As someone who is in the market for a master keyboard that happens to be a synth as well the DM12 would be my pick. What it does, it does well enough to justify buying it as mostly a keyboard that has infinite tweakability in it's voice, rather than as the best synth ever made....cult classic kind of choice. With regards to the prices of the Prophet, it's clear synth players are totally out of touch with the price of acoustic instruments. A $10k synth?....that would only buy a decent small beginners harp. In fact my own harp cost me $3k over 25yrs ago and it's still a tiny, limited instrument that I have to make my own arrangements for because it's not capable of many fully chromatic pieces written for that instrument. It costs me $1k everytime I need to replace the strings. This cost versus features mindset only exists in electronic music making, in acoustic land we just accept that the instrument we want might only have the same features as all the others but cost 10 times as much for tiny differences in sound quality, projection, attack, appearance.

Thanks for the review. I just discovered the MV-1 and can't believe it's 3 years old now. How is the sample manipulation workflow, i.e., how user-friendly is it to deal with audio tracks and clips? Is slicing and cropping a nightmare or fairly routine? Or, better to process in software and import clean clips?

Where can I get the guide your using that describes all the different parameters for the 24 digital oscillators? It's not on the product page on Behringer's website.

Great video as always- purchased night before last and loving it, you couldn’t have a word with someone in Softube and ask them to stick their Model 80 Five voice on a Black Friday special please 🙏 Thank you

I have this pedal Starsky. The sound you made around 14.00m is top. I have this with a boss expression pedal. It is possible to programme the saturation, wow and flutter, repeat rate and intensity when your exp pedal is fully closed. When setting parameters, once you have set the first value, you can then select the values of saturation, wow and flutter, repeat rate and intensity for when your exp pedal is fully pressed (toe forward position) down. It can produce some really lush sounds that speed up and slow down by use of footpedal. In this format though the 'head setting' cannot be changed but nevertheless it gives punctuation to your synth voices while being hands free to carry out other tweaks across your equipment. It is worth the 300plus sobs to give that much more sculpting capabilities. Great pedal. Nice one Starsky.

thanks a lot for such a useful video in my miserable condition. HMRC is not at all being helpful in such regards, I really appreciate the gentle man for the video. I shall start the process now in appropriate manner. i was cracking my head past a week for such information. thank you man

Check out drum code 20.50 for the ultimate bass inspired by Reese..

Token of appreciation, Starsky! Sending gratitude from San Diego, California. I hope this is of some use to you somewhere some time. 😉🙏🏻🌊☀

I've had this for a few weeks now. Good points: easy sampling. I've used a cd/cassette line in and the inbuilt mic. Both work well! Not tried an external microphone. Sampler engines are fun, ADSR and filter are good, and connectivity is great. It's portable unlike old hardware samplers. Not so good points: not a fan of the inbuilt speaker, personally i think it misses basic effects, reverb, delay. It's possible they could be added in a firmware update. Only 1 LFO. Sometimes the connection between the unit and cloud is a little slow. Conclusion, i suppose the direct competition is the Akai MPC one or Key 37. These do offer more features. It's however a fun little sampler that has grown on me over the few weeks of using it.

My god! Did it ever get any better than this?

Now I dont feel like I’m missing out on the behringer clone

Track no 4 needs to be its own song. I dig that so much

Love your videos but this synth is not blowing my socks off. Its ok. The dreadbox stuff is more interesting at a better price.

This is a fantastic synth and worth the price. However I'd be the first to say editing hardware synth parameters using a laptop is truly the antithesis of using hardware...

Hi m8, in your opinion please rate Poly D , Monopoly , MS5.. 1, 2 then 3 please.???? Its a fair question. 🍻 👏 ❤

Nothing that couldnt be sorted on a decent mixing desks eq .. But shame on you ULI , stop thinking about the $$$$ and properly CALIBRATE your synths, which your customers are paying money for.

Thanks for the video, there is TONS of character in the patches you made.

