missing real vcos is rather clear, and the digital front end sounds much like the typical Blofeld... polished and clinic with the analog tearing it up a bit... it is a magnificent synth, but I realized that for certain types of sounds, I would have to go for analog oscillators and a ladder filter.
This is where the PRO3 comes in... it will fill out that gap perfectly, and give me loads of other options due to its digital wavetable oscillator... it is litterally the perfect solution for me.
But that makes it even harder to decide for the third synth, since my requirement is that it fill a needed role in my setup, and there is not much left... one thing that would lure me is maybe a polyphonic analog synth with at least 16 voices, but I want vcos and discrete filters with a different character to what I allready have... and Curtis filters is out of the question. I want patch storage, built in FX and stereo outs plus a mod matrix. Built in Arp and Sequencer is a must too.
In essence, the REV2 is what come closest to the goal, but I do not want it with Curtis filters, so I thought, why not a Sequencial poly analog synth like REV2 that has 2 standard PRO3 VCOs with a sub oscillator per VCO... then make a VCF plugin system with a 16 VCFs on it, so that the user could buy the filter he likes most. Ladder, ob6, p6, SSI etc... maybe even others like ARP, Wasp, Polivoks etc. If the filter could be inserted like a cartridge it would be even cooler... people would want to have more than one cartridge. This also reduce the added cost of having more filter types in a polysynth etc.
I am sure Sequential could make it even better enginewise than the REV2 I only gave that as an example...
Keywords:
Deep engine
Exchangeable filter cartridge
VCOs
One function per knob philosophy (no dual timbral functionality please!)
High quality keybed plus desktop version
Built in FX