Interesting Synths / Your Wish List

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2015.xx | presets for my pre-2015 synths are free to download here
2015.01 | Moog SUB-37 – [DONE!]
2015.06 | Sequential Prophet-6 – [DONE!]
2015.08 | Roland JD-XA – [DONE!]
2016.02 | Korg Minilogue – [DONE!]
2016.05 | Sequential OB-6 – [DONE!]
2016.12 | Behringer DeepMind 12
2017.01 | Arturia Matrixbrute – [DONE!]
2017.06 | Sequential Prophet REV-2 – [DONE!]
2017.07 | Novation Peak / Summit – [DONE!]
2018.01 | Korg Prologue – [DONE!]
2018.07 | Moog Grandmother
2018.10 | Moog One

2019.03 | Korg Minilogue XD – [DONE!]
2019.05 | Arturia MicroFreak – [DONE!]
2019.10 | Moog Matriarch
2019.12 | Modal Argon-8 – [DONE!]
2020.01 | ASM Hydrasynth – [DONE!]
2020.02 | Sequential PRO-3 – [DONE!]
2020.03 | Korg Wavestate
2020.06 | Waldorf Iridium
2020.06 | Dreadbox Typhon
2020.07 | Twisted MEGAfm
2020.08 | UDO Super-6 – [DONE!]
2020.11 | Korg Opsix – [DONE!]
2020.11 | Modal Cobalt-8 – [DONE!]
2021.01 | Beetlecrab Vector Synth
2021.02 | Arturia Polybrute – [DONE!]

2021.06 | Korg Modwave – [DONE!]
2021.09 | Sequential Take-5 – [DONE!]
2021.12 | Dreadbox Nymphes
2021.12 | Waldorf M
2022.02 | Aodyo Anyma Phi
2022.05 | Oberheim OB-X8
2022.06 | Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave
2022.10 | Arturia Minifreak
2022.11 | Sequential Trigon-6 – [DONE!]
2023.01 | Expressive E Osmose
2023.02 | Roland SH-4d

2023.05 | Behringer PRO-800 – [DONE!]
2023.05 | PWM Mantis
2023.09 | Roland Gaia 2 – [DONE!]
2023.12 | Behringer UB-Xa
2024.01 | Korg King Korg NEO
2024.04 | Oberheim TEO-5
2024.08 | Moog Muse

This Post Has 109 Comments

  1. Max W.

    I think soon time comes for Carbon 8 from Modal 😉

    1. Jexus WCOG

      It’s really quiet on the Modal front. Haven’t seen anything since the 2023 Superbooth teaser.

  2. Shane

    Hey hope to see wavestate so,time. I think it’s a powerful beast…or beauty.

  3. JustAgoofball

    The Motas Electronics Motas-6 should be right up your alley. Has the potential to kick the MEK right in the nuts. I would love to see this happen so much!

    1. HardtechSoftsocks

      Another vote for the Motas 6! It’s an appealing mad genius mono that imho deserves more love from the synth community.

  4. S.O.T.A

    Dreadbox Madusa could be interesting.

    Also Analog Keys and DSI Pro2, mentioned before but would be a great addition:)

  5. Anachronist

    I’ve got a few I’d like to see. 🙂

    Dreadbox Hades and/or Erebus (maybe even a comparison of the different Erebus editions?)
    UDO Super Gemini
    Any of the Arturia Minibrute/Microbrute line
    Prophet 12, perhaps?

    And I also put my support in for the Ultranova and the Matriarch.

  6. Jarek

    My wishlist:
    Roland D 20
    Yamaha SY 35
    Korg 01/W
    Roland D-50
    Roland Juno X
    ( Ensoniq VFX but this synth is very difficult to understand to program to get something perfect)

    Why?
    These synths have amazing and unique sound in itself. Put together with your progarmming style, someting amazing would come out for sure. Best

  7. Awesomesaucer666

    I’d be super interested to see how you can bend the Supernatural to your will and am going to put the Roland Jupiter 80 up for your consideration. Truly something else and much spat-upon by The Purists and Nostalgists. But is there any basis for the hate when you dig deep into what it offers?

