In this video, Keyboard magazine’s Stephen Fortner visits Dave Smith for an extended demo of the new all-discrete analog Sequential 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.
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I want the Prophet 12 and the Prophet 6. I guess I’ll have to wait for the Prophet 18.
Smh… Another cheap toy…
I wanted a Prophet 5 for ages but given the problems of owning an old synth like that,this thing is just a dream come true. Different sound but same layout, I need to get saving!!!
Why cannot Dave be my grandfather?
Because he is the Daddy.
i LOVE this guys voice. so cool.
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It’s very expensive for what it can do. Especially for musicians in Europe. It looks and sounds nice, but, I’ll wait for a more affordable option.
I love all the DSI synths I’ve had the pleasure of using, but I feel it needs to be said, consider this an intervention. The company needs to get over matching the number of synth voices to their twee numbering schemes. Six is a really weird number of voices. I can’t help but feel the only reason they didn’t make it 8 is that there is already a Prophet 08 with 8 voices (that was released for 2008). Dave, if you’re working on a 16 voice poly for next year… please, don’t name it the Prophet 16. We get the joke already.
#rekt
Other 6 voice synths:
Juno 6
juno 60
juno 106
alpha juno 1 & 2
korg poly 6
korg poly 61
Jx-3p
jupiter 6
Memory moog
Lots of weirdos out there…
Good point. But here’s another one…
Prophet 5: 5 octave keyboard.
Prophet 6: 4 octave keyboard.
Nonetheless, It’s still on my want list.
Not forgetting the Prophet 600, and the Six Trak. So yeah, it’s not like Dave Smith’s never made a six-voice before. Two more discrete voices would push the price right up, so keeping this synth marketable to the average muso was a wise decision. People are already saying it costs too much for what it does, the ones that want everything to do everything; but it sounds great. Dave Smith knows this thing will sell like hot cakes, with one hopefully making its way to my studio.
was this recorded with a cell phone?
The interviewer sound like Alex Jones – i kept expecting him to blow up into a preaching rant!
Quite lame to get an audience with Dave, for the purpose of showcasing the P6, and not having a hi-fi direct out audio stream from the unit. Waste of time.
What is the blueish synth with a million knobs (second from the left, near the window)?
Ok got it Polyevolver