UNO SYNTH PRO Review and tutorial - Pros and cons for IK Multimedia's new synth

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TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Overview
3:30 Workflow
5:20 Synth guts
6:40 Connectivity
7:50 Oscillators
8:40 Mixer
9:50 Osc x mods
11:40 Paraphonic
14:05 Filter
17:00 Series/Parallel
19:15 Effects
22:20 Mod matrix
27:45 Arpeggiator
29:20 Sequencer
32:40 Song mode
34:45 Scales
36:00 Pros & cons
41:05 128 Presets
1:02:50 Outro...

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[lumm]

The price of the Uno Synth pro desktop is now under 295€. This is an absolutely insane device for this money.

[Septimius]

I really appreciate the explicit transparency you have over the things you review and your revenue streams. All of YouTube could learn from you, loopop.

[NoirEtBlancVie]

Fantastic overview. Agree with your con about seeing more info about the envelopes visually. Something that could be fixed in firmware and I’d love to see that.

[StormBurnX]

It's good to hear the synth guts are the same between them, I am simply in love with that little form factor but all too often, a smaller body means reduced internal functionality

[paulmint]

Synth review at breakfast, fantastic !!! I'm
buying one !!

[chuckvicious]

Loopop literally changed my life over the last year or two. Always love synths, never knew much about them. Thanks to Loopop, people think I'm a freaking synth savant. I've been asked to play several shows and had such a good time turning knobs and sliding sliders thanks to him. I would have been much more bored and depressed over the pandemic if not for this new hobby. Thank you once again for the great videos.

[RobertSaintJohn]

Excellent, comprehensive review, and great suggestions for future tweaks. I got mine (keyboard version) yesterday and love it, absolute keeper. I guess I’m one of those that really appreciates the UI/UX and what it allowed them to squeeze into this footprint. Some of the comments here are outrageous, though. To compare this (not you) to a certain 6 voice bargain polysynth betrays a sad lack of understanding of what these synths can and cannot do. I’ll have to look back and if you ever reviewed the Pro 3 or Sub 37, and see what gems were left in those comments, lol. We all gotta start somewhere though.

[Death_By_Media]

Had one for a little over a week ...pretty much agree with your pros and cons . For people looking at what makes this a choice . The OTA filter has a nice sound different to most of the offerings on other monos and the 2nd filter is a new SSI chip and can do that brassy prophet type sound pretty well . The FX while the delay and reverb are not mind blowing are decent ...the Mods however are basically Juno 1 and 2 and strings which is an ensemble all sound very good . Overall I got it as I wanted an analog with as much versatility as possible in a package not much larger than a Volca as the desktop is about the size of the control portion of the micro freak . I won’t be letting go of my BSII but they both sound different enough to justify that to me .

[michaelt_tamtam]

My first synth was the UNO and as a bass player, I can say it has nice low-end, sounds fat. Great starter analog synth. This UNO PRO is a huge step up! Very nice improvement.
Although I'm into eurorack now, so...

[JorbLovesGear]

Having the 4 active parameters lit up on the body is something I wish the microkorg could do, such a programming speed boost.

[grouponspeam]

Pretty much above my expectations. This little box is a beast. I think i have to sell some of my other gears to buy this.

[ThisisRends]

Wonder if there is a competition between brands about who can include the smallest display

[flunkedouttanasa]

It sounds great. I think having the FX on-board makes it appealing. You're getting usable sounds straight out of the box with no outboard FX. That's appealing for jammers and live.

[ByronAtkinsonJones]

I love how as soon as you hit the “on the run” patch instinct kicked in to play with the filter - had to be done :)

[Chrispya]

Great review, tutorial & really appreciated the patch/sequencer demoing of all the presets at the end (including the ubiquitous'Bladerunner' & 'DSOTM' sequences :-)

The last hour spent doing the dishes whilst listening and watching your presentation made the task a pleasure. I'm about to start the vacuuming so may just listen to it again!

[michaelhonormusic]

I think Uno Pro is much more appealing then Minilogue XD when it comes to richness and fatness of sound and tone. I sold my Minilogue Xd just to get a Uno Pro and I have never looked back since.

[blankblank]

you only get better at what you do. thank you for this channel, I'm glad to see you're getting support (review units) from companies it means that they believe in your channel too. Great review as always thanks for brightening my morning

[thebebbsta]

Just bought it on the strength of your video...thanks

[nickademuss]

I have the original Uno, its a great portable synth, very fun, great tones can be made. I do have a warning though, the software used to link to it, upgrade it and load/save presets can only be downloaded from the original owners account. Its not transferable, so if you sell it or trade it, the new user wont have access. They could of fixed that, I haven't tried in a wile... I believe that's one of the reasons the used price is so low. If they do the same thing with these, then the price will be very low in about a year on the used market....Again I love the sound and the battery power option, its my go to for trips....

[synthrequests]

the way they designed the oscillator controls is incredibly clever