First the look, it has been some divide feelings for some because of the light maple wood end panels. I enjoy them and they look very appealing when you see them in real and not in video / photo.
Then the interface, it's very easy to get an overview of all the knobs and parameters. The knob-caps are in plastic which is something I didn't expect. The knobs that are bi-polar are easy to turn, the octave knobs for the oscillators goes with a smoth and gentle tactile feeling when you move them and they are endless encoder type of knobs. The rest of the potentiometer knobs are a bit hard to turn before they get "runned in" which is similar to the feeling of the PRO3. So expect the filter-cutoff knob to be hard to turn also and it's a bit easy to slip when the knobs are plastic.
The sound and the filter. It's a wide range of sounds you can create with this. Pay attention to the 2 pole mode which gives the synth more flexible usage together with the 3rd oscillator that can be set in "LFO-Mode" an advice is to try set the velocity response to setting number 6 and try play around with velocity on AMP and Filter and you will be suprised how expressive your patches can become on this analogue machine. Also notice that this synthesizers filters resonance is a dream. I think it has a unique sound when you reach into the early stage of self oscillation.
My rating of this transistor-ladder type of poly is basically 5 / 5. The build quality is top notch. The only thing I feel I think could be a bit better but it's more of a personal taste i guess is the knobs that they have plastic caps and are hard to turn in the beginning before being "runned in". But thats a smaller problem when the rest is perfect and the sound is what I like from it.
