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after a year, how did it work out

@@CabalisOrder Idk about him but I'm really thinking about selling mine to fund the Prophet 6 I originally wanted. Rev 2 is a great synth but I should've followed my gut. I wanted a VCO synth with that classic vintage sound. Rev 2 gets kinda close but it's just not the same.

@@_EightySix It took me about a year but I can say I finally found my style on it. It took a while. And I was going to trade it in multiple times for an ob6 but I finally am absolutely in love with this REV2.

I want to like this synth for its features and price but man that Prophet6 is tickling my nuts

@@Massproduce201 it grows on you. You need to dive deep on it to make it your own. After you pass that phase, you fall in love with it. It took me about a year. For me this still sounds fatter than most vst plugins, and I own most of them: diva, repro-5, etc.

what about after two years? I'm getting confused on choosing between it and OB& or the prophet 6

@@GigiDAmico I still have this synth and I'm not giving it up. It's a good one.

Tommy Varekai don’t know what you ended up getting, but having owned a sub and now owning a rev 2, don’t bother with the Moog. Especially if you want pads.

I've got both and it was a great decision!

Trust me it sounds A LOT better for real than what youtube gives

It sounds better in the flesh than this demo, or YT can ever show.

buy some proper headphones!

+marcoballa tu sei di parte! Hai il P08!;)

Yeah! Today you can play your Rev2!;)

It’s amazing!

yes! much power and better sounds in the Rev2!

the OB6 it's a different synth..but are both amazing!;) they don't overdub each others!;)

My favorit is definetively the rev 2. The ob6 and p6 seems to be very boring for me. I did not felt in love with those machines. But i love my rev 2. I'ts just fantastic.😏😄

That's great U RH ! I love my OB6 and REV2-16 equally. The OB6 has "that sound", the REV2 has all those possibilities and lots of voices. I also adore my vintage Minimoog D, and I like the Behringer Deepmind 12 very much too. We're lucky to live in an era where those fantastic analog machines are popular again.

Yes, indeed. The analog synthesizers are back. The digital are not so great but they became very popular and trendy in the 1990´ies. Nobody wanted analog synthesizers anylonger that time. A music shop sold me in 1986 a Prophet 5 rev 2 very cheap(1300 euro) comparing to nowadays prophet 5 prices. I have also a lovely Roland JP4. Today Almost everybody wants old analog synthesizers from the 70 and 80´ies. They have a incredible terrific warm sound comparing to many of the modern synthesizers today.

Agreed. Yet the Nord Lead has proven to be the exception to the rule. Maybe the DX 5 too.

2 years later ghosted

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yes! only internal EFX!;)

Victor Roy n

The device is Sipario by lab4music, www.labmusic.it . You can use it for different function, in this video i’ve used sipario for changing preset, surely better option than dive into 1000 presets with an encoder

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better the 16 voices! ;)

DKS SYNTH LAB Cheers, mate! Just ordered the 16 voices, cannot wait for it 💜

All improvised ;)

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Grazie! Si ho provato anche il prophet 6 e possiedo OB6 :) sono un po’ diversi tra loro rev2 e p6, io al tuo posto andrei su p6 ho valutato di aggiungerlo al mio setup più di una volta

No, only some.. ;) i’ve used many presets

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Sipario midi router, (www.lab4music.com) i’ve programmed into sipario the program change, using simply msb and lsb parameter for any sound. ;)

Nothing, only changed brand from dave smith instrument to sequential ;)

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@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB ✌️😬

They are both great, with summit you have the digital osc’s and more flexibility with sounds, with rev2 (buy the 16voice and not the 8 voice) you have great analog sounds and the prophet sounds!

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB thank you for the reply. Which do you think would team up with a polybrute better?

if you love the prophet sound you can buy the rev2 or a Prophet 6 used (better in my opinion)

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB Thanks for replying 👍

“False.” - Dwight Schrute

Timothe Catlin tell him to prove it😂

​@@instrumentalistjade8367 Good point. I like both and use both and what i found out is you tend to use a lot of effects on a VST to get it to sound more colorful and give it a bit more character to make it sound less digital. sometimes people even modulate the detune by a couple of cents with an envelope or an LFO to get those slight imperfections as well. so at the end of the day your actually trying to emulate what a analogue synth sounds like and does. on an analog synth, you have that sound straight of the bat as far as color is concerned and for some reason VST effects like chorus delays and especially reverbs sound ridiculously good on an analog synth. they tend to complement each other. where sometimes on a VST they can actually make the sound more digital sounding and less organic. It depends what music you make though to be honest. both have their strengths. You can definitely tell though if you use only VSTs or you only use Analogue to make your tracks. its the music which doesn't make it matter so much.

