Hm, if you think about what you're getting for the price, with a polyphonic analog that sounds good, complaining about the knobs kinda misses the point for me ..;)
Dito, I'm giving away my age a bit, but I remember in 1983, when MIDI first came out. My first synth was a Roland Juno-60 cost $1,700...even back then.
I tested one at a music store...I was shocked by the "sissing" noise from the headphone output; it has great sounds but it feels very cheap with the plastic sheet and the tiny buttons; I wish Yamaha/Roland would manufacture it; still a lovely synth though.
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Yeah, thats true somewhat. Some sound weak. Look at the Absynth though. It's digital and no analog synth is capable of it's sounds. And the Way Out Ware TimeWarp is indistinguishable from the original Arp 2600. Thats a fact by looking at the waveforms and hearing it.
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hahaha... what a lame
but there is some trube.. becouse all those guys on this fcukin movies shows this excelent instrumenst playing a dumb shit... i cant see any video where some guy is showing a prophet / virus / nord playing some dirty electro / minimal / Tech fat sounds...
Hey Krissnovak, at least check your spelling when you type stupid things about other people. It makes you look very foolish, like a 4th grader, hint hint.
I've had a rev 3 proph5 , and I'm another of the many who've owned one who rate the P8 too ( check all the online reviews). It's also not supposed to be a replica of the P5 ; it's a different synth. It does way more than the p600 in terms of range. If you want a p5, get a P5 ..
Agreed! Plus, it's even better than the Prophet 5 or 10, for that matter! The Evolver, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast, all together....
Thank God for Dave Smith!! He knows (exactly) just what in the hell he's doing!
Lol guys iam not dissing it , but ive been using real analogs and as real as this new one is its not fully voltage controlled and its oscillators whilsist sounding good arnt as nice as the old prophet 5 nor is the filter, a lot of people have never ever used an old one, even the sos review said it sounds closer to the 600 than the prophet 5 and it does, a rolls royce is a car and so is a ford escort mark 1 but one is better than the other.!
Tasty sizzly business. We have a p-8 in in our project studio. .. Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble- .nothing snaps, crackles and pops quite like this synth !
I've tried it out miamigroove and there's a *much* wider range of tones there on than on the p600 . The chips have been tweaked, and the sound is often halfway between the evolver and the P5 - much ballsier and more colorful than the p600.
please dont hate for me saying this...but...as an owner of an original P5 AND my first synth, a Prophet-600, I must say the P-8 video sounds a lot like my Prophet 600...albeit much better Mod features...ive yet to demo the P-8...anybody know how it sounds vs. a P-600? I really dont want to spend 2K to get a P-600 with awesome mod features & an LCD...!(PS. My real P-5 is noticeably fatter than my P-600)
It shouldn't sound like a P5. Actually the P600 should be pretty darn close. They both have a pure analog signal path, but both the P600 and P08 have a fully alalog signal path coupled to digitally generated modulators. It's not a remake of the P5, it's a DCO synth with an analog signal path. I'm sure you can get some P5 like sounds, but I'd be willing to bet you can get a lot more P600 sounds from it.
If I had thousand$ at my disposal I would say "Korg sucks" too. If I could afford a Phatty or a Dave Smith I could say a lot of things. As it is I had to scrape my pennies together and sell one of my bass guitars just so I could buy a USED Microkorg on Ebay.
doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a rompler or va, but as said below mod routings aren't simple ..+it sounds a lot better than digital synths like the virus !
This board is not anything like a Moog or Virus. In fact you would be let down if you had expectations as such. This is a simple design with very limited features compared to the Moog or Virus. It has limited Filters with only a Low Pass and 3 wave sources with no on board FX! However less can be best if your new to programming. I have owned one since the first week of release.
