it's exactly as I suspected, exept for those darn bells and whistles... maybe a few more bells and whistles than I had anticipated in the first place.
It's an engine "grown" , and "born" out of mother P12, that is very clear when you look at the specs, but Dave of course managed it to be so different, that it will apeal to anyone having any of their earlier models... and I'm in as well... have begun saving up for this, and hoping there will be a module version of it, because I feel the pricepoint is a little bit steep considering it's basicaly a 4 voice P12. There are no Curtis filter chips in this, and that must certainly lower the price, as the descrete filters are only one of each, being the paraphonic beast it is (I bet this paraphonic twist is a punch in the guts for Waldorf's Pulse 2).
But I can easily hear the discrete analog filters in this... it's so different than the P12 character, it's more "ballsy" and it even makes the oscillators sound less "digital" than on the P12 I think.
And then the bells and whistles.... the two filters, one being multimode and modelled from the Oberheim type, and the other after the SSM filter... this is probably the biggest bell and whistle of them all, in addition to the CV/Gate I/O... the software additions is nice... especialy the sequencer part, but I wonder if they have fixed the problems with oscillator sync sounds... and I wonder how much of the software additions will be ported to the P12 engine... but I'm not setting up any hope... I learned not to from the Evolver bugs still not fixed.
But one thing is certain... I'm not getting this right now. I'll wait and see if a module show up later, because I really don't need more keyboards.
... oh and by the way... I was wrong about the P12m module layout obviously... but I did see the OLED display and the encoders correctly when analyzing that picture from Dave's office... I guess the angle was simply too low, and the keyboard too small to effeciently see it. I guess that what surprised me the most was the analog discrete filters.
and by the way... I don't like the design of the keyboard really... I feel it looks too much like the P12... same font, same red colour writing, same knobs etc... I really think that it would have been a good point, to make a new look of it, when it's more or less a new line of synth.
And then those CV I/Os... neet for working with modular systems, and as we've already seen one module from DSI, I bet there is more coming exactly for using them with the CV/Gate I/Os ... This is clearly something DSI made to compete with the MOOGs and their Moogerfooger/Modular line of products. The genious plot in this is, that they have made the CVs routable in the Modulation Matrix... that makes it possible to integrate modular stuff as if it's almost a part of the enigne itself.... very VERY tempting! ... but I'm a little scared to start on that road, because I KNOW I'll never stop aquirering modules

So.... holding my breath that this Pro 2 will be available in a module version soon.