Solaires – Roland TR-8 vs DSI Tempest jam

April 1, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Solaires – Roland TR-8 vs DSI Tempest jam 

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picked up the TR-8 this week, it makes a great companion to the Tempest, which i have going through a Korg Kaoss pad Quad and into the Roland’s external input.

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Science – 64 presets for MoPho

March 28, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Science – 64 presets for MoPho 

64 new patches made by Alba Ecstasy for MoPho. The presets are compatible with MoPho, MoPho SE, Tetra & Prophet. The pack contains: drums, basses, leads, arpeggiators and sequencers. 100% royalty free!
Before you buy it, please download the free pack made on MoPho and test it!

Store link: http://www.albaecstasy.ro/mopho-tetra…

The DSI Prophet 12 Module is now shipping

February 7, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on The DSI Prophet 12 Module is now shipping 

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Dave Smith Instruments has announced that its Prophet 12 Module is now shipping.

“We have had many requests from professional musicians for a small, easily portable version of the Prophet 12 keyboard, with all the same features and incredible sound,” says Smith. “The new Prophet 12 module is just that: it has all the power of the Prophet 12 keyboard – in fact, it has the exact same voice board – and it fits into a backpack.”

“People like small these days,” adds Smith. “Many musicians also have more than enough keyboards, or simply don’t use keyboards. The Prophet 12 module offers a sleek design that still gives you easy and incredibly fast and intuitive control over all parameters.”

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Lke its keyboard counterpart, the twelve-voice hybrid digital/analog Prophet 12 module not only boasts the greatest number of voices of any instrument from the distinguished designer to date, but each of those voices features four oscillators, capable of generating classic and complex waveforms, a sub-oscillator (Sub Octave), resonant low-pass filter and high-pass filter, and analog VCA.

Additional features include a tuned FEEDBACK path, a four-tap stereo DELAY per voice, expanded ARPEGGIATOR functionality, deep MODULATION capabilities, bi-timbral operation, and much more besides.

The CHARACTER section adds a variety of out of the ordinary wave-shaping and sound-sculpting options, like:

  • Girth (low shelf filtering that boosts low frequencies, with some extra harmonic modification at higher settings);
  • Air (high shelf filtering that boosts high frequencies, with some extra harmonic modification at higher settings);
  • Hack (reduces the bit depth of the mixed output from the oscillators);
  • Decimation (reduces the sample rate of the mixed output from the oscillators); and
  • Drive (emulates tape saturation).

The back panel I/O of the Prophet 12 module matches that of the Prophet 12 keyboard in almost all aspects – apart from featuring an external power supply in the interests of making it as compact and portable as possible. Headphones, Main/A Outputs, B Outputs, MIDI Thru, MIDI Out, MIDI In, Pedal 1, Pedal 2, Sustain, and USB connectivity are all available.

The Prophet 12 module has an MAP of US $2,199 and can be purchased from any authorized Dave Smith Instruments dealer. See the DSI site for more info.

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Module: Powerful Desktop Synthesizer

January 28, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Module: Powerful Desktop Synthesizer 

At the NAMM 2014, wecaught up with pioneer synthesizer design and engineer Dave Smith of Dave Smith Instruments. He was generous enough to give us a rundown of his latest electronic music equipment, the Prophet 12 Module, a powerful desktop version of the Prophet 12. It’s one of the best sounding synths we have heard in recent years.

 

Dave Smith interviewed on the new Prophet 12 desktop

January 25, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Dave Smith interviewed on the new Prophet 12 desktop 

Dave Smith demonstrates the new Prophet 12 desktop from Dave Smith Instruments at NAMM 2014.

NAMM 2014: Dave Smith Instruments – Showing off the Prophet 12

January 23, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on NAMM 2014: Dave Smith Instruments – Showing off the Prophet 12 

Here’s a presentation of the new Dave Smith Instruments P12 at the NAMM Show 2014.

