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...so I'll add my 2cc on the P5 here too. I've been using a Rev3.3 for almost 10 years, and never had any problems with it. Well, it goofed up once and erased all the patches, but that was ONCE. And since the UI is so great and intuitive, I reconstructed my fav patches in a breeze.
Man, what can I say? Everytime I look at it, I fall in love with it again. The pots and switches are heavy-duty, the build is awesome. Mine has been great, tuning wise. Warm up, and retune after each set. I gig it occasionally. It misbehaved once (filter pot jitter made the sound gonk out in midst of a fiery solo spot), but hey, how ofter has my Fender Rhodes goofed up?
And the sound... oh gee... I'm almost reluctant to "rate" a synth whose sound is such a big part of my own musico-cultural past. It's just one of the perennial classic analogue polysynths -period. I've never made a sound on it I didn't like. Honestly. I love it most for leads, basses, and "uncategorizable" polyphonic patches. Pads tend to be almost too fat (yes, there IS such a thing as "_too_ fat") and dense to sit in a mix without EQing, since the P5 lacks a highpass filter like some of the Rolands. By themselves though, P5 pads have an almost monstrous cinematic quality -very moody.
Spare parts are rare but still around, and WineCountry offers support for them. Hey -which other analogue poly still gets support? How good is that?
It gets only my highest recommendations!
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