The new prophet sounds well wicked! Ave got a dave smith evolver and its great. Hey doktorfuture check out the evolver, thats monophonic and it has the exact same features and much more, cheaper aswell.
the evolver's a great synth too Morne , but the general view is that the PO8 has a pretty different sound to the analog end of the evo ( the sound chips have been worked on)
Yea just found that out today! i just looked at the basic specs on a shop website and thought "its just an ev with 8 voices" but i read the review of it in a mag and seen that its not. If only if santa would bring me one insted of socks lol
Check the audio demos and the official review at Keyboardmag. As they say, in it's price range, this could actually be ´"possibly the best-sounding, most fun-to-play analog polysynth in the history of keyboards".
...and the Nords, the Voyagers, and the Viruses used to give me wet dreams...
What a terrible demo, how to make a fiarly expensive synth sound crap!
NoGoodNameWasFree 2 years ago
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SORRY WAY TOO CLEAN AND NEW-SYNTH FOR ME. NO SOUL.
and what´s with the toykeyboads-organ-crap????? the old one is WAY BETTER-
callelillsunde 2 years ago
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callelillsunde 2 years ago
whoever that is doing the demo is a cutie :)
Rocinante01 2 years ago
download the presets from the manufacturers website.
KittyGotSued 3 years ago
I like the choice of demo fine - maybe you should look at :
/watch?v=NXr83s0imPY ( paste to your address bar ) for the 08 instead.
californiabass 3 years ago
Hm, if you think about what you're getting for the price, with a polyphonic analog that sounds good, complaining about the knobs kinda misses the point for me ..;)
californiabass 3 years ago 9
Dito, I'm giving away my age a bit, but I remember in 1983, when MIDI first came out. My first synth was a Roland Juno-60 cost $1,700...even back then.
itwasallgoodinthe70s 3 years ago 2
reckon one of the big firms might try a new analog after the p8 being a big hit anyway. got one and lovin' it.
Diamond65765 3 years ago 3
horses for courses though - I found the build quality on the andromeda actually worse. sounds great, so..
Diamond65765 3 years ago
I tested one at a music store...I was shocked by the "sissing" noise from the headphone output; it has great sounds but it feels very cheap with the plastic sheet and the tiny buttons; I wish Yamaha/Roland would manufacture it; still a lovely synth though.
Aetila 3 years ago
Eh? Woah. You can actually change the tempo of the arpeggiator? And it has portamento and lfo's too? Weee... that's really exclusive indeed :P
GJ1986 3 years ago
Softs have their place, but analog circuits always provide something different.
GoldenColumn 3 years ago 3
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The NI pro 53 sounds a lot better (and is free!)
FlappyDraws 3 years ago
don't agree at all, sounds limp and sterile compared to this I'd say.
randcror 3 years ago 3
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Yeah, thats true somewhat. Some sound weak. Look at the Absynth though. It's digital and no analog synth is capable of it's sounds. And the Way Out Ware TimeWarp is indistinguishable from the original Arp 2600. Thats a fact by looking at the waveforms and hearing it.
generek 3 years ago
Nah not really ... the Pro53 sounds quite digital-uninteresting in my opinion.
huiuiuiui 3 years ago
hehehe
poor kid
peraloka 3 years ago 2
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hahaha... what a lame
but there is some trube.. becouse all those guys on this fcukin movies shows this excelent instrumenst playing a dumb shit... i cant see any video where some guy is showing a prophet / virus / nord playing some dirty electro / minimal / Tech fat sounds...
everywhere we can see a shit like this one vid...
krissnovak 3 years ago
Hey Krissnovak, at least check your spelling when you type stupid things about other people. It makes you look very foolish, like a 4th grader, hint hint.
itwasallgoodinthe70s 3 years ago
can you control each seperate voice on their own midi channels? like how virus/nord, others have on their midi stuff. thanks
ianandlucas 3 years ago
That "hotness" and colour in the sound that people describe is def . there - probably 'hotter' sounding than any previous Dave Smith synth.
GoldenColumn 3 years ago 3
also, the sos review compared it with the P600 in terms of *appearance and layout* rather than sound specifically. No question it's more versatile.
californiabass 3 years ago 3
I've had a rev 3 proph5 , and I'm another of the many who've owned one who rate the P8 too ( check all the online reviews). It's also not supposed to be a replica of the P5 ; it's a different synth. It does way more than the p600 in terms of range. If you want a p5, get a P5 ..
readyfresh 3 years ago 5
sounds very much analog.
cub005 3 years ago 3
Agreed! Plus, it's even better than the Prophet 5 or 10, for that matter! The Evolver, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast, all together....
