DSI Prophet 8

piRoN · Post by **piRoN** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:10 pm

I'd still be surprised if it was anything more than an announcement though. A small company like DSI couldn't afford to sink time and money into a rackmount design without first knowing if the base unit was going to be successful or not.

But I could be wrong, of course. I tempt thee, perversity!

marzzz · Post by **marzzz** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:03 pm

Stab Frenzy wrote:Don't forget the P'08 has poly chain out.

Exactly- unless the LinnDrum took up all of DSI's time, we are probably seeing a Prophet Rack in the near future, if not at NAMM. But oh, I would just kill for a desktop version with all the knobs....!!!

Villi · Post by **Villi** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:56 pm

I as much as I'd want it I doubt it'll have any knobby interface, as if you had a p08 and just wanted double polyphony (which is what you use poly-chain for, isn't it?), you wouldn't wan't to pay for the interface all over again, now would you? But if they did make a useable interface though (for example phatty-like) it would be great.

alan partridge · Post by **alan partridge** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:33 pm

maybe a rack with a bit less on the voices end, & cutdown design ?

piRoN · Post by **piRoN** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:45 pm

I doubt it. They already cut down heavily on the functionality from the Evolvers in order to be able to make an 8-voice polysynth feasible at that pricepoint. The fact that it's pretty much a straight-up analogue poly with a decent polyphony is it's main selling point. Take out the features, and it would become boring. Take out the voices, and you alienate your target market.

alan partridge · Post by **alan partridge** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:29 pm

guess so , maybe we'll have some other firms analog gear to chew on from the NAMM things too.

alan partridge · Post by **alan partridge** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:58 pm

bloody h**l - fast work from dsi! -)

http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx?ty ... 76&mid=267

Villi · Post by **Villi** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:19 pm

Stunning

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:32 pm

Hope they sort the knobs out.

PS. I told you so.

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:43 pm

I reckon it's just because they have models of the old knobs in their render program but not the new ones.

felis · Post by **felis** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:48 pm

BF wrote: but here is the real deal

SWEET!

clusterchord · Post by **clusterchord** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:51 pm

BF wrote:here is the real deal

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/p8m/

fantastic. well, i wasn't too far off with my photoshop rendition based on TI..

. tho i kept beautiful knobs from the keyboard version. this one has PEK/Evo knobs if im not mistaken..

i hoped they'd come out with this product. now all we need is the price..

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:11 pm

$1649

MrFrodo · Post by **MrFrodo** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:19 pm

I'm sure this has already been asked, but I'd still like to ask it.

Have any of you had the chance to compare the Prophet 08 with any of the original Sequential gear? For instance, I'd like to hear it compared with the Prophet T8 and P-600.

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:25 pm

MrFrodo wrote:I'm sure this has already been asked, but I'd still like to ask it.

Use the search function you moron.