Brand: Sequential Circuits International
Model: Prophet 5
Link: http://www.vintagesynth.com/sci/p5.php
BLURB:
This synth is hailed as a classic. It is a stunning machine. It can make gentle pads, hollow whispering leads, thumping basses and screeching horrific noises. It’s sound is absolutely glorious! We have owned ours for about 8 years, in this time it’s dropped it’s memory several times, broken down, almost set itself on fire and breathed AWESOMENESS into every track it’s touched. The Prophet 5 is a very temperamental Diva, but when she works, Gods and Demons run for cover…!
PROS:
It has an amazingly fast attack time for an analogue synth. It’s capable of making glassy harmonics and pounding basses. Brilliant sound. It has a UNISON button that stacks all 10 oscillators to make the UBER MONO HELL SOUND. It also has a very primative MIDI.
CONS:
It overheats, the keyboard is falling apart, it has a nasty habit of dumping it’s memory, it works when it feels like it…
It’s MIDI is OMNI (it plays all 16 MIDI channels, so you can’t set it to listen to only one channel), it’s MIDI does not accept pitch, modulation…just note on/off.
