![]() If you don't have that kind of cash to spend on an original Prophet VS, the software company Arturia makes a virtual software version of the Prophet known as the Prophet V. The VS rack can sell for double that since it's considered by many to be the "Holy Grail" of synthesizers and less then 1000 were made making it a rare instrument. Original Prophets still command a high price and when one gets offered for sale it usually sells for a least $1000. The OS revision of a VS can be checked during power up. ![]() The Prophet also included a very small amount of RAM that you can use to load in your own samples via the Midi sample dump standard. The hybrid of digital and analogue helped make the Prophet VS sound very unique. Four of these waveforms are assigned to the oscillator slots and they are then processed by an analogue signal path, with low-pass filters based on the Curtis chips the same that were used in the Prophet 5. The Prophet VS included 96 waveforms which were all 12-bit samples. It uses a total of four oscillators per voice with 127 waveforms (32 user) and waveform crossfading using the joystick. The Prophet VS used Vector Synthesis as its revolutionary new means of sound creation. But perhaps their most innovative instrument (and one of my favorite synths) turned out to be one of their last products produced, The Prophet VS digital synthesizer. ![]() Who can forget the amazing Prophet T8 with it's weighted keys and classic Prophet sound. The Studio 440 was the first sampling drum machine and The Prophet 2000 was one of the first affordable digital samplers. Their first synthesizer, the Prophet-5 was the first programmable synth. Sequential Circuits created many innovative products during their ten year run from 1977 to 1987.
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