DSI announces Prophet 12!

[Sir Ruff]

I'm just really hoping they up the wavetable count. Being able to scan through smoothly them was sorely missed on the PEK, so if they are gonna do that here, I hope they at least give a healthy number of waves to work with (not just 4, or whatever it is stated as now). This of all things should be easy to increase.

[Bitexion]

But then it becomes wavetable synthesis, which is a whole different engine. I highly doubt they're going head to head with Waldorf's wavetable synths.

[Sir Ruff]

But then it becomes wavetable synthesis, which is a whole different engine. I highly doubt they're going head to head with Waldorf's wavetable synths.

It already has wavetable synthesis. The demos clearly show smooth transitioning between wavetables. I'm not expecting 100 wavetables or whatever, but 4 (based on standard waves) would be pretty boring. Just the VS waves (which was what I was basically expecting given the PEK lineage) with smoother morphing would be ace.

[lotus-eater]

One thing i'm a little confused by is Carson Day in two seperate video's i have watched makes it a point to say that the sub osc is for osc 1 (30 secs in the video linked here), yet Dave says its 5 osc (including sub osc) per voice for a stacked unison of 60 osc's.

I think he means there are four regular oscillators, but the suboscillator (the 5th osc) tracks below oscillator one. So if you have your four main oscillators tuned to different frequencies, the subosc tuning will always be related to osc one (likely one or two octaves below). In other words, only oscillator one has a suboscillator.

So yeah, 5 oscs (4 + sub) x 12 voices gives you 60 simultaneous oscillators.

[Bitexion]

Aye, sub-oscillator doesn't really count as an oscillator on its own, it's just a square wave that follows the main oscillator by an exact octave.

[Allthesound]

One thing i'm a little confused by is Carson Day in two seperate video's i have watched makes it a point to say that the sub osc is for osc 1 (30 secs in the video linked here), yet Dave says its 5 osc (including sub osc) per voice for a stacked unison of 60 osc's.

I think he means there are four regular oscillators, but the suboscillator (the 5th osc) tracks below oscillator one. So if you have your four main oscillators tuned to different frequencies, the subosc tuning will always be related to osc one (likely one or two octaves below). In other words, only oscillator one has a suboscillator.

So yeah, 5 oscs (4 + sub) x 12 voices gives you 60 simultaneous oscillators.

Thanks for clearing that up that makes perfect sense. I'm not sure how i got confused by that what was i thinking? . Doh!

[Stab Frenzy]

I'm just really hoping they up the wavetable count. Being able to scan through smoothly them was sorely missed on the PEK, so if they are gonna do that here, I hope they at least give a healthy number of waves to work with (not just 4, or whatever it is stated as now). This of all things should be easy to increase.

It's got four wavetables, not four waves. I don't know how many waves per table, but it could be 20 or more.

[ravenmek]

I'm just really hoping they up the wavetable count. Being able to scan through smoothly them was sorely missed on the PEK, so if they are gonna do that here, I hope they at least give a healthy number of waves to work with (not just 4, or whatever it is stated as now). This of all things should be easy to increase.

It's got four wavetables, not four waves. I don't know how many waves per table, but it could be 20 or more.

3 waves per wavetable!

[volumetrik]

so can someone explain to me about this Prophet 12 since its been all confusing

the Prophet 12 is based on the legendary Prophet VS (same technology) just more control/features and better sound, is that what it is?

[burnsjed]

In every video I have seen DS describes it as the best of the Prophet 08 and the best of the PEK with a bunch of new and additional features.

[bhrama]

[Bitexion]

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[Bitexion]

so can someone explain to me about this Prophet 12 since its been all confusing

the Prophet 12 is based on the legendary Prophet VS (same technology) just more control/features and better sound, is that what it is?

Nah has very little with the VS to do, it's more an extension of the Prophet-5/10 with lots of added bells & whistles + digital oscillators with wavetables from the evolver/poly evolver.

Dave says it's his best synth so far, but he'd say that about any new synthesizer to sell it, of course

[sensorium]

I would say that this thing being halfway down on page 2 already is probably not a good sign for DSI.

[Bitexion]

Oh, there's only about 10.15 regular posters on this board, so I wouldn't take that as a gauge for the worldwide interest