Marc Melià – Cloud Song (Music For Prophet 08)
Recorded at l’Abbaye de Forest in Brussels, May 2015. The song is part of the music I have been composing and performing exclusively with the synthesizer Prophet 08.
Concept & Editing: Marc Melià
Lighting and Set design: Meri Ekola
Camera Operators: Louise Baduel & Tanja Frinta
Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08: Drawbar Organ
This improvisation is meant to demonstrate the ability of the Prophet ’08 to imitate the sound of a drawbar organ. The pulse width modulation patch solo was played on a second P’08.
Background video description:
I’ve never been a fan of the Hammond Organ. I’ve owned several – most recently an XK 3c – and don’t regret selling them a bit. There are only a few drawbar settings that I like, and this patch is an imitation of one of them. However, the classic Hammond/drawbar organ sound positively requires a Leslie effect, or at least a Leslie simulator. Mere detuning is a lame substitute. This patch would greatly benefit from such a simulator.
Good organ playing requires an exacting technique. Because of the nature of the instrument’s envelope – having a sharp attack and an immediate release – it’s essential that notes played together be struck exactly at the same instant. Sad to say, I find that synthesizer keyboards do not meet the quality necessary so that such a precise attack can always be made. This is true for the Prophet ’08 and Poly Evolver Keyboard as well. I’ve noticed many times, especially when playing hymns or Bach chorales, that it’s nearly impossible to get the attacks of the notes to be crisp and clean, even with repeated tries of the same passages. The same is true for this piece. There are many instances when the strikes of simultaneous notes are not together, creating a smearing effect. That’s my disclaimer. There are many imperfections in this improvisation.
Here’s a bit of trivia. Although the Hammond Organ is now most widely used for rock and jazz, as well as Gospel music, its inventor, Laurens Hammond, in no way intended it to be so. He actually designed it to be used in churches as an inexpensive substitute for the pipe organ. It was meat to be used for traditional liturgical music, hymns, preludes, interludes, postludes, and so on. It has been used in many small churches, and I’ve had the misfortune of having to play a CV at a country parish, but I can say that…A HAMMOND IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A PIPE ORGAN!
Instrumentation:
DSI Prophet ’08 Keyboard (2)
DSI Prophet ’08 Module
DSI Evolver Desktop
Hammond XPK 200L
Effects:
Lexicon MX300
Alesis Nanoverb 2
Respectably Insane – Dave Smith Instruments – Sequential Prophet 6
The weird and wonderful world of the beautiful Prophet 6. Arpeggiated patch at very slow intervals and bpm with the occasional knob-twiddle for good measure. Recorded live in 1 take and the only effects are a touch of built-in chorus and BBD. Video shot separately just after the audio had been recorded, then spliced together.
Exploring the Sequential Prophet-6 Synth, Fun Tweak Preset 605
In this short video Bob Gomez shows some of the sound characteristics of Factory Preset 605 on the Prophet-6 Synthesizer. Most adjustments occur in the LFO section, with some attention to the Amp Env & Filter Env sections. Recorded direct to the Zoom Q3HD.
8-25-15.
Listening in on the mighty Sequential Circuits Prophet-10
This monster synth from 1980 , the Sequential Circuits Prophet 10 is used for all sounds in this Firechild track , This Is A Prophet. The Prophet 10 is simply two glorious Prophet 5 Rev3´s stacked together with some additional bonus features !
Sequential Prophet-6 – The Patche
This video series demonstrates the factory patches and sound of the Sequential Prophet 6 analog synthesizer. More demos coming soon, including patch creation and sequencing!
Tour of the DSI Prophet 6
The Prophet 6 is Dave Smith’s tribute to the poly synth Sequential Prophet-5. The Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the original Prophet-5—true voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers—and adds enhancements such as studio-quality effects, a polyphonic step sequencer, an arpeggiator, and more. The result is ‘pure, unadulterated analog tone’, with the stability and reliability of a state-of-the-art modern synth.
Background video description:
Rate! Subscribe! Comment! (if you’re polite and cool). Sonic tour of the not-yet-released Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6! This was sent to me to do some factory patches and I got the official Okay to create a video. So here it is – enjoy! This is one really SWEET sounding analog synthesizer.
Sequential Prophet 6 demo – Monophonic sounds – Peter Dyer
Background video information:
http://peterdyer.net
Thanks to the wonderful folks at DSI, I got to spend some time with the new Prophet 6, coming out June 2015. Here’s some monophonic sounds I dialed in. You’re hearing just the Prophet 6, recorded direct, played live or using the built-in sequencer/arpeggiator.
I wanted to share my take on what the Prophet 6 can do. This thing is a blast to play and a breeze to create on.
To hear some sounds with more vintage influence, check out pal Matia from INHALT’s fantastic sound demo here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8Qg…
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Hands on with the Sequential Prophet-6
Keyboard magazine visits Dave Smith for an extended demo of the new all-discrete analog Prophet-6 synthesizer.
The Prophet-6 is Dave Smith’s tribute to the classic sequential polysynth, the Prophet 5. But it’s not simply a reissue of a classic. Rather, as Dave puts it, “It’s the result of our effort to build the most awesome-sounding, modern analog poly synth possible.”
The Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the original Prophet-5—true voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers—and adds enhancements such as studio-quality effects, a polyphonic step sequencer, an arpeggiator, and more. The result is ‘pure, unadulterated analog tone’, with the stability and reliability of a state-of-the-art modern synth.
Details on the Prophet 6 are available at the DSI site.
Sequential Prophet-6 – NAMM 2015
Six-Voice Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer
The Dave Smith Instruments Sequential Prophet 6 is expected to ship in May, priced at about $2,800. See the DSI site for more info.
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