Dave Smith has been a revolutionary force in the synthesis world.
He has changed the rules of sound modules time and time again with his unique and fundamental sound. The Prophet 6 is a true testament to everything that DSI has stood for in the past and the sound is simply authentic. It’s based off of the design of the Prophet 5 but offers so much more while holding to the authentic Prophet 5 sound.The Prophet-6 is Dave Smith’s tribute to the poly synth that started it all—the Sequential Prophet-5. But it’s not simply a reissue of a classic. Rather, as Dave puts it, “It’s the result of our effort to build the most awesome-sounding, modern analog poly synth possible.” The Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the original Prophet-5—true voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers—and adds enhancements such as studio-quality effects, a polyphonic step sequencer, an arpeggiator, and more.
The result is pure, unadulterated analog tone with the stability and reliability of a state-of-the-art modern synth. Central to the warm, punchy sound of the Prophet-6 are its two newly-designed, discrete voltage-controlled oscillators (plus sub oscillator) per voice. Continuously variable wave shapes provide the tonal palette with triangle, sawtooth, and variable-width pulse waves.There are two discrete filters per voice—a four-pole, resonant, low-pass inspired by the original Prophet-5 filter, and a two-pole, resonant, high-pass filter. Voltage controlled amplifiers complete the all-analog signal path.The dual effects section provides studio-quality reverbs, delays (standard and BBD), chorus and phase shifter.
While the effects themselves are digital, with 24-bit, 48 kHz\resolution, a true bypass maintains a full analog signal path. There’s also an independent stereo distortion effect, which is 100% analog.
The result is pure, unadulterated analog tone with the stability and reliability of a state-ofthe-art modern synth.Central to the warm, punchy sound of the Prophet-6 are its two newly designed, discrete voltage-controlled oscillators (plus sub-oscillator) per voice.
Continuously variable waveshapes provide the tonal palette with triangle, sawtooth, and variable-width pulse waves. There are two discrete filters per voice—a four-pole, resonant, low-pass inspired by the original Prophet-5 filter, and a two-pole, resonant, high-pass filter. Voltage-controlled amplifiers complete the all-analog signal path.The dual effects section provides studio-quality reverbs, delays (standard and BBD), chorus and phase shifter. While the effects themselves are digital, with 24-bit, 48 kHz resolution, a true bypass maintains a full analog signal path. There’s also an independent stereo distortion effect, which is 100% analog.