I’ve used sipario (now SiparioX) by lab4music, you can change sounds and banks with two encoders on the right side of the display

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB Handy. But quite expensive. Would I be able to put for instance Hydrasynth banks in it too?

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No.

it absolutely does not sound better than the OB6. I played an OB6 at the Sweetwater showroom and it was a lot more organic sounding and had a better sounding filter.

indeed .ob6 is the strongest DSI imoa

I know guys, I was trying to sell my Rev 2 at the time. ;) Prophet 6 (and OB-6) is way better. That said, they are still not as good as vintage synths. No DSI is. And I stand by the Korg statement, it sounds like shit. OB-6 is great, but I honestly prefer the Prophet 6's overall tone and abilities. OB-6 has a similar problem to the prologue, too fizzy, too open all the time, it gets a bit grating. The OB actually reminds me of the Rev2 a bit in that it can't close down the sound properly (rev2 in 2 pole mode), and in 4 pole mode the Rev2 is just piss weak, but Prophet 6 has real power (just has a slightly clinical nature in some respects but only vs good vintage synths). Overall though, P6 being my favourite, I'm done with DSI. I hope Roland make a new VCO analog, Roland are the most musical synth makers on earth but they've lost the plot lately with System 8 and plastic fake emulations. JD-XA wasn't bad but not quite enough.

The OB6 is great but totally different sounding. Its pure analog but only has 6 Voices instead of 16 and a filter without self oscilation.

Is the same instruments except for 8 voice extra. And you can buy a rev2 8 and add the extra 8 voice later.. (not really cheap) but no hardware difference from rev2-8 and rev2-16

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB thanks ! Im gonna get this one, this weekend 🤟😬

cheaper you can buy the desktop version or 8 voice version! the summit cost around 2000 €/$

DKS SYNTH LAB i just bought an 8 voice desktop rev2 for $900 - am I going to be ok? My sanity is fraying with all my recent gear purchases

@@ryanpalma5947 where did you get it for $900?

yes! much better! and in the split/dual mode you have 8 + 8 voice instead of 4 + 4

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@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB sisi.. ah ok. Gracias!!

Nope, a new custom pack for Rev2 will be available next year! :) work in progress ;)

Sono diversi ed entrambi molto belli, diciamo che dipende se ti basta monotimbrico con 6 voci direi ob6, se ti servono 16 voci, bi timbrico con split-layer e più modulazioni Rev-2. Ob6 è sempre il mio preferito :) ma probabilmente live porterei rev2-16

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB grazie mille!!!

@Spiral Architect why'd you get mad 😂

@@thegreaterconundrum Oh I'm not mad. Just sharing my subjective opinion. Other people seem to like it, so it can't be bad. It's just not for me.

@@Robbinsffxi i dont know why i thought you got mad lmao your comment wasnt even angry

no! :D but this is better than prologue 8, actually i have the Sequential OB-6 and Roland Jupiter-X for this type of synth ;)

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB Yes if you have the 0b6 then that makes sense. I used to have the ob6 and it sounds amazing, but sadly i had to sell it a few years back and ive yet to get another one and I am not sure I want to spend that sort of money now. So im pretty sure im gonna get the rev2.

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB What made you sell it?

Two different instruments ;)

And a Peterbilt is more powerful than a pool vacuum. What's your point?

@anthony patterson You have to work on your troll recognizer skills ;)

Agree

Concordo, molto meglio lateralmente rispetto alla meccanica ;)

@@DKS-SYNTH-LAB si, ho una mezza di idea di comprarlo, perchè come strumento è strepitoso ma, appunto sono frenato dalla scomodità delle due wheels lassopra. Magari è una mia paturnia o una scarsa capacità di adattamento ma, insomma... quando si suona bisogna anche essere piuttosto comodi. O no?

But it also lacks tuning stability, seriously I had to retune it like every couple minutes. While this is a rock solid performance machine.

noob

@@TheArchiveOfWonder have you updated the firmware? no tuning issues for the last 2 years