Quatschmacher

New stuff. https://www.sequential.com/product/take-5-compact-poly-synth/

Thanks. Would it have been possible to put an extra knob on top to control the onboard distortion level?

20 months waiting so far. Apparently my pickups have now arrived and my bass is third in the queue…

Thanks. Looks great. What’s the extra jack socket on the top to the left of the power inlet when looking at the back side?

Any chance you could share pics? That sounds really interesting and all stuff I’d love to have done to mine. Is the loop post-envelope detector? One other mod I’d seen was that the distortion trimpot was given a surface knob so it could be dialled in to taste.

I think I saw one go for £65 on here once. I think I paid about £85 for mine years ago.

The biggest leap I’ve made in actual keys playing is learning good pentatonic fingerings in all keys. I highly recommend Marius Nordal’s book “Wisdom of the Hand”. I got it and started working out if it at the end of last year and it has absolutely transformed my playing.

For learning what synth parameters do, this site is brilliant: https://learningsynths.ableton.com

Future Impact, no question. It’s also on a sale price until August 31st and works out at about £228 all-in posted to your door, direct from Panda: http://pandamidi.com/store/future-impact-v3-bass-guitar-synth It just reached full maturity with the latest update which added a brilliant patch-management tool to the editor. No better time to buy one. Though, as said, you can get some very attractively-priced keyboard synths these days.

I love mine and it has seen off many other excellent filters over the past four or five years or so that I’ve had it. They come up cheaply enough used - £80ish (or even less sometimes).

Predictable for me, but the Future Impact (mostly) stops me buying synth pedals (though I did buy a C4 when it launched). I actually haven’t bought a new pedal in ages (partly because the Octabvre III and OC-5 are nowhere to be found, but also because I’ve been getting very into keyboard synths).

Eventually, by me, yes, as that’s where I located the units. The problem is partly getting cross-border police cooperation, but there were other complicating factors.

The fact that’s that it’s across international borders causes complications.

As a follow-up to this, I managed to track three of these down. They ended up in the US so it’s likely that rest are there too.