User manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome Back, Old Friend
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Rear Panel Connections
- Setting Up the Prophet-5
- Exploring the Prophet-5
- Chapter 2: Prophet-5 Controls
- Global Settings
- Oscillators
- Mixer
- Filter
- Filter Envelope
- Amplifier Envelope
- Low Frequency Oscillator
- Wheel-Mod Controls
- Poly Mod
- Using the Vintage Knob
- Pitch and Mod Wheels
- Adding Aftertouch
- Glide Rate
- Unison
- Master Tune
- The Release Switch
- The Tune Button
- Key Priority Modes
- Chapter 3: Creating Sounds
- Synth Bass
- Creating Synth Brass
- Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
- Chapter 4: Using CVs and Gates
- Appendix A: Troubleshooting and Support
- Appendix B: Calibrating the Prophet-5
- Appendix C: Exporting and Importing Programs/Banks
- Appendix D: Alternative Tunings
- 1. 12-Tone Equal Temperament (non-erasable)
- 2. Harmonic Series
- 3. Carlos Harmonic Twelve Tone
- 4. Meantone Temperament
- 5. 1/4 Tone Equal Temperament
- 6. 19 Tone Equal Temperament
- 7. 31 Tone Equal Temperament
- 8. Pythagorean C
- 9. Just Intonation in A with 7-Limit Tritone at D#
- 10. 3-5 Lattice in A
- 11. 3-7 Lattice in A
- 12. Other Music 7-Limit Black Keys in C
- 13. Dan Schmidt Pelog/Slendro
- 14. Yamaha Just Major C
- 15. Yamaha Just Minor C
- 16. Harry Partch 11-Limit 43 Note Just Intonation
- 1. 12-Tone Equal Temperament (non-erasable)
- Bookmark 1
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Prophet-10 User’s Guide
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Getting Started
The Prophet-10 is a ten-voice, polyphonic analog synthesizer with analog
voltage-controlled oscillators, lters, and ampliers. It faithfully repro-
duces the vintage sound and features of all three revisions of the original
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. It does this through the use of genuine
Curtis VCOs and lters as well as Dave Rossum’s newly designed SSI
2140 lter — the modern counterpart of his original SSM 2040, which
was used in vintage Prophet-5-Rev1 and Rev2 synths. The Prophet Rev3
featured CEM 3320 Curtis lters. By featuring both types of lters, the
new Prophet-5 provides the best of all worlds — and all Prophet-5s.
The Prophet-10 is rst and foremost a performance instrument. All of
its sound-shaping controls are immediately accessible on its front panel,
packing a tremendous amount of power and versatility into a compact,
easy-to-use format.
This chapter of your user’s guide provides an overview of essential tasks
such as how to make basic audio connections and how to edit and save
sounds. Later chapters explain each of the parameters of the Prophet-10
as well as how to program sounds and how to use the global menu to
manage its overall behavior.
All of the Prophet-10’s essential controls are within easy reach on its
front panel, so go ahead and dive in and start turning knobs and pressing
buttons to explore its sound and capabilities. Then, when you’re ready,
dig into this user’s guide to explore the deeper parts of the synth.
Prophet-10 front panel