The Dave Smith Instruments Sequential Prophet Desktop module is every bit as powerful and easy to use as its counterpart, the Prophet 6 Keyboard. The module has all of the same controls as the keyboard version and provides the same immediacy and ease of use — with absolutely no menu diving. As with the Prophet 6 Keyboard, all parameters are at your fingertips, with full-sized knobs and switches and a comfortable, intuitive layout. Dave Smith Instruments have made synthesizer modules and keyboards for years and the Prophet 6 will not dissapoint.

The Dave Smith Instruments 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 Dave Smith Instruments 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.

Key Features:

• All-analog signal path; discrete VCOs and filters
• 6 voices; 2 voltage-controlled oscillators plus a sub oscillator per voice
• 2 discrete filters per voice: 4-pole resonant lowpass and 2-pole resonant highpass
• Digital dual-FX section (true bypass maintains a full analog signal path)
• Multimode arpeggiator; 64-step polyphonic step sequencer

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