A great new flagship synth from DSI, and props to them for innovating. You can also use it to hype basses if you crank the resonance and lower the hpf cut to around 0-20.Īll in all it's been a dream, and a source of real inspiration in my work. The HPF is surprisingly decent and useful for de-mudding super stacked pads/strings. Using 35 years of experience building synths, Dave Smith has created what he calls his 'best synth yet.' By combining the finest qualities of the Prophet 08 and Poly Evolver keyboards, adding a ton of new features, and bumping up the voice-count to 12, the Prophet 12 is well worthy of the name.
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The 2 pole is essentially worthless to me due to the lack of full resonance support. Dave Smith Instruments unleashes the Prophet 12 Synthesizer. The curtis filter is iconic and certainly of a certain sound (love it or hate it) - hot, a little "chippy", but smoother than you might expect, and capable of some serious juice with the right modulation, at least in 4 pole mode. Would also like access to a more conventional sounding bitcrusher, "hack" isn't quite as satisfying. Were extremely excited to welcome Sequential to the Focusrite Group family of audio brands, following the acquisition of Dave Smiths legendary synthesizer. My hope is that in the future they'll implement a way to allow you to add in your own user waves, or like a "draw your own" wave that brings you to a basic GUI on the OLED to draw in the wave with the soft knobs. Some of the more recent updates have brought some cool ideas to the fray as well, including control over lpf/hpf of the delays, and being able to modulate osc slop (smeary pitch inebriation ahoy!). The programming is super deep (especially when you get osc frequency modulation involved), but gotta say it's one of the most intuitive and comfortable programming experiences I've ever had with a DSI synth. Great for synth-y acoustic emulations too. I think it's strongest suits are definitely pads and sfx, but it definitely can handle leads and some types of basses with aplomb. Which leads me to believe that if they were going to take something from the back catalogue then it’s likely to incorporate both digital and analogue technologies.I absolutely love my P12. It’s tempting to focus on the Prophet 5 when talking about Sequential but with the Prophet-6, Rev2 and OB-6 they’ve pretty much done everything in the analogue polysynth space. There are also the few notes at the beginning of the video that sound very old school analogue. Dave says that it’s “my gift back to you” which does make it sound like he’s wanting to respond to people’s expectations of Sequential. Or perhaps this new design is going to do something interesting with some of his legacy products. Maybe the recent spate of wavetable synthesizers has inspired him to revisit his days at Korg? One clue could be that it’s going to be a similar size to the Pro-3 if it’s fitting into that same space, which says to me that it will be less of a large workstation and more of a focused synthesizer. So maybe we could be talking about FM or physical modelling. So as he’s already done a hybrid where else could he be looking? Is this an entirely new thing or just a new synthesizer design for Sequential. It’s an instrument that seems to combine the various forms of technology Dave has worked in over the years. Alongside you can just see the end of the Prophet X Hybrid Synth which combines digital oscillators, a huge sample-based sound engine and analogue filters. This would perhaps indicate that this is going to be something we’ve not seen before.
A new instrument?ĭave talks about it being a “new synthesizer design” and that it would normally be sitting exactly where he currently has one of his new Pro-3 Special Edition synthesizers sitting in the video. And his current range of instruments reflects his hybrid experience of working with the best of all sorts of technology. including Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Jan Hammer, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno.
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He returned to instrument making in 2002 with Dave Smith Instruments and in 2018 he was able to pick up the Sequential name again to find himself back where he started but with 46 years of experience in analogue, digital, software and hardware design. 1- I n 1, The invention of the synthesizer in the l960s opened the door to a.
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From there he moved to R&D at Korg working on the Wavestation and then on to Seer Systems producing the first professional software synthesizer for Intel in 1997. He moved on to join R&D at Yamaha working on software synthesizers and physical modelling. He founded Sequential Instruments in 1974 and produced the legendary Prophet 5 amongst other great synthesizers. Dave Smith is 70 years old and still making synthesizers.
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