User Manual

Prophet X User’s Guide

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Comparing Before You Save

Before saving a program to a new location, it’s a good idea to listen to the

program in the target location to make sure you really want to overwrite it.

To evaluate a program before you overwrite it:

1. Get ready to save by pressing the save/load button. It starts ashing.

2. Press the compare button. Its LED lights up.

3. Use the bank and program knobs to navigate to the sound you want to

compare and play the keyboard to hear the sound.

4. To disable the compare function and go back to the edited sound, press

the compare button again to turn it off. (Programs can’t be written

while in compare mode.)

5. If you want to save the edited sound, the save/load button is still

ashing and ready to save, so navigate to a location with the bank and

program knobs and press save/load. The sound is saved.

6. Alternatively, if you want to cancel saving and continue editing, press

the global button. Saving is canceled.

Working with Stacked or Split Programs

The Prophet X is bi-timbral, meaning that it can produce two different

sounds/programs at the same time, either by stacking them, or by

allowing you to split the keyboard and assign one sound to the upper

section of the keyboard and a different sound to the lower section of the

keyboard.

The two layers are referred to as Layer A and Layer B. By default, Layer

A is always active when you recall a program. If either the

split button

or the stack button is lit, then Layer B is also active. Each Layer can

have different Effects, Unison, Arpeggiator, and Sequencer settings. This

allows for some very interesting combinations of sounds.

As you scroll through various factory programs, you can tell which are

stacked and which are split. On stacked sounds, the

stack button is lit.

On split sounds, the split button is lit.