Had a DSI MonoEvolver, sold it got a S37, sold it picked up a SEPro3 it reminds me so much of the MEvolver! I can dial in patches so fast, the sequencer is amazing too!
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Mine are , and I love it. Much prefer tight knobs over loose.
It has a lot of that evolver flavor! Iām fortunate enough to have both and oh boy, the two of them together in sync is a thing of wonder.
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You obviously donāt have the SE editionā¦ Build quality including better resolution graphics than the normal Pro 3 is ridiculous good! and tilt function perfectā¦ Well worth the extra cost.
I Love looking at it much more than the SUB37 not that its really importantā¦ But it isā¦ LOL.
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Different strokes. Iāve always thought the SE edition looked a bit goofy and unnatural with the wood sides. I have the standard and I like that it looks a bit like a Pro One.
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Trueā¦ Absolutely nothing wrong with the Normal Pro 3 its Awesome, I just like the Tilt function and better screen printed graphics but either way I think Pro 3 is just about as good as a Mono synth gets!
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Now that the Minimoog reissue is out, itās eventually going to get compared to it. And as nobody else has asked yet, I may as well - how well does the Pro 3ās Moog filter mode fair against the D?
Not as goodā¦ But for me The Pro 3 is just way better overall for sound possibilities and yes IĀ“ve played my friends 2! Model Ds multiple timesā¦ Saying that if I could I would have both!
Do you need a Minimoog noā¦ Do you want one? Yesā¦
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To be honest, if youāre asking needs vs wants, then once you have a Pro 3, you donāt need any other monosynth because it does everything. But wantsā¦ thatās another question 
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My main moan on the Pro 2 is that the filter key-tracking doesnāt get slewed if you have glide on so you have glidey notes with a jumpy filter and it kind of sounds rough, especially on paraphonic patches.
I even tried routing the keyboard out via CV then back in to see if that would work but no luckā¦ Plus it used 4 mod slots since you have to double up to get enough depth so wouldnāt have been ideal really anyway.
Curious as to whether they changed that on the Pro 3?
I personally think that the pro-3ās ladder filter is horrible, I do not use it at all. Itās one of the few flaws in an otherwise almost perfect instrument
Hrm. In anycase, for some patches the ladder filter has a bit more of a wild character thatās harder to suss out of the others.
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In the mid aughts, I had a choice between a base model Moog Voyager and DSI MonoEvolver Keyboard. Yes the Moog was incredibly smooth, but the MonoEvolver had way more tones to discover, program, and play. I donāt miss my S37, and play my Pro3 every day! Nothing against Moog, I love them as a local North Carolina company, but they really need some fresh designs priced for mere mortals! I was glad they released their Moogerfoogers as plugins and picked them up on the launch sale. Enjoy this golden age before the next chip shortage or water war!
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The ladder filter seems the most āthrown onā of the 3. Iād have rather they just kept it similar to the pro 2 with the ability to run the two OTA filters in series or parallel and left the ladder off. The 4 pole ota is big and bold and the variable state filter is very harmonically interesting when you modulate that bad boy. The ladder just doesnāt do it for me either on this synth.
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All that being said, I just decided to focus on a ladder filter patch on my lunch break and it does sound pretty dang good on a mellow, paraphonic, saw based sound. The trigon 6 didnāt really appeal to me that much due to the ladder on the pro 3 but maybe this filter would be nice on a polyā¦
I fully agree. Honestly I would have been happy even if it just had the 4 pole ota as I use that 90% of the time. Itās just so good! It took me a while to warm up to the vari-state filter but Iāve become a fan now that Iām used to it (youāre right about modulation being the magic ingredient there).
The ladder is a bit underwhelming but I hardly feel like that matters in the case of the pro3. And for the sake of discussion, Iād keep my pro3 over a minimoog any day. Iāve played lots of them lots of times and while theyāre great they just donāt do it for me in the same way. Also, not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
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Is the silk-screening more resilient (to wear/scratches) than the vinyl overlay? I would actually have assumed the inverse (the overlay on the Matriarch and Grandmother holds up very well to wear, but that might be a different material). I also prefer the colors and aesthetic used on the vinyl overlay, and donāt love the way the wood on this synth looks.
But the tilt function does seem worth the extra price.
I couldnāt have not got the SE for the woodā¦ sitting alongside 3 Prophet polys and a Sub37, it would have stressed me outā¦and the tilt is superbā¦ Iāve had it in its most upright position every time Iāve used it.
Itās a heavy bugger though, the regular one wins that contest.
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Iām finding it hard to gel with the Pro 3, I canāt put my finger on what it is, but it seems to be lead me to places/sounds that are not me.
Iāll usually either INIT a synth or find a preset and tweak itā¦ and most of the time it leads to something underwhelming.
I donāt get this my Rev2 or Prophet 6ā¦ I usually find myself in good places with those.
Moog Sub37, same thing, I get results.
And the Analog Four mk2 is my favourite āletās see where I end upā mono synth.
Iām not sure if Iāve already made my mind up on the Pro 3 as being too modern for me, or if there might be a clicking point with it?
Anyone had similar experiences?
Yes. I felt the exact same. Bought mine during the first COVID lockdown. Just couldnāt get into it, found everything sounding a bit harsh. About a month later the Waldorf Iridium came out and I was having severe buyers remorse, so I sold the Pro 3 and bought the Iridium. Last year I seen a couple of videos by the Midlife Synthesist and Jameson Nathan Jones, by far the best synth YouTuber out there imo, and I decided to try the Pro 3 again. So bought it for a second time and this time I absolutely love it. Itās all about finding the sweet spots imo. My Super 6 is one massive sweet spot but the Pro 3 you have to work a bit harder with. I love how you assign parameters for the mod matrix, so simple and you can get really deep with it and create some lovely textures with it. Iāve posted earlier on this thread a video I made with it. The only thing I donāt like about it now is how it looks. I love the Sequential logo and would have loved to have had it on the bottom left of the synth like the rest of their range and some wooden sides!