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PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 6 1.1. Credits ...................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2. Support..................................................................................................................................... 6 2.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.5. Low Pass Filter....................................................................................................................... 37 8.6. Modulators and Controls........................................................................................................ 38 8.7. Editor Menus.......................................................................................................................... 39 8.7.1. FILE Menu: ......................................
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.3.3. 11.3.4. 11.3.5. Bank Menu: ................................................................................................................... 70 Librarian Menu:............................................................................................................. 70 MIDI Menu: .................................................................................................................. 71 12. PROGRAM GENETICS and MORPHER ................................
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 1. INTRODUCTION Congratulations and thank you for downloading/purchasing our Prophet ’08 SoundEditor for the Dave Smith Instruments (DSI) Prophet ‘08! This Prophet ’08 SoundEditor is designed to be the ultimate tool for organizing and creating presets for your Prophet ’08. Through a MIDI connection, this program can receive single presets or an entire bank of presets from the hardware - as well as replace individual presets or an entire bank.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 2. INSTALLATION / REQUIREMENTS No special software installation is required. SoundEditor is a stand-alone program designed to run on Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP; Min Pentium 133. The SoundEditor application requires: • 15MB Hard Drive space • 256 MB RAM (min.) • 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution. • A MIDI interface Updates are available at: www.davesmithinstruments.com. The Prophet ’08 already has the correct firmware.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 3. OVERVIEW This User Guide will walk you through the steps to setup the SoundEditor with your Prophet ’08 instrument. The STARTING UP and GETTING CONNECTED sections should be followed first to get the hardware properly connected and running with the SoundEditor software. From there you can freely explore SoundEditor, edit and audition sounds, create new ones and have some fun! The Prophet ’08 is a deep and complex instrument with many programming options.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The first window you will see upon startup will be the following message window overlaying the splash screen: Note: Registration is free for Special Edition model owners.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Selecting DEMO will put the program in demo mode, limiting file and SysEx operations, but still allowing you to check out the program. The unregistered program lets you freely edit all of the Prophet ’08s preset parameters and use most of the Editor's functions with the following limitations: • • • • Saving files (disabled) Loading files (disabled) with exception of SYSEX files in OS UPDATE utility.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Registered users will see their name displayed on the program splash screen.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 5. GETTING CONNECTED In order for the Prophet ’08 SoundEditor software to communicate with the Prophet ’08, the hardware must be connected to both the MIDI In and MIDI Out connections of your computer's MIDI interface. To open MIDI Setup, click on Midi menu and select MIDI Setup or use Ctrl-M. In MIDI Setup, select both MIDI In and MIDI Out ports where Prophet ‘08 is connected.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide MIDI IN combo box selects the midi interface port to which your Prophet ’08’s Midi Out is connected. This interface processes midi data sent to Prophet ’08 Sound Editor from the Prophet ’08.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6. SOUNDEDITOR Quick Start When you launch SoundEditor you will see the window below. We will be referring to this as the Main window throughout this manual. The Main window contains menus, a toolbar and, initially, the Layer A parameter editing control panel: Note: The first time you launch SoundEditor, the two program banks, though not initially displayed, are filled with the Prophet ’08 factory sounds banks.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.1. Software Menus Here’s a quick tour of the menus in the Main window: 6.1.1. FILE Menu: The File menu contains commands to load and save Prophet ’08 data, load Factory Presets and access the Prophet ’08 Bank Manager and Phantom Program Banks windows. • • • • See Loading and Saving Files, Section 6.7 Loads the Prophet ’08 or factory programs. Sec. 10 See Prophet ’08 Bank Manager/Librarian, Sec.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.1.2. EDIT Menu: The Edit menu contains commands for accessing Controls, Sequencer, copying, pasting, renaming, writing and initializing programs. You have the capability to Copy, Paste and Initializing the currently active Layer as well. Renaming the currently active program can be done through this menu. 6.1.3.