Ambient jam with the Sequential Take 5

A live ambient track performed entirely on the Sequential Take 5, using only the on-board effects. The Sequential Take 5 is not revolutionary in any particular way: it&a five-voice, subtractive, analog polysynth with on-board effects. But no matter how I look at it, the Take 5 is clearly the current best first choice if you&looking to buy a versatile analog synth that can do it all. It&got fantastic build quality, good keybed with full-sized keys and aftertouch, and on-board effects that sound better to my ears than others in its range. Its oscillators and filter are good, and its bass response is stronger than most polysynths I&played with. The mod matrix is simple to use but has plenty of depth. One of the effects is a high-pass filter, which allows you to carve out the midrange for your pad work. The filter drive doesn&offer much, but the separate distortion adds a lot. The layout is intuitive, workflow is fast, and you can get to making patches with very little effort. I&got synths I like more for bass, pads, and leads, but I&got no one synth that can do all of them this well. This was a pad patch I made with some vibrato, "vintage" fluctuations in tuning and envelopes, the bucket-brigade-style delay, long reverb, and a nice slow set of envelopes on the filter and amp. I started playing and this song came out, a good example of how the sounds can inspire. If you&got a bunch of synths already, you probably don&need this one. (I mean, let&be honest that we don&need any...