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Chapter 3: Creating Sounds
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Chapter 3: Creating Sounds
The Prophet-10 can produce a broad spectrum of sounds. Though the
factory programs give you some idea of its scope, if you just play its presets,
you’re not using the Prophet-10 to its full potential. The real fun is in creat-
ing sounds of your own.
This chapter provides some short sound programming tutorials. Though
there isn’t enough space here to cover how to use every Prophet-10 function,
the examples will help you get familiar with some basic concepts.
Synth Bass
A synth bass is one of the easiest and most useful sounds you can make
on a synth. Many great synth bass sounds consist of a single oscillator, a
bit of lter resonance, the proper envelope, and that’s it. So start with the
Basic Program and go from there.
Short Version
To create a classic synth bass:
1. Recall the basic preset by holding down record and pressing preset.
2. Set lter cutoff to 3.
3. Set lter resonance to 3.
4. In the envelopes section, set the Filter Envelope’s decay to 6.
5. In the envelopes section, set the Filter Envelope’s sustain to 2.
6. In the envelopes section, set the Filter Envelope’s env amount to 10.
7. Play some low notes on the keyboard. Instant synth bass!
8. Experiment with the Filter Envelope’s env amount and decay settings.
9. Experiment with the Filter’s resonance settings.