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.1.4. OPTIONS Menu: The Options menu contains the commands for switching between Prophet ’08 Layer A and Layer B, as well as accessing the Program Genetics and V-Piano windows. This is also where you would select off-line editing. • • • See Program Genetics and Morpher, Sec. 12 Screen resolution control See V-Piano, Sec. 15 6.1.5. SNAPSHOTS Menu: The Snapshots menu contains just two commands for the Snapshots window, Add and View.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.1.6. HELP Menu: Prophet ’08 Help command will automatically access the SoundTower Prophet ’08 help webpage when selected. An active Internet connection will be required to access Prophet ’08 Help. + The Prophet 08 OS Update feature allows for OS update from provided files or from files saved to HD. This is explained in section xxx of this guide. 6.2.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Similarly, when in Program Banks, Right-clicking on program Category column results in the contextual menu shown to the right. This menu allows you to assign a category to your program. It should be noted that these Categories are only accessible through the SoundEditor and not the Prophet ‘08. The Categories are stored in the Prophet ‘08’s memory for future recall. 6.3. Scrollable Lists You’ve already seen the two program bank lists that the Program Bank window offers.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.4. Toolbar The Toolbar contains buttons for frequently used functions. A description of each button follows: The Receive button receives the current program from the Prophet ’08, allowing you to refresh after making changes. This button resynchronizes SoundEditor with the Prophet ’08 if you have been editing a program offline using the Prophet ’08 controls.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Popup labels identifying the Start/Stop Sequencer and Sequencer Reset buttons are displayed when the cursor is placed on them. To the right of the Snap button is a MIDI status display. It shows the current MIDI status, and will display hexadecimal transmissions of MIDI data. With normal MIDI communication between SoundEditor and the Prophet ’08 instrument, the MIDI status displays ‘ON-LINE PROPHET ’08’.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The Piano button brings up the V-Piano (Virtual Piano) window. The Piano button duplicates the action of selecting ‘V-Piano’ from the Options menu. To the right of the Piano button is a group of three smaller buttons and a MIDI status display. 6.5. Naming Programs SoundEditor gives you the ability to name your own programs or change existing program names that then can be stored and recalled in the Prophet ’08.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Another option for ease of changing the name of the current program being edited is to click on the main program assignment panel which brings up the rename window immediately. Note: There is a 16-character limit on program names. Names may include upper and lower case characters as well as numbers and most punctuation marks. You can also change the program name using the Write button in the toolbar.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Here you can change the name or enter a new name in the ‘New Name’ field. When done, clicking the OK button will save the new name to the existing (default) location. Write P also gives you the option of saving the program to another location if desired. Select the new bank using the Destination bank pull-down menu (shown), and scroll to the desired program location. Clicking OK will save the program to this new location. 6.6.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide A transfer window will open at this point. If your MIDI interface cannot keep up with the rate of received or transmitted data you can adjust the time interval between transfers from 0 to 1000 milliseconds using the slider control in the lower left of either transfer window: Note: When a single bank is transmitted, this bank replaces the corresponding bank in the Prophet ’08.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 6.7. Loading and Saving Files Loading and saving functions are located in the File and Program menus in the Main window. You can load or save all Prophet ’08 data at once, or limit the data to a selected Program Bank or Single Program. Note: SoundEditor also has features for loading/saving Sequences, Phantom (virtual) Program Banks and Library files. Refer to those sections elsewhere in the User Guide for details.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 7. GLOBAL SETTINGS The SoundEditor’s Global Settings window is displayed by clicking the Global button in the toolbar or by selecting “Global Settings” from the MIDI menu (shortcut: Ctrl + G). The data is automatically polled from the Prophet ’08 but not if SoundEditor is set to “OFF-LINE EDITING”.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide • • • • • • • • • • Midi Program Send/Receive On/Off Midi Pressure Send/Receive On/Off Midi Controller Send/Receive On/Off SySex Send/Receive On/Off Parameter Send (NRPN, CC, OFF) Parameter Receive (All, NRPN Only, CC Only, OFF) Pedal Destination (Foot Control, Breath Control, Expression, Volume, Filter Frequency, Filter Frequency / 2) Damper Polarity (Normally Open, Normally Closed) Velocity Curve (Curve 1 through 4) Pressure Curve (Curve 1 through 4) See image below for
