Highly musical polyphonic step sequencer
The Prophet X's polyphonic step sequencer provides up to 64 steps and up to six notes per step. If you're working in stacked- or split-voice mode, it lets you create a different sequence for each layer, making it a powerful tool for performance and composing. Sequences can even have ties and rests and can be synced to an external MIDI clock. The arpeggiator features note repeats and re-latching and can sync to external MIDI clock as well.
Two effects per layer
The Prophet X includes a powerful dual effects engine with multiple reverbs, two delays (standard and BBD), chorus, phase shifter, flanger, vintage rotating speaker, highpass filter, and distortion. In split- or stacked-voice mode, you can apply two different effects to each layer. To craft continuously shifting timbres, you can easily modulate effects parameters through the Prophet X's mod matrix.
Designed by a synth legend
The name Dave Smith commands respect. Holder of UC Berkeley CS and EE degrees, musician, design engineer, and the driving force behind Sequential Circuits, Dave's first synthesizer was the legendary Prophet 5 in 1978 — the first microprocessor-controlled polyphonic synthesizer capable of storing the value of every parameter within its voicing and control systems. This was a watershed technological breakthrough, and the implications were staggering. Think about this: before the Prophet 5, it simply wasn't possible to enter a patch number into a synth and recall a sound you had stored.
The Prophet 5 and its successors were hugely successful, finding their way into every top studio and major act's keyboard rig and onto countless recordings by artists as diverse as Madonna and Weather Report! Impressive, yes — but Dave also had a hand in inventing a little thing called MIDI. Taking full advantage of the latest cutting-edge digital/analog technologies, Prophet X is the most recent chapter in one of the great American synth success stories.
Features:
- Bi-timbral, 8-voice stereo (16-voice mono) synthesizer
- Combines high-fidelity stereo samples with powerful synthesis
- 150GB sample library created by acclaimed 8Dio sound developers
- 2 simultaneous 16-bit/48kHz sample-based instruments
- 50GB of internal storage for importing additional samples
- Loop manipulation and sample stretching
- 2 high-resolution digital oscillators with waveshape modulation
- Stereo analog filters
- 4 envelope generators, 4 LFOs
- Modulation matrix
- Premium 5-octave semi-weighted keyboard with velocity and channel aftertouch
- 3 OLED displays, USB support, and onboard power supply