New Sequential Synth Coming

by **desmond** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:15 pm

Sequential Prophet X.
Five octave, full-size keyboard... :thumbup:

Looks like two analog oscillators, and two sample playback oscillators...

Teaser vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjNFleS8e4

by **Dave B** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 10:56 pm

As Chevytraveller commented elsewhere, I wonder if it will have wave sequencing? That would be stunningly brilliant.

And if it doesn't, then they can call the one that does the Prophet VX...

by **The Elf** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 6:46 am

Well it certainly looks the business. Very nice. Here's hoping they didn't forget aftertouch...

by **Stickman0_3** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 4:15 pm

I'd certainly like to see a rack mount version of this, maybe in the same casing as the Dave Smith Prophet 12 rack?

by **resistorman** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:24 pm

Nice! Tabletop too, please!

by **Blott** » Tue May 01, 2018 1:27 am

The Elf wrote:Well it certainly looks the business. Very nice. Here's hoping they didn't forget aftertouch...

Every Dave Smith synth to date has had aftertouch, so I can't see them dropping it on a new flagship synth.

They tease that it's hybrid. If by hybrid they mean a combination of DSP and analogue oscillators then this synth will definitely be on my shopping list.

Being able to add your own samples might be nice too, but in my experience with past instruments that offered this, it is something that is better in theory than it actually is in reality.

For me a high polyphony count (like the 16 voices on the Rev2) and a mixture of oscillator types would be perfect!

Keeping my fingers crossed.

by **Dave B** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:05 pm

So specs are now starting to show up. Interesting stuff ....

* Sample import via a USB drive
* 4 LFOs
* 4 Envelopes
* 2 'instrument' (sample) sources and 2 oscillators
* sample looping controls on dedicated knobs - nice
* digital oscillators
* analogue filters
* it looks like there is a matrix for modulation source/destination - could be interesting
* 150Gb of samples with room for 50Gb of yours
* 8 voice stereo or 16 voice mono
* bi timbral

Which all seems great to me. The bad news is that it's list price is £3359. Ouch! That puts it head to head with the Waldorf Quantum in my book. So I'm not sure which I'd want.

by **desmond** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:13 pm

Dave B wrote:The bad news is that it's list price is £3359. Ouch! That puts it head to head with the Waldorf Quantum in my book. So I'm not sure which I'd want.

Yeah, it was always going to be £3K+.

The Quantum is a lovely looking/designed thing but doesn't seem to do sounds you can't get elsewhere. Although I guess that's true for 95% of synths these days...

by **Stephen Bennett** » Wed May 02, 2018 9:44 am

This does look exactly what I've always wanted (though I'd have preferred a couple of analog oscillators too). I have a Nord Wave and would have loved that to have analog filters—this looks like a 'mega Wave' in many ways, assuming sample import happens.

5 octaves and wheels as well. Nice. The Quantum looks really nice too.

I wonder when Behringer will clone them? :bouncy:

Stephen

by **Guido3** » Thu May 03, 2018 4:20 pm

I’m just waiting on a call back from the devil to see how much he will give me for my soul!!!

by **Kwaidan** » Mon May 07, 2018 10:31 am

Dave B wrote:* 150Gb of samples with room for 50Gb of yours

Which all seems great to me. The bad news is that it's list price is £3359. Ouch! That puts it head to head with the Waldorf Quantum in my book. So I'm not sure which I'd want.

you are paying more for the 150GB of samples by 8DIO than you are the synth itself. probably talking £2.5k for the samples alone onboard.

by **Escapegoat** » Thu May 10, 2018 4:49 pm

Kwaidan wrote:you are paying more for the 150GB of samples by 8DIO than you are the synth itself.

Nonsense. The retail pricing you/I pay as an individual will be nothing like the licencing deal that Dave Smith got for hundreds (thousands?) of synths. Because there's an 8/16 voice limit on the Prophet X. That's a limit that a serious composer doesn't encounter on his/her computer with 8DIO sample libraries. So 8DIO have been able to sell the sample data to a new market at a lower per-sample price without unduly pi55ing off their existing clients.

And, AFAICS, the synth hardware is a P12+ with the additional leading-edge hardware that allows on-the-fly loading of large samples from the server-spec SSD. Did you see that video yet - it's not like waiting for a Kronos or Fantom to load a sample. Plus - there's all of the analogue VCF/VCA signal path.

You'll have to tell me where I can get a synth with that amount of processing power, control set and high-end hardware for £1000?

Please.

by **Ben Asaro** » Sun May 20, 2018 12:56 pm

This looks super cool, fortunately I have no space for a dedicated keyboard synth of this size.

At this price point I would probably be more tempted by the OB6, or Deckard’s Dream.

Personally, I am still GASing over the Novation Peak ... something about the sound of that synth ticks a lot of boxes or me!

by **The Elf** » Sun May 20, 2018 2:02 pm

Ben Asaro wrote:Personally, I am still GASing over the Novation Peak ... something about the sound of that synth ticks a lot of boxes or me!

You and me both - but take a look at the Elektron Analog Keys - that is a fabulous synth that has really turned my head! I'm late to the party, but I'm glad I got there...

by **BJG145** » Sun May 20, 2018 4:11 pm

The Elf wrote:...the Elektron Analog Keys - that is a fabulous synth that has really turned my head! I'm late to the party, but I'm glad I got there...

Huh?! Next week - Elf reviews the Elka Synthex... :shh:

by **Dave B** » Sun May 20, 2018 4:43 pm

What??? Synths are polyphonic now?????

Why didn't anyone mention this????

:bouncy:

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