Published
Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 17:42
- The venerable synth maker has shaved off the keyboard but none of the functionality from its poly-synth.
A new version of Dave Smith Instruments' Prophet-6 has been announced.
The Prophet-6 Desktop loses the original version's keyboard—and not a whole lot else. The synthesizer, a kind of tribute to Dave Smith's classic Sequential Prophet-5, still features six voices built from analog voltage-controlled oscillators, filters and amplifiers, as well as high resolution digital effects and menu-diving-free, one-knob-per-function control. Only now, as the company puts it, the synth is "small enough to fit in a backpack." The big new feature here is poly chain, meaning any Prophet-6 can be chained to any other to achieve 12-voice polyphony. No word yet on the release date, but select online retailers are already taking preorders.
The Prophet-6 Desktop is coming soon from Dave Smith Instruments for a suggested retail price of $2,199.