Thank God for Dave Smith!! He knows (exactly) just what in the hell he's doing!
pacific707 3 years ago
still sounds to digital
malkytrance 3 years ago
What???? It's an analog synth! Haven't you been reading enough about this synth???
pacific707 3 years ago
It's an analog synth, for chrissakes!!! That's why it's so hot right now, and so popular and everyone wants to get their hot little hands on it!!
pacific707 3 years ago
The 2nd part of his username says it all really! :P
djsmithy 3 years ago
Lol guys iam not dissing it , but ive been using real analogs and as real as this new one is its not fully voltage controlled and its oscillators whilsist sounding good arnt as nice as the old prophet 5 nor is the filter, a lot of people have never ever used an old one, even the sos review said it sounds closer to the 600 than the prophet 5 and it does, a rolls royce is a car and so is a ford escort mark 1 but one is better than the other.!
malkytrance 3 years ago
Ford escort is a better rally car, and much better to drive. RR is better to pose in or relax!
Andronicus2007 3 years ago
Christ, Prophet 08 lined up right below a Voyager. The neo-old schooler dream?
Muskot 3 years ago 2
anyone know when the rack is coming out ?
californiabass 4 years ago
The rack version is currently for sale - everywhere, as of April 11, 2007....
pacific707 3 years ago 2
thanks for the answer Pacific.
californiabass 3 years ago
great for bubbling rippling pads, p5/evolver cross in the sound , cool .
boomplate 4 years ago
* way * more versatile n' bassy than the p600, too.
boomplate 4 years ago 4
comes through well on : /watch?v=Eh1BU8tY4Kc
boomplate 4 years ago 2
doh ! "lash and bubble" , even. I'm very glad I bought it.
cub005 4 years ago
The Prophet Series synthesizer, resurrected.
Sulaco516 4 years ago 2
Tasty sizzly business. We have a p-8 in in our project studio. .. Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble- .nothing snaps, crackles and pops quite like this synth !
GoldenColumn 4 years ago
why has Cutter's reply to the fart joke from last month gone to the top now ? ...the mysteriesof youtube...
waiting for my my p8 to ship..
californiabass 4 years ago
i bought one recently i like it its the prophet 5 of the 21st century awesome synth
pauleyh 4 years ago
I've tried it out miamigroove and there's a *much* wider range of tones there on than on the p600 . The chips have been tweaked, and the sound is often halfway between the evolver and the P5 - much ballsier and more colorful than the p600.
cub005 4 years ago
also good at cutting leads and bass..my first purchase of 2008 :)
cub005 4 years ago
please dont hate for me saying this...but...as an owner of an original P5 AND my first synth, a Prophet-600, I must say the P-8 video sounds a lot like my Prophet 600...albeit much better Mod features...ive yet to demo the P-8...anybody know how it sounds vs. a P-600? I really dont want to spend 2K to get a P-600 with awesome mod features & an LCD...!(PS. My real P-5 is noticeably fatter than my P-600)
miamigroove 4 years ago
Don't forget about YouTube audio compression. I don't see why it should sound less fatter than 05.
PimpMyFahrrad 4 years ago
It shouldn't sound like a P5. Actually the P600 should be pretty darn close. They both have a pure analog signal path, but both the P600 and P08 have a fully alalog signal path coupled to digitally generated modulators. It's not a remake of the P5, it's a DCO synth with an analog signal path. I'm sure you can get some P5 like sounds, but I'd be willing to bet you can get a lot more P600 sounds from it.
kimble02 4 years ago
it's not a p5 replica, but it definietly sounds stronger than the p600 in our setup , kimble ; a real and lash and bubbe !
cub005 4 years ago
much appreciated californiabass.