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8. EDITOR (Layer A and Layer B) A unique feature of the Prophet ’08 is the Layer concept. Each Program has two layers, A and B. Each layer can contain a completely different patch. The layers are typically used to create stacked and split Programs, though you can also switch quickly between the layers using the LAYER A/B button. (Please refer to the Prophet’08 User Guide for full information on this feature.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide We will deal with the combined Layer A/Layer B Mode in section 17. For the Layer editing window you have access to every Prophet ’08 programming parameters, including sequences. The Editor’s real-time controls allow you to tweak, test and audition the sound of your presets right from your PC. Edits are automatically sent. Custom knob controls are used in the Editor window to display the functional equivalent of the Prophet ’08 knobs.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.1. Editor Controls The Editor window has several types of controls for program editing. Each is discussed in more detail in the following sections. 8.1.1. Buttons Clicking on a button toggles it ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’. When ON, the button has the appearance of an LED that is lit. When OFF, the button appears dimmed. In this example, the Stack A/B button is ON and the Split A/B is off: 8.1.2.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.1.3. Parameter menus Click to select a parameter menu. Clicking on the label produces a drop-down menu that will display all possible options for the particular parameter. Clicking on a selection in the drop-down will select that item and close the menu: 8.1.4.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Clicking in the Editor’s Modulation Destination field brings up the Destination menu, listing all of the possible modulation destinations. To select no destination, choose the ‘Off’ selection at the top. Making a new selection updates the source or destination display fields immediately, and the chosen selection is transmitted to the Prophet ’08. Like the Source menu, the Destination menu will remain open only until you single click on a selection. 8.1.5.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.2. Program Envelopes SoundEditor provides two panels dedicated windows to adjust program envelopes. The adjustments are viewed graphically as the knob value changes are reflected by direct envelope changes in the display. Click on and adjust the knobs to change the envelope forms. In addition to the ADSR control sliders, the Filter Envelope Window contains slider controls to adjust the Filter Frequency, Envelope Amount and Keyboard Amount.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The AMP Envelope window contains the familiar ADSR, VCR and Amount controls as well as controls for Level and Velocity. The Envelope 3 window also contains the ADSR, Amount controls, and a Velocity control like the AMP envelope, but adds a programmable destination field. Clicking in this field brings up the Destination Menu, where you can select the destination of Envelope 3.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.3. LFO All four LFO control are grouped at the bottom left of the main Layer window. The organization of each of the LFO is the same: Shape and destination are selected through drop down lists accessed by clicking on label or arrow. The Frequency and Amount values are modified by knobs controls. Each LFO can be synced individually by clicking on/off the LEDs. 8.4.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide • • • • • • • • Freq Fine Shape/PW Glide Noise Glide Mode Osc Stop and Toggling Sync and Keyboard On/Off Note that Glide Mode is changed through contextual menu not knob. Click on the list box to open the list. 8.5. Low Pass Filter Low Pass Filter parameters are controlled by controls in the Low Pass Filter sub-panel found to the middle right of the main screen.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide • • • • • • 4 – Pole (toggle) Delay Attack Decay Sustain and Release 8.6. Modulators and Controls Modulators and Controls are simply mapped by clicking on the combobox down arrows and selecting from the list. Above ’28 Env 1 Attack’ was selected as Pressure Destination on Controls panel. Levels are controlled by use of the knobs to the right of the Source and Destination labels.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 8.7. Editor Menus Here are descriptions of the menus in the Editor window: 8.7.1. FILE Menu: The File menu contains commands to access the Load and Save Single Programs, Program Banks, Librarian, Phantom Program Banks and Exit commands. 8.7.2. EDIT Menu: The Edit menu contains commands for copying, pasting, initializing and writing programs.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The Write command brings up the Write Program window, allowing you to change the name and select the location where The program will be saved. Initialize resets all parameters to default values. 8.7.3. OPTIONS Menu: The Options menu gives access to many controls and functions unique to Sound Tower editors. • • • Access to Program Genetics and Morpher windows Screen Resolution choice of 1024x768 and 1152x864+ V-Piano 8.8.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Selecting Write produces the Write Program dialog box: Select a destination bank, location and click OK to store the program. You can also change the program name here (limited to 16 characters). Click Cancel to cancel the operation.