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Prophet-10 User’s Guide
Key Priority Modes
Key Priority Modes
Key Priority determines what key has priority when Unison mode is on
and more than one key is pressed at the same time. When played poly-
phonically, the Prophet-10 is set to last note priority so that any newly
played notes take priority and will “steal” voices when necessary.
Available key priority modes are:
• Low note priority (LO) gives priority to the lowest note played.
• Low note retrigger (LOr) causes the envelopes to be retriggered with
each keystroke.
• Last note priority (Las) gives priority to the last note played.
• Last note priority retrigger (LAr gives priority to the last note played
and retriggers the envelopes with each keystroke.
To set the Key Priority Mode:
1. Press and hold the keyboard switch in the oscillator b section.
2. Use the group select (decrement) and bank select (increment)
switches to choose the desired note priority mode (low, last, low retrig-
ger, last retrigger).
About Voice Assignment
There are a number of different aspects of voice assignment on the
Prophet-10. The method on the original was simple, and we implemented
it: when more than 10 notes are played (or sustained with a long release
envelop), it will steal one of the voices to play the next note, and it will
retrigger. Another aspect is that if you repeatedly hit the same key, it will
not cycle through voices; it will retrigger the same voice.
In Unison mode, the original Prophet-5 would always play all ve voices
(now you can stack 1-5 voices), it would always be low-note priority,
and it would always play legato; that is, it would not retrigger on a new
key unless all keys were released rst.
The additional Key Priority modes described above allow you to use
alternate trigger and voice assignment methods for Unison. These modes
do not affect polyphonic playing.