Dave Smith P12 Module LIVE Performance Demo at NAMM 2014 on BBoyTechReport.com

Dave Smith: Introducing the Prophet 12 Module

December 19, 2013 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Dave Smith: Introducing the Prophet 12 Module 

Soundtrack composed 100% with Prophet 12!
Introducing the Prophet 12 Module, the same great sound engine of the Prophet 12 keyboard with enough portability to fit in a backpack! At twelve voices, the Prophet 12 boasts the greatest polyphony of any instrument designed by Dave Smith. Each voice features four oscillators capable of generating classic and complex waveforms, a sub-oscillator, resonant analog low-pass and high-pass filters, and analog VCAs. The new Character section adds a variety of wave shaping and sound sculpting options, like Drive, Hack, Decimation, Girth, and Air. Additional features include a tuned feedback path, a four-tap stereo delay per voice, expanded arpeggiator functionality, deep modulation capabilities, and bi-timbral operation. The LFOs, delay, and arpeggiator can all be synced, either to the internal clock or an external MIDI clock.

Prophet on Cloud Nine

December 18, 2013 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Prophet on Cloud Nine 

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Composed and performed by Gianni Proietti a.k.a. “Gattobus” using a DSI Prophet 08.
No other instruments were used, I just added a delay effect and a reverb.

Sweet coverage of the Mopho SE from Dave Smith Instruments

December 11, 2013 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Sweet coverage of the Mopho SE from Dave Smith Instruments 

It’s a Bigger Badder Mopho!
Mopho SE is the newest addition to DSI’s revered line of analog subtractive synthesizers. Building upon the same award winning voice architecture of the Mopho and Mopho Keyboard, the Mopho SE boasts huge sound in an ideally sized, portable, and elegantly designed package. Use it to create huge basses, creamy leads, and maniacal sequences.

The Mopho Sings!
The Mopho SE voice is composed of two analog oscillators, two sub octave generators, selectable 2- or 4-pole famed Curtis low-pass filter, three 5-stage envelope generators, four LFOs, a re-latchable arpeggiator, and a 16 x 4 step sequencer. Its voice also comes packed with 20 modulation sources and almost 50 destinations!

FM the filter to create metallic bell-like sounds and use the feedback path to add subtle or destructive harmonic content to your sound. Process external audio through the Mopho’s voice and add some analog warmth to any source. Mopho SE’s 100% analog signal path is powerful, monstrous, and sonically dynamic!

Prophet 08 First Experiment

December 1, 2013 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off on Prophet 08 First Experiment 

The Prophet ’08 truly signals the return of the classic Sequential Circuits Prophet synthesizers, in a beautiful, modern and ultra-stable programmable analog synthesizer! Building on the Poly Evolver keyboard, the Prophet ’08 offers eight voices of polyphony with a 100% analog signal path. The look is spot-on! Brand new, the Prophet ’08 already looks like it’s a classic vintage piece of history. And its sound really does blow you away!

Dave Smith is considered a legendary figure in the synthesizer world, he founded Sequential Circuits and designed such classics as the Prophet 5 and Prophet VS, and he was a pioneer in bringing MIDI to synthesizers. The new for 2007 Prophet ’08 brings back much of the original technology from those old Prophets (like Curtis filters and analog oscillators), updated of course, to meet today’s musicians needs.

While it doesn’t sound exactly like an original P5, it does sound and behave more like one than any other pretender. It’s cleaner, purer and a little more predictable than its 25 year old predecessors. Actually, it sounds just like the Poly Evolver, minus the digital oscillators.

Regardless, the Prophet ’08 is truly a modern day Prophet series synth. Unlike many (Roland) synths that are attaching vintage model names to their current synths even though they are almost nothing alike (Juno, SH, etc.), the Prophet ’08 is the real-deal next generation version of its predecessors. As DSI says, the Prophet ’08 is the product of evolution, not nostalgia. Of course, it includes features we now take for granted, like velocity and aftertouch. Add to that performance features like an arpeggiator, gated step sequencer, and the ability to split and layer sounds. The modulation possibilities are much deeper than anything Sequential ever produced, making it capable of producing sounds the “classics” simply could not.

Background video description:

This is the first video I’ve made with the Prophet 08. It’s a chord sound inspired by a demonstration of the 8-voice SEM. Just playing a chord progression with it. I hope you like!

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