[Shaxland]

I’m a year off from buying a flagship synth, but have already been trying to learn as much as I can about them, and doing research now, but one thing for sure, I will be auditioning them at my local music shop. If you are lucky like me to have shops that have units available to try, or will open the box for you to be able to play with it, then definitely try them out! I’m willing to spend at least an half an hour or more with each synth but unsure how much time I actually need since I have never shopped for one like this before, but for the amount of money I’ll be spending, I figure it’s worth it. TONS of people online selling synths after a short time owning it, only to discover they like something else, or prefer what they already had.

One negative I have heard about the OB-X8 is that it has page 2 menus. Here’s what I wrote in my notes which is probably from Reddit or YouTube review…

“You either have to menu dive the 41 pages of page 2 or click page 2 button to access dual functionality of the knobs… seriously for $5k they should have put more knobs on it. Oh yeah the dual functionality isn’t labeled on the panel.”

In this regard, I would say the Prophet is better, not so much for sound, but for ease of use and fewer issues with menus, if at all.