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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Poly Mod
Sequential
Poly Mod
Although the basic sonic character of the Prophet-10 is determined by
its oscillators and lters, much of its power to make truly unique sounds
comes from creative use of Poly Mod, or polyphonic modulation. Modu-
lation is the process of routing one parameter (used as a control voltage)
to another parameter in order to change the way the targeted parameter
behaves.
In the case of the Prophet-10 you can use Osc B or the Filter Envelope
Generator to modulate Oscillator A frequency, Oscillator A pulse width,
or Filter cutoff frequency. And because there are ve voices, this means
that each voice applies modulation to the selected destination.
For example, if you set Oscillator B to lo freq mode, this essentially
creates ve separate modulation LFOs since Osc B on each of the Proph-
et-10’s ten voices then functions as a low frequency oscillator while in
lo freq mode. If keyboard tracking is set to half or full, each of those
oscillators/LFOs tracks the keyboard and has a different frequency. It’s a
simple but powerful concept.
The Poly Mod section
Poly Mod modulation sources:
• Filter Envelope
• Oscillator B frequency
Poly Mod modulation destinations:
• Oscillator A frequency
• Oscillator A pulse width (square wave)
• Filter cutoff frequency