My keyboard is the membrane model. I took every key apart and carefully seperated the plastic containing the two metal pieces that touch when the key is pressed. I used a x-acto blade to scrape both surfaces to eliminate dirt and accumulated crap. Put it back together, and the keyboard seems to be working ok. If your wooden panels are scratched, just reverse them, put the right on the left and vice versa, then spray some furniture cleaner and you have a beautiful synth!

Also, if you have a tr606, you can program a sequence or a arpergio in the pro-one, and trigger it with the tom trigger on the 606, tap in the toms in the 606 and the pro one will play the notes at desired steps. Just use a 1/8 to 1/4 cable from the tom trigs out to the gate/clock in on the pro one. So if you have a pro one, go get a 606! Oh yeah, I have my 606 synced to din, then to the drumstation, so basically this lets you intergrate a old synth into the newest midi rig. I just played a live show in this way and it worked awesome! Email me if you want more info.

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Aside from that however the Pro One is my favorite old school monosynth on the planet, and I own quite a few. This is -the- machine for spaced out whacky sounds. It's a soundtrack for a 50's B-movie science fiction epic in a box. The only synth of comparable pricing and functionality that surpasses this little guy in sheer weirdness would have to be the Korg Mono/Poly (thanks to the aptly named "Effects" section and its whup-ass arpeggiator).

I've also found that the Pro One is pretty fly at creating Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg-esque high pitch lead lines, and when coupled with a delay processor you can get some nice Depeche Mode sounding basslines.

It's not the most diverse sounding synth on the planet, and pretty much everything you do on it will have what I refer to as the "Pro One Hum". Not an actual audible hum, but in other artists songs I can pick out sounds made on a Pro One, they all just have a certain hard to describe similarity to them, not that it in any way hinders the usefulness or coolness of the machine.

For the price you'd be hard up to find a better analog synth for the money (virtual analogs included).

If anyone has a suggestion, please let us know, since we're quite fond of this li'l monster.

It has a lot of character. It feels like a cheap plastic keyboard, yes, but it sounds wonderfull (Sh101, anyone?). No sample and hold, but the filter sounds wonderful and it as external input.

A lovely pair of oscillators, too.

i love that machine!!