I have this weird feeling I don’t need any more gear. Getting Moog Subsequent 25 wasn’t as mind blowing as I hoped. Getting OB-6 and Prophet Rev 2 felt like doors to other world were opened. Subsequent 25 felt like it is ok synth. Don’t think Subsequent 37 would have felt too different. Having all those knobs and buttons would be nice but I don’t have room for it at the moment. Problem isn’t I need to use shift functions. It has more to do with having too much gear and Subsequent 25 not adding anything significant to set up. It just does basic thing better. It would have been same with Subsequent 37.
It is almost like with Les Paul. I thought I needed one. When I got one I didn’t like it that much. I had other guitars which gave the sound I wanted and felt better. To be exact Les Paul sound was in between two other guitars I had. When I played with Les Paul I felt I should rather pick one of the other guitars depending on which direction I wanted to go.
Subsequent 25 isn’t exactly like that. It only makes me wonder why I got it. Presets I came with doesn’t help. It has sixteen presets. Those seem to show capabilities of the synth without being too useful. I need to have more time with it but at the moment I feel SE-02 would be better for “Moog sound” I was looking for. Even with its flaws. I am glad I didn’t get Subsequent 37 to find this out. Might change my mind when I learned to use the synth. Maybe it starts to shine when getting deeper into velocity and keyboard tracking. Will keep it in setup and give it proper change. After all it sounds good on Youtube.
Getting Subsequent 25 seem to have cured my gear acquisition syndrome. I don’t feel I need new gear. It could be because I have got nearly everything I have dreamed during last few years. Have dreamed about massive eurorack system and Deckard’s Dream but those aren’t realistic dreams. It could also be because I am running out of room. If I had more room I wouldn’t need to buy anything new to expand setup. Just add my Minibrute 2 based eurorack system to it. Which is what I probably next change to system in future.