New Product: Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08
Feb 5, 2008 6:42 PM Asher Fulero (Writer)
Heavy synth heads, start
your drooling now. With the original Prophet-5 designer (Sequential Circuits
founder Dave Smith) at the helm, the DSI Prophet '08 ($2,199; www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/p8/index.php) is a fully future-ized version of Sequential's
classic analog beast that boasts its own 100-percent analog signal path with
eight notes of polyphony, each with two VCOs and a Curtis lowpass filter. The
five-octave keyboard has semiweighted action with Velocity and Aftertouch
(lacking in the original), a spring-loaded pitch wheel and an assignable mod
wheel. The 16-by-4 gated sequencer, powerful arpeggiator, three envelope
generators (ENV3 can loop) and four LFOs offer a multitude of ways to animate
sounds. MIDI In, Out, Thru and Poly Chain are all offered on the rear, as are
sustain pedal and CV/expression pedal inputs, a headphone output and a pair of
stereo 1/4-inch outputs for sending patch layers to separate places. With a
sound clearly resembling the original, the Prophet '08 offers significantly
more control and power, and will certainly be one of the collector’s pieces of
the year.
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