Sequential today introduced the Take 5 Desktop Module, a new variant of the Take 5 synthesizer that drops the keyboard.
Here’s what Sequential has to say about it:
“The Sequential Take 5 desktop module brings the legendary Prophet-5 sound to your mix, featuring the analog oscillators and filter that transformed electronic music.
Compact and powerful, it fits seamlessly into any studio and is easy to transport for live performances. Modern effects and a powerful modulation matrix deliver sounds to transport you.”
Features:
- Two analog VCOs per voice
- Continuously variable wave shape (sine, sawtooth, variable-width pulse) per oscillator
- Hard sync: oscillator 1 syncs to oscillator 2
- Square wave sub-octave generator (oscillator 1) per voice
- Keyboard tracking on/off for each oscillator
- Front-panel FM (frequency modulation)
- Four-pole, resonant, low-pass filter per voice, based on Prophet-5 Rev 4 design
- Filter can be driven into self-oscillation with the Resonance control
- Bi-polar filter envelope amount
- Two 5-stage envelope generators (ADSR + delay) with variable routing (filter, amplifier, auxiliary)
- Velocity modulation of each envelope amount
- Envelopes freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations
- 1 Global LFO and 1 Per-Voice LFO
- Five LFO wave shapes: triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, square, and random (sample and hold)
- LFO Clock sync (internal or external MIDI clock)
- LFOs freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations
Pricing and Availability:
The Sequential Take 5 Desktop Module is now available for $1399 USD.
$100 cheaper than pre-tarriff keyboard version, yawn. Will either pick this up or its brother, used, once tarrifs are over. Now to make the same comment on the other article… 😉
Do you want to swap usernames? My username would be more appropriate for this kind of commentary.
Feel free to contribute something useful whenever you’re done groaning about groaning 🙂
they should have used cheap enough components to get it down to 899
it would have been a serious contender for legendary status at that point
Legendary synths have never been designed by trying to cheap out on components to keep costs down.
Meet the SH-101.
Thank god for Behringer, shutting down elitism one great product at a time. Except the LM Drum… they fcked that ux up badly lol
your statement is objectively wrong
and its also quite obvious… which makes your entire perspective on anything suspect
$1400 is already a very impressive price for such a well-designed and complex product. They must have done their best to choose the best value for money components, they also need to support this product for several years, from my experience, Sequential has the best support out there and that comes at a cost.
I for one would gladly pay for high-quality reliable components.
I love this synth so much
For a second, I thought I had alzheimer’s lol! I personally like the TEO-5 just a tad bit more because of the filters and the through-zero FM capabilities. They’re both fine synths though. Hope you enjoy your Take-5! 🙂
I love the TEO-5 paintjob
Finally, yes!
Excellent news from both TE-O5 and Take 5 desktops – very welcomed indeed.
It looks that synth manufacturers finally realised that most musicians have at least one keyboard that can be used as instrument controller and don’t need or want yet another one…
Finally, Nice one!
It would be awesome if they did a collaboration with elektron and released these in the analog four form.
Or simply a desktop Pro-3 🙂