Honky Mopho...

Got my Mopho today (thanks, Shawn!!!) All I’ve done to this point is plug it up and take a step through roughly half the presets, but I have to say that aside from a couple UI quirks, this is an excellent box, and a really good value for your synth dollar. Quite frankly, I’d have a hard time recommending anything that makes noise that costs under $500 over this, period.

Minor quibbles: the way the “Program” knob was, well, programmed leaves a bit to be desired. Once you’ve edited a program at all, you have to press a button to be able to change programs again. I assume this is to keep you from accidentally changing programs while you’re programming it, but frankly, anyone that wants to program a sound _from_ the UI is in for a lot more ruthless experience than accidentally changing a sound will provide.

Also, some of the knobs which should have a bit of velocity to them (the filter freq and program chiefly) do not. You have to turn either knob like 30 times to get through its whole range of values, and this can get a bit tedious.

The presets, well, whatever. It seems like about half were made by Venetian Snares and the other half were made by someone who makes their living in a prog rock cover band. “Tom Sawyer?” Really? Did we have to go there? I haven’t gone through all the banks of provided sounds yet, but I’ll be utterly completely shocked if there isn’t a patch named “Lucky Solo” or some such. I already found a “Tarkus” sequence. In the song the part is played by an L100, so this is double extra silly. Jesus, I can’t believe I even typed that. Kill me now.

I can’t speak to the editor or general usability, as I’ve only had it a couple hours. I’ll get to those in good time. But I have a feeling that once I scrape out all these dumb “SYNC LEEEDZ” sounds, I’ll be able to program some fairly cool shit in to this bitch. It seems pretty capable. But sound-wise, absolutely fantastic. Smooth as butter and bottom for days.