gadgetprop wrote:Hey, thanks for the reply, the P6 is super sweet! One day...!
Every synth has their limitations, that's for sure. Sometimes those limitations can be sources for creativity. Don't get me wrong, I still love breaking out the trusty moog and cranking the filter overdrive, but the W2 is also so inspiring to jam on it, it can get so deep so quick and back again. It's nice when a synth can go from tight snaps to massive reverb land with the turn of the wheel, with 4 simultaneous arps with different time divisions going around in crazy clockwork counter-rhythms! The tension on the mod stick reminds me of playing a guitar when bending, I like that you really have to dig into it a bit.
I also love the Nord pitch bender. As wheels go, I think the Prophet6's pitch wheel is one of the easiest to precisely control, which is funny because when you play it there is not a lot of tension on the spring and you'd think it'd be harder to be super accurate with it, but it works really well in practice at least for my fingers! Anyway, there really is nothing like the Nord bender, especially for vibrato it is unmatched. And in many ways the Nord is a far deeper synth than the Prophet. Both have advantages and disadvantages. If the bug in the Nord wasn't there (see above post for that info) I would pick the Nord over the P6 without needing to think much at all. I don't personally have the budget to own a whole room full of synths and the Nord becomes even more useful with that information.
I really do hope that the issue I described above gets fixed, because for the short time I did own the Nord, I could really have seen myself keeping it and pairing it with something like an Electro for keyboard sounds. That would make a great little keys rig for me.