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9. SEQUENCER WINDOW From the Sequencer window all four of the Prophet ’08 sequences can be graphically controlled. The Sequencer Window is selected from the Editor’s Program menu (shortcut: F6), or by clicking on Tool Bar button (below) A quick adjustment option is offered through the controls on the right side of the editor screen.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide When the Sequencer is selected, it opens a new window (below). The Sequencer window contains parameters to program the four Prophet ’08 sequences, controls to adjust the tempo and clock divide functions, and buttons to start/stop and reset the sequencer.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Tempo and a drop down list box to control Clock Divider parameters (see section 9.6 below). 9.1. Sequencer Buttons The sequencer buttons provide a convenient way to start/stop and reset the Prophet ’08’s sequencer remotely. Like the sequence buttons in the main window, placing the cursor over the Sequencer buttons causes a pop-up label to appear.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9.2. Display Mode The Display Mode control affects the way the cursor works when adjusting each of the 16 sequence control bars. There are two modes, Sliders and Pen: Sliders are just that, individual sliders. Each bar is adjusted individually by clicking and dragging on the ‘fader’. Slider mode is the best choice for sequences that will control oscillator pitch, or anytime precision adjustment is required.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9.3. Sequence Destination Just below each of the four Sequence labels is a display field that that expands into a list box when clicked showing the sequence’s destination (shown as OSC ALL in the figure below). You can change the destination by clicking in this display field, which will bring up a destination menu as shown. In the example given here, Sequence 1 is set to control Resonance. Each of the Sequences (1 through 4) must be selected individually.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9.4. Reset Button The Reset button resets all 16 sequencer control bars to zero values.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9.5. Function Button Just below the Reset button is the Function button. Selecting the Function button opens a window that gives you access to additional sequencer functions, including adjusting the length of each sequence, options to create pitched sequences from preloaded sequence data, and functions to alter the sequence data. Also notice that we’ve selected Major from the Chords column, creating a sequence of pitch values based on a major chord.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide • • • • • • • • Copy/Paste: Copies the selected sequence/pastes to any selected sequence. Reverse: Reverses the sequence order within the specified step range. Invert: Inverts all values within the specified step range. Zero values become Resets and vice versa. Randomize: Randomizes all values within the specified step range. Repeated selecting of the Randomize function creates a new series of random sequence values.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 9.6. Tempo and Clock Divide At the top right of the Sequencer Window are the Tempo and Clock Divide function controls. To adjust, simply click and rotate control for Tempo and click on the label for activation of contextual menu for clock divide. Tempo is continually adjustable from 30 to 250 BPM. Clock Divide is adjustable in increments from Half Note through 64th N T. 9.7.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The window will display all the files on your computer, but only those files having an ‘.p_s’ extension are valid template files that can be loaded. All other file types will be ignored. Use the Add button to save the current sequence as a template. You can display all sequencer settings from all programs in Program Banks. To select and apply sequencer settings from a template, use your mouse to click on the small arrow in the right most column in sequencer Template list.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 10. USER PROGRAM BANKS To streamline functionality of this software the Prophet ‘08 user banks are set in their own powerful sub-window easily accessed from the main GUI, from main menu or short cut key. (Ctrl+B). The Banks window is, in essence, a smaller main control window that can be left open and use in conjunction with the main editing window. If the program is to be heavily edited the Banks window can be minimize or closed until needed again.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The program banks display both Bank A and Bank B for editing. 10.1. Renaming Programs in a bank There are two options to rename a program from the program bank Edit menu select Rename (Ctrl+N) and open the rename box.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The other option is to left click select a program in one of the bank windows and then click the Edit button to set this program to be the active program in main edit window. This will also cause the program name to be placed in the current program name label (in the example below A001 ‘Wagnerian’ was select and set by Edit.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 10.2. Copying, pasting and renaming by popup menu To copy selected program, click right mouse button to show pop-up menu and select “Copy Program”. You can use “Copy Program” from the “Edit” menu. If you have edited/changed any parameters, they will be included in the copied program. To paste the copied program to a different location in any of the banks, select the destination location, click the right mouse button to show pop-up menu and select “Paste Program”.