Excellent synthesizer in it's own right.... But.... Not a bit like the ARP Oddysey

Love the modulation mixer. It's not been done on that many synthesizers. It almost gives the impression on a modular - without all the hassle of cables and sockets that would eventually start to crackle and go intermittently open circuit.

Pros - nice and stable thanks to a complete chipset designed just for synthesizers designs. Cons - When one of the chips goes down, which, to be fair would be a long time ago, the whole instrument is pretty much scrap.

Unless a good engineer could redesign that specific section. I used to keep all schematics of these sort of mods. I do believe that the chipsets for these synthesizers have once again been brought back to life and the foundries have started up again. This will be.great for the second hand market once again. To own any synthesizers of this age, you either need to know a very good engineer, or you would need to have the knowledge to modify these beasties. Come to think of it, to own a studio and engineer it yourself, you (should be) just the sort of engineer to keep one of these of these on it's feet.

the only monosynth you need if you cant find or afford an obie two voice, ob1, kobol, syrinx

does a 303, does a deep sub, does electro arps/seqeuncing, does moogy, does arpy, does the monopoly chord memory sub octave sound, plus its great at thunder and zaps. pretty solid tuning, lots of cv/gate in and outs with trigger. fairly robust and not finicky. a solid synth, i guess thats why theyre now $1500-2000 cdn/us. in case you didn't know, millenials...we (gen-x) old timers used to pay 350-600 for these back in the ancient olden days of 1993.

One of the absolute best

This is a marvellous synthesizer. Probably the best monosynth ever made after the Minimoog. It can handle pretty much anything, from smooth moogy leads to filthy bass and extreme effects. Everything you dial in sounds good, and the sequencer and arp are simple but inspiring. If you need a monosynth and can't afford a Minimoog, this is the one to get.

All in one synth for everything

Crappy keys suffering from double or triple triggering but soundwise it could be the only machine you ever need because it delivers any basic sound in outstanding quality. Fast envelopes, a strong filter which opens up to the highest highs and resonates over the entire audio spectrum, very flexible modulations, sync, fm (with a character similar to my ARP2600) and lots of other goodies. Vince Clarke was right to choose it as one of his favorite machines.

My favourite synth

this is my favourite synth in my collection, it produces some wicked bass sounds and is a right staple within my collection. I wish I had the the pro 5, but I couldn't afford it last time I saw one on ebay. I have the pro 5 VST which is pretty cool, but the sound is very much different from the synthesizer in the flesh! .

Favorite Monosynth

I had it for a long time and then sold it like a chump. I regret everything. I need to get another but the price is so much higher now. Maybe the clone will be ok, maybe not. Maybe I need to get another one. I still cry every night missing my Pro One.

Pro-1

At the studio we use it mostly as a bass synth but also for arpeggios.