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
- Bookmark 1
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Oscillators
Sequential
Oscillator Controls
Frequency: Sets the base oscillator frequency over a 4-octave range.
Adjustment is in semitones.
The Master Tune knob affects the pitch of all oscillators, as does the Transpose
parameter in the Globals section.
Fine: This adjusts the tuning of Oscillator B upward (sharp) and has a
range of nearly a semitone.
Shape: Sawtooth, Triangle, Square/Pulse—Selects the waveshape gener-
ated by the oscillator. You can turn on multiple waveshapes simultane-
ously.
Pulse Width: Changes the width of the square/pulse wave from a square
wave when the pulse width knob is at its center position, to a very
narrow pulse wave when the pulse width knob is fully left or right.
Applying pulse width modulation using poly mod or the low frequency oscillator
is a great way to add movement and thickness to a sound, especially when creating
pad or string-like sounds.
Sync: Off, On—Turns on Oscillator A hard sync. Sync forces Oscillator
A to restart its cycle every time Oscillator B starts a cycle. This provides
a way to create more complex, harmonically rich shapes from simple
waveforms—especially when the frequency of Oscillator A is set to a
different interval than Oscillator B.
Oscillator A
Oscillator B
Oscillator A
synced to
Oscillator B
Oscillator hard sync