Dave Smith Instruments Sequential PROPHET 6 Manuale utente

Operation Manual

Version 1.0

June 2015

Dave Smith Instruments/Sequential

1527 Stockton Street, 3rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94133

USA

www.davesmithinstruments.com

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to

the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful inter-

ference and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including

interference that may cause undesired operation.

This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian

Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.

Cet appareil numerique de la classe B respecte toutes les exigences du

Reglement sur le materiel brouilleur du Canada.

For Technical Support, email: [email protected]

Table of Contents

A Few Words of Thanks ...............................ix

Getting Started........................................1

Sound Banks ...........................................2

Selecting Programs ......................................2

Editing Programs ........................................3

Comparing an Edited Program to its Original State ..............3

Creating a Program from Scratch ............................4

Live Panel Mode .........................................4

Saving a Program ........................................5

Canceling Save..........................................6

Moving to the Next Level ..................................7

Connections..........................................8

Global Settings ......................................10

Globals - Top Row ...................................... 11

Globals - Bottom Row....................................13

Oscillators ..........................................15

Oscillator Parameters ....................................16

Slop................................................18

Mixer ...............................................19

Filters ..............................................20

Filter Envelope.......................................22

Changing the Filter Envelope’s Response Curve ...............23

Amplier Envelope ...................................24

Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Main Parameters .......................................28

Low Frequency Oscillators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Poly Mod............................................33

Poly Mod Parameters ....................................34

Arpeggiator .........................................35

Arpeggiator Parameters ..................................36

Sequencer ..........................................37

Programming the Sequencer ..............................37

Sequencer Parameters...................................39

Distortion ...........................................41

Hold................................................42

Glide ...............................................42

Unison .............................................43

Using Chord Memory ....................................44

Write ...............................................46

Canceling Save.........................................47

Comparing Before You Save ..............................47

Globals .............................................48

Preset ..............................................49

Pitch and Mod Wheels ................................50

Pitch Wheel............................................50

Modulation Wheel .......................................51

Misc Parameters .....................................52

Aftertouch ..........................................53

Exporting Programs and Banks.........................55

Calibrating the Prophet-6 ..............................56

How and When to Calibrate the Oscillators and Filters ..........56

Calibrating the Pitch and Mod Wheels .......................57

Resetting the Global Parameters ...........................57

Using USB ..........................................58

Appendix A: Alternative Tunings ........................59

Appendix B: Troubleshooting and Support ...............63

Troubleshooting ........................................63

Contacting Technical Support ..............................64

Appendix C: MIDI Implementation .......................65

MIDI Messages.........................................66

NRPN Messages .......................................70

Control NRPN Data .....................................74

The following table lists the Prophet-6’s control NRPN data. It is

received and transmitted but not saved as part of a program. ....74

Sysex Messages........................................74

Packed Data Format ....................................77

The DSI Crew

Ashley Bellouin, Fabien Cesari, Bob Coover, Carson Day, Chris Hector, Tony Karavidas,

Mark Kono, Andrew McGowan, Joanne McGowan, Tracy Wadley, and Mark Wilcox.

Special thanks to Ikutaro Kakehashi and Yamaha Corporation. Thanks also

to Robert Rich for the alternative tunings content. And nally, a shout out to

OMOM (Old Men Of MIDI) for their support, camaraderie, and sound design.

Robert Rich

Matia Simovich

James Terris

Mitch Thomas

Taiho Yamada

Josheph Akins

John Bowen

Richard Devine

Peter Dyer

Tim Koon

Kurt Kurasaki

Kevin Lamb

Jason Lindner

Cord Mueller

Drew Neumann

Credits and Acknowledgements

Sound Design

A Few Words of Thanks

Thank you for purchasing the Prophet-6. We take a lot of pleasure in creating all

of our instruments but bringing the Prophet-6 to life was particularly satisfying.

In many ways it brings my 40-plus years of designing synthesizers full circle. I’ll

tell you why.

In 2014, two events occurred that led to the creation of the Prophet-6. The rst

was a fairly common one around our ofce — our usual informal discussion

about what would be interesting to build next. (We don’t do marketing surveys

around here.) We all agreed that an analog poly synth with true voltage-controlled

oscillators, lters, and ampliers would not only be exciting to design, but would

also almost certainly sound great. So we decided to do it.

Event two transpired when, unknown to me, my old friend and collaborator in the

creation of MIDI, Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, asked Yamaha Corporation

to consider returning ownership of my original company brand, Sequential Circuits,

to me. (Yamaha had purchased Sequential’s assets when we closed shop back in

1987.) Yamaha generously agreed and suddenly Sequential was back — almost. All

we needed was an awesome new product to bear the name.

Well, you know how the story ends: with the very synth you’ve just purchased. We

gured that building the best-sounding analog poly synth possible would be a tting

tribute to Sequential’s most famous instrument, the Prophet-5, the poly synth that

started it all.

The Sequential Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the Prophet-5 and adds some nice

touches that the original never had, such as stereo outputs, velocity and aftertouch

sensitivity, dual digital effects, a high-pass lter, a polyphonic step sequencer, an

arpeggiator, and of course, MIDI. The result is a synth with vintage analog tone and

the reliability of a state-of-the-art, modern instrument.

I hope you enjoy the Prophet-6 as much as we enjoyed designing it for you.

Cheers,

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