  8. Chris

    Hi. Another vote for the Gaia 2. It really looks interesting and has a lot of potential for some great sound design.

  9. Sergey

    Hi Jexus!
    Nord Modulars
    Yamaha FS1R
    Buchla EASEL

  10. BennyBlanco

    Hi Jexus,

    Read somewhere in here your next video will be with the Polybrute. Curious to hear your thoughts and opinion about it and how do you see it against the Moog One (8 voice to be a bit more fair:), although you may not have had the chance to play one as yet, just from internet videos and specs. Thanks!

    1. Neo

      Polybrute would be great. Their are so much Demos and Soundsets out there, but I could just find a handful which are good in my opinion. I know this synth is a real chameleon and can get in a lot of directions for an analogue synth.

  11. Neo

    The GS Music E7 seems to be the best sounding analog poly-synth you can buy at the moment and it looks quite flexible too.

  12. Anonymous

    Hello jexus,
    any interest in doing an oberheim xpander?
    Prophet X?
    Elektron Analog keys?
    Digitone keys?
    Yamaha reface dx? With controller?

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Xpander? Sure, on of my dream synths, but it’s too pricey nowadays!

    2. JMO

      Yes, PLEASE DO THE DIGITONE! Super interested to see you do an Elektron device and a “groovebox”

  13. Michael P

    I would love a PWM Malevolent video. That thing is nuts.

    1. squishy

      i second this! Jexus and nutty synths = 100% NUT to be missed! XD

  14. Emanuel

    The Expressive E Osmose is a must!

  15. rakeen

    Hello There !
    When do you plan to release a bank for Arturia Minifreak please ?
    Your sounds are amazing ! 🙂

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Hey, thanks! Not sure, because I’ve got some sounds already, but I think I should wait until Arturia releases the next firmware version for the Minifreak that supports wavetables. On a side note: Polybrute demos coming soon.

  16. Anonymous

    Will someone please get this man a Moog One so we can see the real capabilities of that enormous synth?

  17. Wlodek

    Just wondering that you still don’t have Hartmann Neuron with your taste on synths. Old digital Waldorfs maybe awesome for you too, not only Q.

  18. Gustavo

    You should give a chance to the Yamaha MODX and focus on the FM-X engine, it is indeed very interesting.

  19. Anonymous

    Studio Electronics C.O.D.E. / Omega 🙂

  20. John Doe

    I am a hobbyist and perhaps not your primary audience as I write only with software. That said, I purchased your Opsix pack and will be purchasing your Modwave pack. I think your sound design work is exceptional, uniquely creative. I’d LOVE to hear what you can do with the Wavestate. I know you had it and promptly returned it but I soooooo wish you’d give it another go. I think, if anyone, you are the one who could do something that really showcases the potential of this synth. Most custom sound packs I’ve auditioned are so….I don’t know, trite…predictable…Berlin school, Tangerine Dream, JMJ, new age, “ambient” (in quotes because they are not what I would classify as ambient). It’s all soooooo boring. I love Berlin school but there’s got to be more to Wavestate than that. I’m a tweaker, not a designer. I’d love to listen to your interpretation of Wavestate and it’s capabilities. I have only recently discovered your work. Honestly, I would buy any preset packs you make for synths that have a software counterpart. I find your sound design incredibly inspiring.

  21. Stergios

    I think that prophet X is a synth with great sound and possibilities.. I like very much it’s filter. 150 gb of samples +user that you can use any part of them as an osc + many mod options.
    Fm between digital osc and samples and many other things not possible in other synths…

  22. Aaron

    Jexus. I’m selling my Iridium.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks for letting me know, but I’ve already acquired a couple of synths so I’m out for the next quarter;)

  23. Benny

    Hi Jesus,

    Would be great to see your review and hear your sounds for the GS Audio E7 Analog Poly Synth. It’s a bit difficult to be found in Europe though, but looks and sounds interesting.

