User Manual

Prophet X User’s Guide

Oscillators

To audition the oscillators:

1. Press the global button.

2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to the

basic program command, then press

Soft Key 1 (write now).

3. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. (The level of Oscil-

lator 2 is set to zero and Instruments 1 and 2 do not have an instrument

selected.)

4. In the oscillators section, press the shape button to step through the

various waveshapes. Sawtooth is selected by default. Notice that it is

possible to select no waveshape.

5. As you toggle through the waveforms, turn the

shape mod knob and

listen to how the timbre of the waveform changes. When super saw is

selected as the waveshape, this knob controls the thickness (detuning)

of the Super Saw wave.

6. Turn up the level of Oscillator 2 in the Mixer and experiment with

setting each oscillator to a different waveshape. Experiment with the

fine tune knob on the oscillators and notice how slightly detuning the

oscillators in relation to each other creates movement and thickness in

their combined sound.

7. Try rotating the lter’s

cutoff and resonance knobs to see how they

affect the sound of the oscillators.

8. Use the

pitch knob to change the pitch (in semitones) of the oscillators.

Try tuning one oscillator to a interval such as a third, a fth, or a sixth.

9. With both oscillators on, press the sync 2 > 1 button, then rotate the

pitch knob on Oscillator 1 while you hold a note. This is the classic

hard sync sound. You can route an envelope to Oscillator 1 pitch using

the modulation matrix to create this effect each time you play a note.

You’ll learn more about the mod matrix in “Modulation” on page 55.