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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Using the Vintage Knob
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Using the Vintage Knob
The new Prophet-10 is an authentically vintage-sounding instrument
even though it was designed and constructed with state-of-the-art tech-
nology and components. Part of the reason for this is that it uses genuine
analog voltage-controlled oscillators, lters, and ampliers 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-10 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 ampliers from voice to voice.
To impart the same avor to the new Prophet-10, we created a control,
the vintage knob, that lets you dial in progressively more of this charac-
ter as you go from a very stable 4 (as in Prophet-10 Rev4, which is how
we refer to the new Prophet-10) 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 ampliers.
Try it out!
The Vintage knob