  24. Cneira

    Hi! I would really like to see what you can take from a Microkorg!! Yes, its old and microkeys and all that…but I think you would enjoy interface and the community will enjoy your patches!!

  25. Mauricio

    Hi Jesux ! I know you made a ms2000 video long time ago … but how about giving the Goat Microkorg some love ;)… and it’s fully compatible with the VST … double sale hardware and software

  26. Chester Tom

    Hi Jexus, I Love your patches, so cool !
    I just buy a Korg Monologue and I wondering if you plan to release a sound pack for it ?
    Thanks and have a good day 🙂

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks!! Monologue not really, but I’m thinking about the Minilogue (non-XD).

      1. Ascetik

        Couldn’t help but notice a ‘done’ next to the OG Minilogue. Vid incoming?

        1. Jexus WCOG

          Not now;) I have 3 new synths incoming after the Pro-800.

  27. Voltcontrol

    Not a new wish, but considering that it’s been mentioned in several of your reviews, I really hope that the Polybrute will come along somewhere. I know there’s no such thing as being complete, but it somehow seems like an apparent gap in the Jexuverse. Also on a personal note I’d love to read your thoughts on it and listen to the potentially hidden mod matrix+double filter depths you’re unable unearth.

  28. Casey Karl

    Would really like to see what you could do with the Vector . I order mine back in Nov. of 22 and I live on the east coast of the United States and I got mine in less then 5 days . You have to order from there site they will get it to you .

  29. Anonymous

    Aelita Synthesizer, please)

      1. Anonymous

        Watched it 100 times)
        Is it possible to make a new video?

  30. dxMat

    Waldor M or Microwave I or II/XT…

  31. Luis

    Whenever it gets released in SEPT/OCT. The Elta Solar 42 would be a very interesting unit for you to review. I pre ordered one and it has SO Many great features. I can only imagine what a synth wizard like you would do with it.

  32. Anonymous

    Ist would be interesting to watch what you get out of a Roland V-Synth
    +

  33. Voltcontrol

    Studio Electronics Omega 8. This gorgeous beast is somewhere, calling for you and you know it

  34. Borianderek

    I would be really interested to see you review the Vector Synth as it seems to be quite unconventional and might interest you. The other curious thing I’d like you to test is Norand Mono (there seems to be MK2 on the horizon). Elektron Digitone is also worth exploring – it sounds phenomenal and is more than meets the eye:)

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Hi! I was contemplating the Vector synth – do I understand correctly that it can only be ordered thru the manufacturer’s website? I haven’t seen it in my online shops.

      1. Anonymous

        It would seem so, however – there’s one sitting on OLX now, maybe you’ll be tempted! Cheers

  35. Benny Blanco

    Hi Jexus,

    Now that you have the Trigon 6, would you consider it over the OB6, does it sound better, or there’s quite a bit of overlap? Thank you!

    1. Jexus WCOG

      I wouldn’t say any of the P-6 / T-6 / OB-6 trio sounds better. They’re the same league. I’d say this instead: Prophet sounds modern & clean, OB-6 sounds vintage & fizzy, while the Trigon-6 is an ambiguous timbre that sits somewhere between the two;)

  36. Стас

    Jexus, have you played the Yamaha SY77? Do you like it? You said you like DX7 and SY77 is DX7 on steroids. Maybe you ever use it?
    I recently bought a DX7 and to be honest, if it wasn’t for your DX7 demo, I would probably pass it by. It has had such a profound effect on me, I’ve watched it countless times, I think it’s the best synthesizer video in all of YouTube.

  37. ash

    Hey Jexus I love all of your reviews and hope you are doing well! Recently I discovered the PWM malevolent and it seems like it’s perfect for a Jexus review! Would love to hear your opinion on how it sounds!

    1. Jexus WCOG

      I’m fine, thanks! And now there’s the new PWM – the Mantis:)

      1. ash

        Im excited to hear more sound demos of the mantis! The Mantis and the Super Gemeni where some of the coolest things I saw in superbooth videos so far. Have you considered writing up a quick Interesting things at superbooth review? Even if it was extremely brief I would find it very interesting!

