GS Music E7 vs Sequential Prophet 6: the BEST new analog synth? 

With all my love for Sequential, the GS e7 won me over. Brilliant from Argentina

Thanks for this video. I actually just received my E7 today and it's incredible

Something about the triangle wave oscillator on the E7 is one of the most incredible sounding triangle waves I’ve ever heard. The whole synth sounds so good!

I’m looking at both of these right now, so I’m excited to hear your thoughts. Thanks for putting this together!

After you convinced me to get a Summit, which I really like, I've been thinking about the E7 and now you have thrown a review up it seems to be right up my street.

Wooohoo new channel unlock ❤ wow dude great videos i am inspired to make music onthis holiday.

Thanks for the video, amazing synth🤗🙏

Wow, love that intro jam!

The E7 is pretty great - hope more people get their hands on one!

"Both" has been my solution to these issues.

Wow sounds freaking awesome!!!

Intro jam was awesome. Damn I want the synths

Thanks as always for the demo/review! I had both. I really really loved the tone of the GS E7, but in daily use i couldn't get past the filter quirks. The loss of bass was so immediate with any use of the resonance that i ended up so often having to move to my modular instead. I think the prophet is more versatile, and has better effects overall, and a used one will cost just a touch more than a new GS, which was amazing when it launched at 1250, but now at 1700 is slightly harder to factor in. I think the GS is vibier overall, more inspiring, but works only if one has another few synths, it would be hard to consider as a main axe for me. The prophet on the other end is 94% there, vibe wise, but could potentially be a one for all starter analog. I hope GS has a way of maintaining the amazing sound with a more versatile VCF and a slightly improved digital chorus.

Sounds really nice

Well done, fantastic vid and Perfect Circuit have sold out now! I must admit the E7 sounds great, but I do still love my P6. I'd be very interested in a comparison between the E7 & 3rd Wave though. Not necessarily a 'Versus', but how they could compliment each other as a Digital/Analog combo with the Ladder, State Variable & Prophet filters. Although I'd def watch a 'Versus' video too!

Amazing sounds ☺♥♪

I mean... holy shite analog poly's are just so cool. E7 sounds so good. I'm so proud to own a P6. I'll go months without touching it then one day it will suck me in and take me away. Thanks Miles.

I like the chorus on the E7. It sounds as good as stuff you'd find in DAWs and such. Also cool on the E7 is the really small OLED. It is so crisp. That surprised me. I think for my money I'd take the E7 even though the module workflow is a challenge for me in terms of ergonomics. I'd prefer an integrated instrument with a keybed and all. Modules are just, well, awkward. The only way to work them is sort of that L shape you got setup in this video. Still, I bought one. That said I'm sure I would be happy with the P6 as well. It sounds nice too. Extra voice on the E7 is also maybe a point to the E7? Every little bit helps in that department. More of an exponential curve on the envelopes is also a bit of a point for the E7 I guess. I've always found sequential envelopes kind of difficult to dial in. Linear envelopes might be just weird though I don't know. Unnatural a bit in both sound and behaviour. I'd give the E7 a nod in the sound department too but that's a subjective thing. No point in debating. Just go with what you like more personally. Great comparison thanks.

Fantastic demo as Always 👌 🎶 so hard to split these up 🤔 so I would say if you have a budget the E7 is the winner🏆🤩 🙌

extreme cool intro!

Killer track! I almost bought the E7 but ended up with the Trigon-6 as my poly synth

Great comparison! The E7 sounds ultra vintage, fat and drifty in a lovely way. The P6 sounds cleaner, more modern and slightly thinner. I love my Toraiz AS-1 (one P6 voice but gain staged for a thicker sound) paired with a Minilogue XD for a compact desktop setup :)

Спасибо за хороший обзор!

I truly believe the e7 is destined to be a future classic.

Miles - this is GREAT! Thank you for this review/comparison. You might have covered it and I missed it, but what about the HPF of the P6? That was something I was kind of digging about that board when I tried it out recently. I found the P6 so easy to get around, but the E7 looks very straightforward as well.

I believe if you assign mod wheel to P6 filter cutoff you can do smooth filter sweeps with high resonance without pitch quantizing.

P6 all the way!

Use the Modwheel on the Prophet for filter sweeps

Cool review. This would be a tough decision. But Sequential has a great reputation for service. I wonder how reliable the E7 is for the long run?

Sequential synths have quantized filter cut-off, so that when you turn up the resonance into self oscillation, the filter is quantized to half notes. It makes it much easier to "tune" the filter if you want to play the self oscillation as an oscillator. The vintage Prophets does this too. But when the filter cut-off is modulated by an envelope or LFO, the cut-off point moves smoothly.

Are the capabilities similar? What about the polymod functions of the Prophets? Does the GS Music E7 have this?

I love my e7. I think sometimes it’s a bit intense in the mids, can muddle up the mix without some EQing. The Prophet just drops in any track with like no effort, though. I think that’s partly why it’s such a classic. Both synths friggin rip, though!

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are you gain maching the synts? somethimes the diferences is outstandings! greetings from argentina. Hopefully ill get one G7 in the future!

