Somewhere behind the horizon there is a different, hidden reality, and only after I entered it did I find top quality, variety and inspiration in my PRO-3. All the gadgets, distortions, feedbacks and filter morphs won’t get you beyond the initial impressions the majority of people had about this synth when it came out – that it’s too harsh and metallic sounding (maybe let’s just cut all the nerdy words and simply say “unpleasant”). Using just the front panel will quickly get you many sounds which raise eyebrows and draw attention, but which I personally judge to be cliche, boring and ugly. But you must not be not complacent and you must not fall into this trap. Someone commented under my facebook post that Pro-3 screams “play me!”. You will think it’s an instant-gratification synth with tons of potential for easy patch-making. If you judge this book by its cover, or the front layer, you will instantly get the impression there’s a lot to have fun with. Why oh why? The painter / architect in me craves more colors and more elegant materials, but the skinflint in me does not want to pay the 20% premium for the Special Edition ) Sequential gives us gray panel, gray knobs, and gray plastic cheeks with a huge, cheesy logo engraved in them. Arturia also painted their Matrixbrute pavement-gray, but at least they furnished it with some wood to warm it up. All these shades of gloomy gray and the radioshack knobs must feel like an abomination to anyone who’s ever seen or touched a Korg Prologue or a Moog SUB-37. When I got it out of the box and placed it on my stand and looked at it in all its glory… I came to the conclusion this must be the ugliest contemporary synth (I have the standard version, not SE). Also, you don’t need any custom wavetables for my patches to work – just a standard Pro-3 unit. I did not use any external FX in the demo all the delays, reverbs, noises and other effects are part of the PRO-3 engine & mod matrix. The sounds are ready-to-use in music or can serve as starting points just pick the textures or dynamics that you like and easily fine-tune them to suit your exact taste or purpose. Some patches are bread & butter, some offbeat they’re the result of me trying to find the limits of the instrument. It’s a wide variety of sounds that are meant to inspire, make you look at the synth in a different light and give you a great choice of directions. There is no one style, because YOU decide what style these patches will be played in. Note: the patches will be quieter than factory patches. In other words, you have full freedom as to the memory locations / import destinations. You can put any of my bank into any of your User Banks (U1, U2, U3, U4) on your PRO-3. My patches come under the name “WCOG” in 2 soundbanks (A and B) saved as sysex files exported directly from my PRO-3. Of course all the drums & sequences are also stored as patch data, so you will have those too, and you can adjust them or bypass the sequencer and play the sounds by hand. You will receive all the sounds from all my demos plus extra (220 unique presets + their variations = 235 presets in total). You will receive a download link to your e-mail after the purchase (check your spam folder too). 9 0 ( USD) / €28.90 ( EUR) / £25.90 (GBP) – This platform works with credit & debit cards and / or PayPal.
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