resonance is barely resonant at all giving it a very week filter. I guiss I was expecting more oh well for the same price you could get a JUNO-6 with a midi retrofit kit and WAY phatter sounds! the JX3P is an analog synth that dont sound analog. Must admit though it looks kool.

for it. I think the presets are suprisingly good as far as presets go, and I

like how the knobs on the PG-200 are all condensed and "right there". As far as sounds go, I mostly find myself getting slightly out of tune "eastern"

instruments out of it. I like the sustained floaty noises and bright "plink"

electronic piano sounds too. People are fond of saying this synth is thin and weak, and it is! But weaknesses

can be strenghts. If you had 3 synths going in a song, and they were all big

macho fat-ass 4-oscillator reverbed reso-pads, I think it would be pretty damn

cacophonous. It's just a part of the palette. I like the thin less-overbearing

sounds that come out of this thing. Cheap polyphony is what I needed, so I bought this. It has a limited MIDI

implementation, but I don't care. I don't really do MIDI. You can laugh at me

all you want, but I LOVE the sequencer on the JX-3P! Using onboard sequencers

makes me feel special. I program some stuff in it, and program a sequence on

the second channel of my 202 so that the gate pulse triggers 16th note advances

through the 3P's sequence. Construction-wise, I hate all of the metal buttons (I like the 808/Jupiter kind.)

and the knobs on the PG-200 slip off WAAAAY too easily, but all of mine are still

there. I do love how the PG has those nifty magnetic pads, though! It's not

going ANYWHERE! I just always have to be careful and keep it away from my computer. When playing with it, I do wonder why anyone would design a synth without

portamento. Another ADSR would be nice, too. But, it was a "lower end" synth

when it came out, and that's exactly what it is now. But it's GOOD! If ya want, you can hear two clips of me doing things with my 3P.

first midi synths about. As it has 2 oscs, the sounds are pretty good, twice the

power of a juno106!...but the envelopes lack the attack of a juno. Strings are

a strong point, as are sweeping pads. Without it's PG200 programmer it sucks big

time. The little step sequencer is good fun for abit of knob twiddlin...but thats

about it. Overall ....BUY BUY BUY, very cheap and nice sound for the money