EmeraldSynth 4 years ago
on the kss forum someone said the polyphonic AT was going in the next os update coupla' months from now..
californiabass 4 years ago
thanks in advance.
EmeraldSynth 4 years ago
heard this at guitar center. warm with lots of presence. anyone know if you can transmit poly aftertouch to this baby ?
EmeraldSynth 4 years ago
cool wet fart sound @ 4:55
rg2027x 4 years ago
"cool wet fart sound @ 4:55"
If my farts sounded that good I wouldn't need this synth
digitalfucknbassline 4 years ago 5
hahaahhaahahahaahahhaahahahahahahahah ich lach mich tot
cutterstrophal 4 years ago
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sounds corny bet it costs a fortune too these sounds are sooo dated... nerds
blackkorg 4 years ago
Does it matter? They sound awesome. Actually, I'm planning on getting one of these as a poly synth, I already have a Little Phatty for leads.
Besides, Korg keyboards suck.
CKnoxW 4 years ago 2
yesss
buy it!
chickennoodle35 4 years ago
Good for you smart guy!
If I had thousand$ at my disposal I would say "Korg sucks" too. If I could afford a Phatty or a Dave Smith I could say a lot of things. As it is I had to scrape my pennies together and sell one of my bass guitars just so I could buy a USED Microkorg on Ebay.
craigdamage 4 years ago 3
In fairness though, the Korg mono/poly is a definite exception imho.
Its one of the best analogue synth ever made, up there with the likes of the P5.
Theres a 3 part demonstration on youtube, if you havent seen it already.
Its one of the best synth demos ive seen, the guys goes through every feature.
djsmithy 3 years ago 3
i love my korg m3!!!
but i love this prophet, too!
DrumKeys614 4 years ago
sounds kinda dark and fuzzy, liking it.
californiabass 4 years ago
doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a rompler or va, but as said below mod routings aren't simple ..+it sounds a lot better than digital synths like the virus !
alanpartridge25 4 years ago
also reckon no cheapy keyboard effects is actually better, with so many people having them built into their mixers and computer setups now...
cub005 4 years ago
straigtfowards design but the mod routings are very extensive - more than on the p5 actually. Plus the sound is *so * much better than the virus :.)
cub005 4 years ago
This board is not anything like a Moog or Virus. In fact you would be let down if you had expectations as such. This is a simple design with very limited features compared to the Moog or Virus. It has limited Filters with only a Low Pass and 3 wave sources with no on board FX! However less can be best if your new to programming. I have owned one since the first week of release.
deep6ixx 4 years ago
The new prophet sounds well wicked! Ave got a dave smith evolver and its great. Hey doktorfuture check out the evolver, thats monophonic and it has the exact same features and much more, cheaper aswell.
Morne555 4 years ago
the evolver's a great synth too Morne , but the general view is that the PO8 has a pretty different sound to the analog end of the evo ( the sound chips have been worked on)
cub005 4 years ago
Yea just found that out today! i just looked at the basic specs on a shop website and thought "its just an ev with 8 voices" but i read the review of it in a mag and seen that its not. If only if santa would bring me one insted of socks lol
Morne555 4 years ago
Andro...what?!
rvltion909 4 years ago
great demo. can this synth be used multitimbral?
metamatics 4 years ago
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It looks and sounds just like the Access Virus!
leslawrenson 4 years ago
Check the audio demos and the official review at Keyboardmag. As they say, in it's price range, this could actually be ´"possibly the best-sounding, most fun-to-play analog polysynth in the history of keyboards".
...and the Nords, the Voyagers, and the Viruses used to give me wet dreams...
MicroTones 4 years ago
Moog killer?
MicroTones 4 years ago
nah, dave was friends with bob.
lol.
HALEYeww 4 years ago
I'd buy it if it were monophonic
doktorfuture 4 years ago
because one voice is better than 8?
;)
Steril707 4 years ago
that is a nice filter !
michmakker 4 years ago
Hey man! THank you for this demo!
pdautg 4 years ago
Les tréteaux vintage en bois d'arbre sont top !
christianbraut 4 years ago