Proper Underrated - Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 - 

By the way people looking at value of synths, i suggest looking at completed listings on eBay to gauge a proper value, instead of the extortionate amount people are trying to charge on reverb and eBay buy it nows :). Just have a look around and see how much beef this synth gets! i mean yeahhh it does sort of suck without the GliGli mod so thank fudge for that! Songs i played in this vid!t :- Human Procrastination :- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M47dXmZUnBc.html (Intro of this vid is the outro of that song) Modern Gas :- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-irfXSw55DUo.html DayDreamer :- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1MlFDDqYYZI.html

HAHA! "I'm not a keyboard player, I'm a guitarist who likes nursery rhymes" absolutely killed me man!

Well, Behringer's doing it with the Gligli gentleman.

"I don't see the point in versatile and complicated synthesizers" Said a guy standing in front of a modular synthesizer which he built himself.

Sounds great. It’s a cool synth.

I enjoy your videos so much, I really like that you go in depth with technical details, that is the cherry on top!

One second in and I'm already in love with that sound

Behringer has a clone of the GliGli mod prophet 600 in their desktop format called the Pro-800. It’s not available yet. But they put out a demo video. Once it’s available I plan on getting one. If it’s as good their other clones; it makes no sense to go vintage given the prices of vintage and the Behringer clones.

You commenting that the Prophet 600 is so underrated rates this as just about the best video you've ever released. Of all the synths I've owned over the years, the one I regret selling the most was my Prophet 600.

You’re such a legend in the way you talk AND in the way you make music :) « A dog climaxing on your leg », and let alone the walrus 😂🤣😂

Absolutely one of my favorite synths and the first midi synth!!

Another lovely feature of this synth is the chord memory using the unison switch, great video!

The 600 with a Gligli is a proper beast. Unique, but firmly a member of one of the best analog synth families ever to grace the Earth.

Love my 600, the gligli has given this synth a whole new life. Thanks for sharing your appreciation for this lovely synth! Glad you got your issues sorted out. My number display has some issues (which i switched out and didn't help) but otherwise works great considering it's age.

Sounds brilliant!

Thanks mate, now I know what synth I'll be looking forward to get next

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and great sounds

So glad I became a patreon member so I can get these sounds.

Thanks for this great video. I have exactly the same problem with mine as far as the multiplexers and am in the process of replacing them. What I learned after owning mine for 40 years (!) is that the prophet 600 doesn’t like to sit and not be used. If one pot dies the whole synth dies because that pot sends random signals to the multiplexers. So key thing is to use the thing and keep the pots and switches clean and in use.

what an amazing sounding synth!! i love your content and videos, stumbled upon your channel after i was recommended the Megadrive Synth video, after that not only did i want to get into synths but i also want a Megadrive synth really bad haha.

Best synth review ever 👏🏾👏🏾

The force is strong with this prophet!

"You can make it sound like a walrus farting in the distance..." 🤣

Magnificent Synth.

Crazy BUT GENIUS. great vid dude

One key touch - and a half track is ready! It's a wonderful synthesizer :)

Who needs black keys? You only ever play in C/Am anyway :P EDIT: Yes! finally! I've been trying to work out the chords for modern gas for ages now. Thanks (Am Em F, F C G)

I own a Juno 106, and the Prophet 600, with the mod, is definitely superior in my opinion.

I was reading through my service manual for my Sequential 6 track…knobs for track volume and speed change overall tuning …pitch bend is squirrelly so I went ahead and order a few components …the main one ADC Multiplexer And some other odds and ends …I’m glad I stumbled onto your video on this because this may be what is happening on mine …once warmed up, if I don’t mess w track volume and speed knobs or pitch and modulation wheels, it will stay in tune

Can’t wait for my Pro-800!!

Love it!

Ostia! Raunchy! (Positively) Daje Sam!

I had one of these with GliGli, sold it couple years ago...great synth. It is also great in making nature sounds like water drops, bird noises, horse and other animal noises. Also good for helicopter sounds. The bass is not too punchy like the June-60, but its great for leads and little squeaky sounds.

that dutch red sticker on the back of the synth. does make it nice haha

Sounds epic. Nice. 😉

For a laugh Turn on subtitles. At 9:20 it will correctly subtitle the prophet as: wow wow wow wow wow wow..

This is pretty much why I got into synths 4:05

cool stuff

Nice!

Best dual VCO 6-voice ever.

Six trak and 600 are gems for sure.

