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The Prophet 12 by Dave Smith Instruments - now called Sequential - is a hybrid Analogue synthesizer. It features digital oscillators, a digital processor, digital feedback and four digital delays. On the analogue side it has the Curtils lowpass filters, known from old Sequential Circuit instruments like the Prophet 5, an analogue highpass filter and analogue distortion. Add four powerful LFOs, four envelopes in total and specific performance controls. Here's a detailed Prophet 12 demo video by Dave Smith Instruments. You may find many more videos and sound examples on the net.
The Prophet 12's featureset would be useless, especially to a blind person, without a comprehensiive user interface. That is where this synthesizer wins hands down everytime. With the latest OS - 1.4 as of January 2019 - the Prophet 12 is fuly accessible, if you put your mind to it. The instrument becomes a sound designer's dream, whether they be sighted or blind.
To date, Jeanette has created five complete soundbanks. Here's a demo video of bank number four. The first four banks have been released under the name of "Jeanny's Genius" as a bundle, including categorised listings of all patches, ordered either by bank, synthesis technoique, sound type, suggested genre or sonic description. There is also the song Indian summer by Jeanette, showing the Prophet 12 in a real world situation. This also includes the first sounds of bank five.
List of available soundsets
"Jeanny's Genius - Prophet-12 soundset, part 5" (28.11KB) The fifth full bank of sounds for the Sequential Prophet 12 by Jeanette C. brings you almost 150 patches ranging from acoustic sounds, to basses, drums, pads and strings, plucks, stabs andsounds for arpeggios and sequences, leads, rhythmic textures and more. In the archive you will find a README with the full, annotated list of sounds, including types/categories, genres, sound colours and employed synthesis. You will also find the mapped performance controls for each sound. If you think they are worth it and can afford it, I would always appreciate a donation to keep me in tea, and thus inspiration. :) You'[ll find a PayPal account listed in the README.
"Jeanny's Genius - Prophet-12" (841.82KB) Jeanny's Genius - Prophet-12 is a collection of currently four soundsets for the Dave Smith Instruments / Sequential Prophet-12 hybrid analogue synthesizer. The first versions of these soundsets were known as the FS soundset. New additions include a full documentation and a browsable list of sounds (by souyndset, sound type, sound colour, genre and synthesis).
"JBS 3 soundset for the DSI Prophet-12" (188.71KB) This is the third soundset by Jeanette for the DSI / Sequential Prophet-12 hybrid analogue synthesizer. It uses all 99 patches and always(!) both layers of a patch, so do listen to layer B, you may be surprised. Another eclectic collection of sounds, from effects to simply playable. Big pads, biting leads, fat basses. Take your pick.
"JBS 2 soundset for the DSI Prophet-12" (185.12KB) This is the second soundset by Jeanette for the DSI / Sequential Prophet-12 hybrid analogue synthesizer. It uses all 99 patches and always(!) both layers of a patch, so do listen to layer B, you may be surprised. Imitations of other instruments, experiments in more advanced modulation and design techniques, as well as straight forward sounds that can fit anywhere.
"JBS 1 soundset for the DSI Prophet-12" (162.02KB) This is the first soundset by Jeanette for the DSI / Sequential Prophet-12 hybrid analogue synthesizer. It uses all 99 patches and always(!) both layers of a patch, so do listen to layer B, you may be surprised. You will find a lot of classic sounds, to be made with any analogue or virtual analogue synthesizer, but also deep forays into the Prophet's modulation capabilities.