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Note: The Paste function from the pop-up menu described above is different than Pasting from the “Edit” menu: • • ·Pasting from a pop-up menu automatically writes Program to the Prophet ’08. Pasting from the “Edit” menu sends the program to the Prophet ’08’s buffer for editing or auditioning. 10.3. Saving and Loading Single Programs Use the right mouse button pop-up menu to save the selected single program to a file or place it into a bank. 10.4.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The Load Factory Presets command has a fly-out menu of program banks to choose from. The current OS has only the one choice. You can also open the Librarian and/or Phantom Program Banks from this menu as well. 10.4.2. EDIT Menu The Edit menu contains commands to Copy, Paste, and Rename, Initialize and Clear a program bank. The Copy Program and Paste/Write Program commands operate on the selected program, and are used to copy and paste programs between Banks.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Selecting any of the MIDI Dump Banks commands brings up the Transmit Program Banks window. The contents of the selected Program Bank will be transmitted to the chosen Prophet ’08 Bank when you click on the Transmit window Start button.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 10.5. Program Menu The program menu selection is very important to the functioning of Banks management. It contains the core list of functions for loading and sending/writing programs to and from the Prophet ’08. When you have selected a program of interested that is to be edited the first option of the Program menu, Edit Program Ctrl+E, sends the entire program to the SoundEditor’s buffer and is represented on the editing surface by updating all parameter groups.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Load Program Bank To and Save Program Bank will pull or send all of a selected Bank from or to file on memory media when selected. Your OS system dependent save/open dialogue window will guide you through this process. Load Single Program and Save Single Program will open and load or save a selected program from or to file on memory media when selected. Your OS system dependent save/open dialogue window will guide you through this process.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The last function available for use in the Program menu is the Initialize function. Selecting this option resets all program parameters back to initial factory presets.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11. PROPHET ’08 BANK MANAGER/LIBRARIAN The Prophet ’08 Bank Manager is accessed through the Main window by clicking on the Bank button just to the right of the main program label. The Prophet ’08 Bank Manager’s Librarian lets you organize and store an unlimited number of Prophet ’08 programs. You can also have as many Library files on your computer as you wish.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.1. Buttons and Checkboxes A detailed view of the buttons and checkboxes in the Prophet ’08 Bank Manager is shown below. Here’s how the buttons and checkboxes function: The Use Bank Data checkbox is part of the User Program Bank functions. When Use Bank Data is unchecked (disabled), selecting a preset from the User Program Bank switches the Prophet ’08 to the corresponding preset. This guaranties synchronization between the hardware and SoundEditor.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.2. Librarian Functions The Librarian function contains 24 sound categories and a program list which display the contents of each category: The selected sound category is indicated by boldface type and a triangle to the left of the name.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Note: When the number of presets exceeds what can be displayed in the list window, the program will add a scroll bar to provide access to the complete list of presets. You can change to a different category simply by clicking on the small arrow to the left of the desired sound category name.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide You can import all 128 programs from the User Program Bank into the Library using the Load From User Bank Data command in the Librarian menu You can also import the sounds from the Program Genetics Top Offspring bank using the Add From Top Offspring command. It’s important to understand that when using the Load From User Bank Data or Add From Top Offspring commands, programs will load into the currently selected Librarian category.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Programs can be moved from one category to another by dragging them with the mouse. Here we are dragging program 013 ‘Tarkus (F1 seq)’ into the Res Bass category: And here is the result. Note that after the move the number of programs in the Strings Library category is now 99 (down from 100 as seen in image above), and 1 program is now in the Res Bass category: You can also drag programs from the User Bank to the Library and from the Library to the User Bank.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Found under Librarian menu the New Library command allows you to create a new Library. After selecting New Library, you’ll see a message dialog asking if you wish to save the existing library: Clicking the OK button will present you with a ‘Save Program Library’ dialog box that will allow you to name and save the current library to the location you specify. Clicking the NO button will clear the existing library including all 24 categories, leaving an empty library.