Gestures Gear VBlog: Roland Juno-106 and Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 Duet

Casey plays a quick jam on the Juno-106 and Prophet 600, recorded into Cubase with no EQ or effects. The first half is played with the Juno providing chords and the Prophet providing the lead, before Casey swaps over for the second half.

There is a lot of talk about the slow envelopes of the Prophet 600 but I haven't seen many clips on Youtube really show what it sounds like when in action. Mostly, its flattering strings/pad synth videos that sound incredible. In truth, the envelopes are not a problem for a lot of sounds and it really does sound AMAZING as a string synth, but there are some sounds that are problematic for the software envelopes.

When Casey is soloing on the Prophet, the slows envelopes sound fine and the Prophet VCO sound really cuts through as a nice lead compared to the mellower Juno. However, once Casey switches over to comping on the Prophet the lag of the envelopes becomes quite obvious and distracting. Clearly not a job the Prophet will be filling in our music.

More videos of the Prophet and the Juno are to come. Apologies for the shallow depth of field - still getting used to filming with a Canon 5D.

About us:
The Accumulated Gestures are an 8-piece neo-soul/funk band from Perth, Western Australia. With lead vocalist/producer Donovan de Souza being an avid collector of synthesizers and vintage keyboards as well as a current move towards incorporating more synthesizers in our band sound, our Gear VBlog aims to show the strengths and limitations of synth interfaces, synthesizers and other musical gear. The kind of videos Donovan would have liked to see when he was buying electronic gear in the first place.

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• Prophet 5
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• slow envelopes
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[rolandsh1000]

were both the filter and the VCA envelope attacks set to minimum on the P600?

if not, the attack can be quite slow, but if set at the minimum, the P600 has about a 4-6ms attack, which is pretty reasonable...

[AccumulatedGestures]

@rolandsh1000

Hi, saw your video. I believe the issue comes about when there is more polyphony. As a monophonic synth I think there is less data going to the RAM to deal with and it does it fine, but the moment you have more notes playing it becomes much less responsive. Can't remember what the settings were on the synth at the time, though.

[shayeasy]

why compare how well the sound cuts through when the patches on display are totally different?