Thank you! The only synth I could compare this sound to is the Memorymoog. For me it’s a modern Memorymoog in a box. I mean this as a huge compliment, and I hope this company thrives! I like the blue one but the black/red one may be better for work at night.🤔

Had my eye on the E7 too, and i have the P6...... So this helps... I think.

Hey Miles are you still using your 3rd wave more over the ObX8? Really interested in these two synths.

I checked it's specs: just like the Prophet 6, it's slightly too big to fit into a 19" rack - this would've been a selling point for me, but they made the same mistake as Dave Smith there. Also MIDI implementation is THE BEST with everything Dave Smith touched. For example, you change a preset by sending a LSB 0-9 and then a program change 0-99. GS chose some obscure MSB, LSB and PC 0-127 combination, making it impossible to get a preset right without consulting the manual. That's a big minus.

Any thoughts on the best distortion pedals to complement the E7? Have you tried the Electron Analogue Heat processors? They are a bit pricey, though.

Awsome synths! Have you tried the Polybrute? any thoughts?

E7 sounded so great all the way through, then the prophet took it when used in a musical context - classic for a reason I suppose!

I really can't decide between the E7 and the Prophet, they're both clearly amazing in their own right and there really isn't a clear winner for me. The thing that is making me lean towards the E7 is the price, the additional voice, and that it seems to be a bit more versatile (more LFO's), but the Prophet's filter sounds a bit better than the E7's to my ears but that could probably be compensated for in mixing. If you had to choose one as your main subtractive poly synth, which one would you choose?

Sounds more akin to Oberheim than Sequential. In any case, it sounds great. They really need a distributor.

I'd love to hear the E7 against the UDO Super 6.

That G7 seems like a cool synth, but I suppose that between the Rev 2, P6 and Pro 800 I've got it mostly covered :) Still nice to see that there's such a wealth of synths to choose from these days.

I think this was a missed opportunity. Effects are meh, but rather, what I miss the most is modulation matrix. It does sound nice when dialing bread and butter analog patches tho. Missing q compensation.

The E7 sounds fantastic - but wouldn‘t the Trigon-6 be a more adequate competitor? Anyway, I‘ll never let my P6 go.

Any FM capabilities?

e7 very fat sound , but i steel preferer so beautifully phazy , brassy and crispy sound of prophet 6 sound . Miles did you tried a Take 5 ?

7 voices? How strange. Why not 8? Anyway, this E7 sounds really really nice! Almost, dare I say it, Oberheimy in a sort of way? The filter is obviously a Moog one though. Thanks for sharing this interesting comparison. BTW, where did you get the GS Music E7 from?

13:39 Why can’t this be love?

I might have bought the e7 if I had found it before the Take 5. Ah well..

The P6 desktop is $700 more which is almost half again the E7, but in the long run for most is that enough to pick one over the other? The extra LFOs, extra voice, and above all multi-timbrality I think would win it for me were I looking right now. Things lie two 3 voice layered patches mapped to one side of a keybed with 1 voice mapped to the other is a BIG capability IMHO. Both have MPE which is also nice. However, Sequential does have the "vintage" (various per voice offsets) knob which is all kinds of special.

you really should play a Prophet 5/10

I was REALLY interested in the e7, but it doesn't respond to PolyAT over MIDI, and the developer has no plans of implementing it. Oh well...

This should be.49 or 61 keybed version.

Wow, unexpected but desirable comparison.

Please volume match, the human ear automatically prefers louder. Not saying the E7 is bad...just not equal comparison for characteristics

The only difference I could hear is the volume on the Prophet is clearly lower 😂

The GS e7 sounds warmer and thicker

Def think the E7 is fatter, more inspiring sounding standalone. Prophet tho sounds it has the room for other instruments to be involved.

Ok you have made the classic mistake of not matching the levels correctly. (On purpose perhaps!) The Prophet 6 is 2 to 3 db lower all the time compared to the GS so you need to fix this. In your video the GS is louder so people will think its better. Also I have a fiend who plays a lot live in London and he is a Prophet 6 user. He says he has tried everything and the Prophet 6 is more powerful live than anything else. That says it all.

Sounds great, but 1600 for a 7 voice?? Lol…. Behringer is selling the pro-800 for 399 and it has 8voices??

Sequential imposing their idea is better (resonant filter sweep on P6) is a big reason I now look elsewhere. I just tried a Vermona Perfourmer controlled by a Rev-2 and pitch bend behaved in a stepped way too. This doesn’t happen when controlling with the Virus. I am sick of Sequential giving reasons.

Ok were here, thats seems like cheap entertainment and fuss. I am very excited how the g7 ever can be something like prophet. G7 is very different and it has nothing to do with the prophet at all. Very excited what this means.

LOL this guy is a joke. All synths are " THE BEST"

Yesterday I was looking for buying the E7 that was on sale for $1489 on perfect circuit, but they got sold, and I ended getting the Oberheim Teo 5 ❤, since my matrix 6 is broken 👎🏼

i dont like it at all , prophet 6 is better in all senses