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Using the Vintage Knob
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Using the Vintage Knob
The new Prophet-5 is an authentically vintage-sounding instrument even
though it was designed and constructed with state-of-the-art technology
and components. Part of the reason for this is that it uses genuine analog
voltage-controlled oscillators, lters, and ampliers that are as exact as
possible to the versions used in the original Prophet-5.
Another reason for the vintage sound of the new Prophet-5 is that we did
extensive research into exactly what made the original sound the way it
did — warm, organic, and alive. Not surprisingly we found that much of
this desirable character was due to slight uctuations and differences in
the response times and frequencies of the individual lters, envelopes,
and ampliers from voice to voice.
To impart the same avor to the new Prophet-5, we created a control, the
vintage knob, that lets you dial in progressively more of this character as
you go from a very stable 4 (as in Prophet-5 Rev4, which is how we refer
to the new Prophet-5) all the way to 1 (as in Prophet-5 Rev1, which was
the rarest and most temperamental of all Prophet-5s).
Thus, turning the vintage knob from 4 to 1 adds progressively more
randomness to the behavior of the individual VCOs, lters, envelopes,
and ampliers.
Try it out!
The Vintage knob