  38. squishy

    A modern FM synth! (Im watching now DX7, and yes I saw you have done the OpSix). I guess you only demo synths with KEYS? 😀 Else I would ask the PreenFM2/FM3 as YouTube is 99% devoid of these FM synths!

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks for your suggestion! I also demo keyless synths – like the UDO Super-6;)

  39. Ascetik

    Elektron Analog Keys, would love to see what you do with its crazy sequencer and mod routings!

  40. Anonymous

    Synthstrom Deluge please!

  41. pigeon

    Jexus how about April Fools/relaxed episode with some famous free VST in your freetime (I guess you haven’t got much of it though)? Im sure a specialist like you might crank a lot from Synth1 and such stuff.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      I’ve been thinking about doing a video other than the usual synth demo… but right now all my free time is devoted to programming & editing.

  42. malphuncous

    Kawai K5000S?

  43. Neil

    Didn’t I read you’re doing the Cobalt next? It would be great if you could somehow combine that with a revisit of the Argon8, because since your review of that synth it has now also been given a lot of the features you’ll be seeing in the Cobalt – all the filter types, drive, etc. It’s been vastly expanded.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Yep, I know about the Argon. But first Cobalt and then… 2 new synths;)

  44. Anonymous

    + for modal 002 or 008
    Roland V-Synth???

  45. Anonymous

    Nord Modular G2 please

  46. Chrystophe

    I remember catching your videos in the early days of your channel and was really impressed by your video on the Korg Prophecy. I had justt bought one and was looking at videos on how to use that complicated ass synth, only to stumble on your video and realize it’s capabilities outside of the middle eastern genre. It inspired me to really dig dep into it and get it as nasty as I could (I wrote industrial style music mostly then). I still watch that video from time to time, such a cool memory from an era where I was just getting obsessed with synths (and they were still relatively inexpensive to acquire). I still love the prophecy more than any synth I have. If you stil have yours, that would be my wishlist sound bank for sure.

  47. Stas

    Please, Prophet-12 and Wavestate

  48. XENITH

    OP-1 FEILD, PLZ LORD JEXUS

    1. Jexus WCOG

      hey… maybe Teenage Engineering’s New $1,599 Field Desk ? 😀

  49. pumpernickel

    I would absolutely love to see your take on patches for the Anyma Phi. I find the raw sounds it can create to be very fresh to my ears. ツ

  50. Anonymous

    Got your Modwave soundset, quite interesting sounds there, I like it. I think you would love the Waldorf Quantum/Iridium sound. Sounds like your thing.

  51. Lauschzwiebel

    A soundset for DSI / Sequential Prophet-12, after 10 years still one of my favs besides the Novation Peak, Waldorf Blofeld and Dreadbox Erebus V3 🙂

  52. Стас

    Jexus, any chance of seeing a Korg Wavestate video in the future? I know you didn’t like him, but he’s on your list, which is why I’m asking.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Ah… the Wavestate… I rejected this synth, but that was before the Modwave. Ever since Korg released the software editors I’ve been thinking if I should get the Wavestate back…

  53. Anonymous

    Modal 008 and 002 would be a great addition.

  54. Asterinos

    I d love to have your presets for prophet x(i think that you ll fell in love with this monster), bass station ii, se 1x

    1. Asterinos

      .. Also kurzweil k2000 is a great instrument with the deepest synth engine ever…

      1. Jexus WCOG

        People have been mentioning the K2000 since I remember, gotta give it a try some day!

        1. Anonymous

          Yummy and not so yummy aliasing everywhere in that one 😀

  55. Joao pimenta

    The Waldorf Quantum with the latest beta version , also has several 16 voices options….some combine Analog and digital filters.

  56. Throw snow

    Prophet x
    Vermona perfourmer
    Arp 2600m
    Kodamo – EssenceFM MKII
    Elektron analog four.