Xm looks like a toy compared to System 8 :) Having RD sounds with those mini keys is hilarious. But probably good beginners synth.

Great explanation, will checkout your other videos thanks 👍

Now we need one for DX7’s

Sold an mks7 to Chris Ross of Wolfmother on eBay back in 2006. Thought it was a scam because he sent a money order from Australia but wanted it shipped to New York. Was right before their US tour.

great overview, I've been very curious about this, but it seems like it could have had a lot more modulation, or a few CV inputs to make it deeper. but it does sound really nice.

Great opening choon!

The price (1349) kills this synth. This is close enough to a lot of other pricey analog synths that I would rather spend a bit more

the PWM Mantis is nice Starsky but couldn't one cover the same sonic territory with the ol" Roland Sound Canvas SC-55, GM sound presets and a Roland MC-50 MK2 sequencer?!

Hi. Would you know how's the integration with MPC Beats? Thnx.

Is there a manual on the way? I must admit the lack of manual for such a quirky and original synth is one of the things that make me hesitant to take the plunge.

One thing to mention (that I had to learn the hard way after purchase) is that the current firmware has a bug in it that causes external clock sync (MIDI too) to be all over the place. Clock/Reset don't work correctly. You can sync the other way using the clock out from Scrooge but there's no reset out so you are forced to try and line up other sequencers manually for starting/stopping. You can trigger sounds externally in a pinch but then you lose all the cool morphing that their sequencer gives you. Kind of a crappy catch 22. Great, fun device but this issue is worth noting when you are plopping down $500-$600. Neutral have been VERY responsive and promise an update soon.

Hello Starsky, why your video are always blurry (not the bokeh effect, but the synth shoot are never clean) ? Also thanks for your review

Wow that's a nice looking design!

Beautiful machine..I have the software version but I would love this hardware but I bought a mini freak

It’s all fun and games until you open up the haken editor…

Great hybrid tones here. As far as looks, the side panels match my hair so I must get one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, it also, visually, kinda gives me Crumar Bit-99 vibes, but with more knobs.

Oscillator cross mod?? 🤔😂

Still got my og BassStation here but not really used it for 20+ yrs. It's not been the same since I accidentally plugged the wrong PSU in and blew DCO1.😂 Dems the breaks 🤷🏻‍♂️

Starsky i think you are better when you make Music (house, techno , trance, progressive etc ) with a Synth and show the sound versatility in that way more than a classic review

Does it send sysex and CC at the same time? I read the manual and little unclear how the CC TO SYSEX TRANSLATE works so you can hear the realtime changes and record them? can you send cc via the usb midi port at same time the sysex is going out the DIN to the synth? Or do you have to use the DIN thru on the synth to record back to the DAW?

Sounds awesome 👌

I saw this in a video from Actrade show with Dr. Mix and Anthony Marinelli and they were both very impressed. It definitely sounds cool.

8:32 now that sound is special. I can see this being a synth that inspires new genres, not just a.n.other analoguey synth. A bit like the way Are Friends Electric reset everyone's expectations synth music away from what it had been up to that point.

Great review/demo as ever Starsky .I love your cool glasses , where did you get them from ? Thanks.Reg.

Back in the 90's I worked for Toys'R Us we had a singing fish probably the same amount of memory. Who knew 100mb still excist this day.😂

Anyone have some thoughts about the utility of this synth for someone that already owns the Crave and the Edge?

The Morlocks got to mine.

Great vid. I'm in the market for some of this gadgetry.

Absolutely love your demo on 4:30 so simple but soooo good 👍

Superb 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

So the small one has black sides that are magnetic… I kinda understood it’s because you can have other colors?

I played this and met Paul Whittington from PWM at Synth East earlier this year and was impressed by both. The synth sounds unique and immensely inspirational while Paul was a thoroughly lovely chap. It’s definitely on my shopping list. Nice review Starsky 😊

Great stuff, been interested in this for a while