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.3.1. Librarian Menu: The Librarian menu is found at the top left corner of the Librarian window. 11.3.2. File Menu: File Menu contains links to the Load and Save Prophet ’08 Data, Load Factory Presets, Program Banks, Phantom Program Banks and Quit options.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.3.3. Bank Menu: Bank menu contains the command to handle Librarian edit operations, including Copy, Paste, Rename, Initialize, Edit Program From Bank, New Bank, Load to A and Save A options. 11.3.4. Librarian Menu: Librarian menu contains the usual Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete and Rename Program functions.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 11.3.5. MIDI Menu: The MIDI menu contains a quick link to the Midi Setup window that contains all the MIDI setup linkages and information as well as Receive A (or B), Transmit A (or B) and Global Settings link.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 12. PROGRAM GENETICS and MORPHER The Program Genetics window is selected from the Options menu of the main page (Morpher is a subset function of Genetics and will be discussed at the end of this section): Program Genetics can also be accessed from the Bank Manager/Librarian Options menu selection as well: Genetics allows you to quickly build new sounds from two existing ones in a similar fashion to breeding.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Any pair of programs can be used for the genetics functions (one program each from mother and father). The result of applying the user-selected genetics functions creates a child bank of 128 new programs, and any ‘keepers’ auditioned from the child bank can then be moved into the Top Offspring bank. The four Program Genetics functions are selected by using the buttons at the top of the window.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide on their placement within the list. The middle child program is exactly 1⁄2 of the mother and 1⁄2 of the father. • Mutate button: The parameter values of each child preset are randomly chosen from within the range between each parent’s parameter. For example, if the mother’s cutoff frequency was 10 and the father’s was 88, the child values would be anywhere between 10 and 88.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 12.1. Loading Banks Both Parent banks use the programs from the ‘A’ bank by default, but any bank can be loaded into either parent by clicking on the list box masthead and selecting Bank A or B as shown below: 12.2. Creating New Sounds To create a bank of sounds based on a Program Genetics function (Mix, Morph, Mutate, or Random) you must select a pair of ‘seed’ programs, one each from the Mommy bank and Daddy bank.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide If Auto Audition is enabled, the newly generated programs can be auditioned by selecting a program from the Kids bank. With Auto Audition enabled, the program data is automatically sent to the Prophet ’08 edit buffer. Programs can be auditioned using SoundEditor’s V-Piano function, or by using the computer keyboard. Note: Be sure to turn down the volume before trying out “Kids” programs because the resulting levels can be unpredictable! 12.3.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 12.5. Morpher The Morpher function is accessed through the main menu Option selection: The resulting window is a reduced view of the Morpher: This window contains a slider that allows for real time Morphing (the same Morph algorithm as used in the Program Genetics function) between any two programs from either or the same bank.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Options include preserving certain parameter groups as presented in the original programs (options for preservation are): • Base Sequencer • Freq/Tune • Base Mod Sources • Base Mod Destination • Base Analogue Oscillators • Base Controls There is also the option to Morph the Analog Oscillators only and to use Controller by number.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 13. SNAPSHOTS Program Snapshots add extra functionality to quickly capture UNDO points or “Snapshots” of edited programs. To add the current program to Snapshots click on the Snap button on Layer Tool Bar (seen below) Use SnapShot menu option and select Add Snapshot Press Ctrl+A to display SnapShot window.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide To rename a program in Snapshot collection, double-click on the program name. To send the Snapshot to the Prophet ’08’s edit buffer, click the Send button as seen above. As you build a list of snapshots you may want to go back to one of interest and re-edit it or audition. This is simply done by clicking on one of the SnapShot selections and clicking the Edit button. The parameter settings on main window will automatically reset.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 14. PHANTOM PROGRAM BANKS The Phantom Program Banks function allows you to add virtual banks of programs (phantoms) to your Prophet ’08. Phantom Program Banks allows you to load up to 16 banks of programs into SoundEditor, and have any program in any bank immediately available for auditioning. This means you can have as many as 2048 programs (16 x 128) at your disposal (2560 program when you include the four Prophet ’08 instrument banks!).
