At Knobcon 2025, held Sept 5-7 in the Chicagoland area, Weston Precision Audio introduced the PRO2021 mkII, described as “the best Pro-One clone you’ll ever play.”
The PRO2021 mkII clones the original Sequential Pro-One, but with much better build quality. Where the original had a plastic panel, cheap pots and a problematic keyboard, the PRO2021 mkII features heavy-duty build quality, a metal panel, upgraded pots and switches and a modern keyboard.
Features:
- Updated clone of the Sequential Pro-One features
- Music Technologies Group Turbo CPU offers enhanced capabilities
- DIY project designed to be easier to build, with no hand wiring
- Fatar keyboard with aftertouch, with controls for filter and pitch modulation
- Improved PC layouts for lower noise
- Improved metal-shaft pots and high-quality switches
Pricing and Availability:
Details on pricing and availability are still to come. They plan to make it available as a kit through synthCube.
I really enjoyed using my Behringer pro-1, but this is cool too… it says there is no hand wiring, so you would just be doing basic assembly?
No hand wiring means the pots and other controls are mounted to a circuit board so you don’t have to run wires from individual pots to a board.
It’s how the majority of synth kits are.
I’m sooo bored of all the clones and re-issues of the same old synths over and over again.
Feels like a synth groundhog day
To complain about something you don’t have to buy grows weary
Some people just want to complain.
Anytime someone actually intros an original synth that’s not based on vintage designs, somebody will complain about the price and says that they’ll ‘wait for the Behringer version’.
Easy solution: stop reading Synthtopia and you’ll never know about them.
Side benefit: the rest of us won’t have to read your negative comments!
Looks great!
Should.br interesting! Can’t wait for pricing…
Cool! They should also have an optional transparent case:
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I always thought the transparent plex case in the ad looked cool, but seemed like it would constantly look dirty in real life.
Naming this the “Faux One” is a missed opportunity, surely. 🙂
I get a little weary of clones, etc., but hey, form follows function. There’s no lack of new entries at every level. Its a modular hobby. You build your ideal rig over time. Name a sound production method and there are 50 synths that employ it. Include software and that number jumps over the moon. I’m not much for monosynths, but I bought Cherry Audio’s Pro Soloist because it has dual layers and a poly mode. Its paid off. You can play the game any way you like.
It’s cool but I find the shorter block which houses the pitch and mod wheels is distracting and looks janky on an otherwise decent looking instrument.
The Pro-One was might first synthesizer, back in the late ’80s.
I got mine used for about $400, which now seems like an insane deal, but at the time it was a lot of money.
The Pro-One is a great synth voice in a kind of cheesy body, so this looks interesting to me. Mine has all the usual issues with Pro-Ones – keyboard trigger issues, noisy pots and switches, etc.
I’m gonna be that one-upmanship jerk here… I got a Pro-One in nice shape from a friend of friend for $40 in 1990!!! Another friend pestered the bejesus out of me to sell it to him a few years later for $200. Big mistake!