    I had the impression, sequential is not your favorite company, but you tested most of there stuff recently.
    And there is a take 5 demo coming?

    I really want to see the polybrute.
    Or waldorf m. Waldorf quantum is the iridium with analog filters.
    I really like your mucrofreak demo and the sequentual p6 demo. Allthough i like the ob6 more as a synth.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks. I don’t have a favorite company;) Each company has its strengths. I have the Take-5 and I’ll be making a demo for Spring 2023. But first Modwave & Cobalt-8.

      1. Anonymous

        Have you played the polybrute yet?
        Any plans or nothing specific?

        1. Jexus WCOG

          I haven’t played the Polybrute yet. No clear plans either…

  57. George Papageorgiou

    Prophet 12, please.
    And take my money, stat.

    1. Anonymous

      Include the pro2 still really competitive synths these day!

  58. marie

    C15 – NONLINEAR LABS & GROOVE SYNTH 3D WAVE with the MOOG ON 16 they are the sick ones to hack man, got the C15 and it’s a beats of weirdness like the ONE !

  59. hexaton

    Ensoniq VFX -SD

  60. BennyBlanco

    Just out of curiosity, by testing and making sounds for all of these ‘new wave’ synths, which let’s say 3 are the keepers for you, that you’d actually use for your music? As at times you mention you borrow them for your demos, but which are the ones you really keep for yourself:)

    1. Jexus WCOG

      This kind of question is hard to the point of being unanswerable;) But if I were to keep just 3 for the purpose of making music, I would take the Matrixbrute (dirty sound & ease of use), Prophet-6 (timeless sound & ease of use) and Opsix / Modwave (for unique textures / timbres).

  61. donPedro

    Yamaha reface CS

  62. Anonymous

    i would add:

    what about the sequential prophet x?
    this is one of the most interesting synth from sequential i think.

    korg 2600m if the matriarch is also on the list but i think that is not your kind of taste. you don’t really like modular stuff, do you?

    Elektron analog four or keys or mk2
    i really like to see.

    Kodamo – EssenceFM MKII
    a powerful fm synth with good sound and interface as i read

  63. Anonymous

    for me, although the obx8 really sounds great, was a very boring experience for me. it is very samey, really expensive and though doesn’t shine in all its sound capabillities. i think i am not a fan of the obx or xa as a whole.

  64. Joao Pimenta

    Waldorf Quantum

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks. Which Waldorf is “a Quantum in a rack”? The Waldorf M or the Waldorf Iridium?

      1. Monitor von Synthesizer

        Iridium. TL;DR – plus 8 voices, minus analog filters.

  65. random space

    Dreadbox Typhon Sequential Take-5

      1. Richard

        I am excited to read your thoughts on this. I miss mine. I bought one, got an OB-6 module, said I don’t need a Take 5 too, sold it, then sold OB-6 because I felt it was too expensive to keep. Now no Take 5 or OB-6. I have a Peak, but I don’t have those nice feeling keys from the Take5.

  66. Basti

    Prophet 5/10 or if possible the old Pro One 😊. So flexible and alive sounding for this simple Architecture.

  67. Switch

    Moog Matriarch is a must. I have to see what you can do on the Matriarch. It’s not on your wish list but may I suggest the Roland V-Synth. I know it’s old school but the Roland V-Synth was made for you. I still can’t believe you haven’t done a review of that synth. It’s a classic. Keep up the good work.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      Thanks:) But Matriarch is on the list! Between Arturia MicroFreak & Modal Argon-8.

  68. Benny

    Korg Modwave, Wavestate, Moog One would be interesting to see and hear coming from you.

    1. Jexus WCOG

      I can confirm a Modwave demo is coming. However, I can’t say the same about the others yet.

  69. Gianluca

    I’d add the Behringer Pro800 and Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave and you’re basically covered with all the current and upcoming modern synths 🙂

    P.S. Not confirmed, but there are rumors about Korg working on something new… Next flagship? Maxilogue or Prologue XD? Who knows lol

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