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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Prophet-10 User’s Guide
Low Frequency Oscillator
Low Frequency Oscillator
The LFO is a special-purpose oscillator that produces a frequency that is
typically below the range of human hearing. The LFO is used for peri-
odic modulation such as vibrato (periodic pitch modulation) lter modu-
lation, and pulse-width modulation. The LFO can be routed to any or all
of these destinations using the controls in the wheel-mod section.
The LFO produces three waveshapes: sawtooth, triangle, and square.
Noise is also available as a modulation source in the wheel-mod section.
The Low Frequency Oscillator and Wheel-Mod sections
Triangle wave is bipolar. That is, its waveshape is positive for half of its cycle
and negative for the other half. This makes it possible to generate a vibrato
that goes alternately sharp and at in equal amounts on either side of a center
frequency. The square and sawtooth waves generate only positive values.
In the case of the square wave, this makes it possible to generate natural-
sounding trills.
Triangle SquareSawtooth
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LFO waveshapes