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Phantom Banks serve as a librarian for your Prophet ’08 programs. You can load 16 different Program Banks into Prophet ’08 Sound Edit at a time. The banks can be loaded from the Prophet ’08’s Program Banks, from Genetics’ Top Offspring or from saved Prophet ’08 Bank and SysEx Files. Loading functions are located in the File menu.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide One click on the – Not Assigned label will bring up the contextual menu filled with the available categories. These are changed in Librarian.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 15. V-PIANO The Virtual Piano (V-Piano) provides a way to ‘play’ the Prophet ’08 remotely using the mouse. V-Piano is selected from the Options menu in either the Main window or the Editor window (shortcut: ctrl-P) To play, simply use the mouse to press keys on the V-Piano.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide The vertical slider on the far right of the keyboard adjusts the velocity of notes played from 0 to 127. The Midi channel is changed by clicking on the label just above the Velocity label (‘Vel. 127’ below) and choosing from the popup menu. 15.1. Playing Notes From Keyboard You can also play notes on the Prophet ’08 using your computer's keyboard. The middle and bottom rows of computer keys act as a single octave of keys mapped like a piano keyboard.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide V =E B =F H =F# N =G J =G# M =A K = A# ,=B . = C (one octave above "X" key) All Notes Off - Space Bar key Additional functions: + and - = change Note velocity +/- 5 * and / = change Play channel +/- 1 Visually this is roughly represented by the following schematic of the keyboard: Hint: You can “hang” a note by pressing down a “note” key and while it is depressed, press “octave” key.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Note: This feature works in all windows, allowing you to audition sounds at any time. Note that the CAPS LOCK key must not be ON, as only lower case letters send MIDI note data. You can use the CAPS LOCK key to temporarily turn off remote playing if desired.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 16. HELP PROGRAM FUNCTIONS 16.1. About This menu item simply opens a splash screen that gives the registered owner and version details of the software. 16.2. Help ON Line The Help On Line menu item opens your default web browser with a direct link to SoundTower.com/prophet online help page.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide There are several options to update the Prophet ’08 OS using the ‘Prophet ‘08 OS Update’ function located under Prophet ’08 in Help in main menu: Selecting this command will initiate the update. You will be presented with a dialogue box offering update options. There are two different methods to update the operating system. The first is broken down into a two part procedure involving update of MainOS and then VoiceOS.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide When this part of the update is finished the Prophet’08 will close and then restart. Please do not turn off your Prophet’08 during this procedure. When the software restarts, go back to the Help menu and open the OS update dialogue again and click the VoiceOS update button. This will invoke the following dialogue window: Please note that the software will close and then restart again automatically when update is completed.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Clicking the OPEN button will load the file into SoundEditor. You will be presented with a dialog box. Clicking the START button will initiate the transfer of SysEx data to the Prophet ’08. You must NOT interrupt, turn off or other wise disrupt the update while it is in progress as this may have sever consequences with regard to your Prophet’08’s OS integrity that may require reinstallation of the OS.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 17. PROPHET ’08 STACK and SPLIT LAYERS Prophet’08 Stack and Split functions are easily and simply engaged by the editor by toggling between two LEDs at the top of the editor screen. In the upper of the two images above the Stack function is engaged and the lower of the images demonstrates the Split function view.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 18. KEY COMMAND SHORTCUTS Most of the menus in the SoundEditor have key command shortcuts for frequently used items on the menus. Many users find these key command shortcuts quicker and easier then using the mouse for most operations. Key command shortcuts are found in the program menus. Here is a list of the complete key command shortcuts for SoundEditor. 18.1.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide MIDI menu: Ctrl + R Ctrl + T Ctrl + G Ctrl + M Receive Current Program Transmit Current Program Global Settings Midi Setup Options menu: Crtl + Shift + G Crtl + Shift + M Ctrl + P Program Genetics Morpher V-Piano Snap Shots menu: Crtl + A Crtl + Shift + A Add Snapshot View Snapshots 18.2.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Crtl + Shift + D Crtl + Shift + E Crtl + Shift + N Delete Edit Program From Lib Rename Program MIDI menu: Crtl + R Crtl + T Crtl + M Crtl + G Receive BankB Transmit BankB Midi Setup Global Settings Options menu: Crtl + Shift + G Crtl + P Program Genetics V - Piano 18.3.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Options menu: Ctrl + G Ctrl + P Program Genetics V-Piano Snap Shots menu: Crtl + A Crtl + Shift + A Add Snapshot View Snapshots 18.4.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 19. APENDIXICES 19.1. APPENDIX A. FILE EXTENSIONS Here is the complete list of file extensions used in the DSI Prophet’08 SoundEditor: Save/Load Prophet 08 Program Bank .p_b Save/Load All Prophet 08 Data .p08 Save/Load Single Prophet 08 Program .p_p Save/Load Prophet 08 Main Settings .p_m Save/Load Sequence Templates .p_s Program Library .p_l, .p_b OS Update from File .
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 19.2. APPENDIX B. SEQUENCER NOTE VALUES The following chart of note values is provided to assist in adjusting sequence pitches in SoundEditor.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide 19.3. APPENDIX C. SEQUENCER CHORDS The Function section in SoundEditor’s Sequencer window contains a number of preset ‘chords’ which are programmed as arpeggiated patterns of notes. These preset chord patterns are shown here for your convenience. The patterns are based on a starting step value of 48 (C4, although the step value is completely programmable), and visually grouped to shown the chord played.
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor User Guide Sequencer window preset ‘chords’ continued: .