Love the simple chords from Modern Gas :)

sick chord progressions dude

Shirt, Hoodie and leather jacket combo.. Just classic.

that arpeggio at 11:00 is nice. i'm hearing a whole song around it.

The only synth I own.

Amazing!!!!SynTH!!!!

Noir Et Blanc Vie will tell you the same, being a previous owner...

Brilliant, mate! Keep doing what you're doing! I'm nowhere near your level of music. My music that I make is garbage. Not even music, but I have fun anyway.

I had one of those, it was labelled the 'raunchy' prophet back in the day ;)

I'd totally buy a guitar based on the number of knobs.

I kinda think no sequential circuits prophet synth has ever been underrated. But that one is a beauty. edit: oh those are some beautiful circuit boards, really a work of art.

It sounds like my Six Trak! I love my glide feature also. I do wish the Six Trak had more knobs to make edits faster but it's great for the money I paid for it many decades ago.

I agree with you about the versatility argument, not just in terms of synths, but of appliances in general. As someone with a flaky attention span, I find devices that have tonnes of functions to be majorly distracting. Give me a synth or machine that does one thing and does it really well and I can have fun and focus.

Oh dude! You're part of the "Beat up P-600" club too!

Versatility vs usability... it's a huge and important topic which seems to get overlooked a lot. So thanks for bringing it up! :) (it's also one of the main things I debate with myself about when looking at instruments I want... because insane levels of versatility are appealing, but then, does all that power even matter if it's hidden below the surface?)

Behrigner are supposed to come out with an 8 voice desktop module version of this synth for under 600$ in January 2021. It will sell like crazy if it sound anything like a p-600.

I did the GliGli mod on my P600 too... I also added wacky new kinds of LFOs to the Firmware.

8:39 That filter has a really nice character to it. Also, you're a better keyboard player than 90% of synth users... most people just run a sequence on loop and never touch the keys at all.

Not underrated, but highly rated by some who can appreciate it... and let’s keep it like this (so that prices on used market don’t skyrocket)

First three cords gave me a huge oldschool The Prodigy vibe for some reason

One thing cool about the memory bank on the Juno 60 for example is shifting through the patches with a trigger via its patch shift jack : )

I would say that Polivoks is one of the best synths ever made!

Welcome to the world of MIDI.

Ultimate keyboard

Aww. You did a bit on an old Sequential Circuits for my birthday! I have a dead SC 6-Track. I desperately wish I could have gotten it fixed. :-(

Has entire room of synths and giant 1000 osc synth wall: I'm a guitarist. ;)

dig it, reminds me of my mk1 08

"If you twist a knob but it accidentally starts sounds like dog climaxing on your leg, it's not exactly a usable polyphonic synthesizer." That sounds like a challenge to me...

I remember when these used to go for $600. Oh to go back to that era and buy all the synths, haha.

How are you able to repair the Printed Cir circuit Board and not want to replace the bushings and keys.

Silvikrin Surfer - Maximum Hold 🤩

hahaha best quote of the day 👍😂

Multiplexers were the problem on mine too!

A walrus farting in the distance 😂😄😂👍🏼💪🏼 Best sound description I have ever heard.

I adore mine. It's not only a powerful source of warm saw pads, but it actually has deeper bass than the Pro 3 (it really does). The envelopes really suck without the Gligli mod though, I've just been too afraid to install it - some people have had theirs malfunction afterwards.

I could see the potential possibility of other mods to this bad boy. Plenty more front panel controls come forth .

Off topic but what are those 2 silver rack mount units with the 2 black knobs and vu meters? Always see them and I’m surprised I don’t know what they are/what they do

Yep best sound I ever got out of my old arp was when it it the back of the skip ! Sampled it reversed it recorded on to a 2 track then played it back and re sampled as I threw it into a busy shop - used that sound and had 2 hit records back in the 80s yeah them wert days I’ll tell theee

If I've got a polysix should I get a prophet 600? I mean does it do more that the polysix?

Woah

Dude this thing sounds massive! If the Behringer one sounds anything like this I’m gonna buy it!

oh you made me rue the day I sold it!

amazing gear. 6:26 similar to daft punk contact.

It’s great. It’s what Six Finger Satellite used...

Funny! I had the same problem on my P600, plus one of the Multiplexers had become loose in its socket and had intermittend contact. Of course found that out after having already replaced a bunch of 4016 chips and OpAmps 🙄Good thing is that one can still get all these chips. Only if the DAC dies you are in real trouble!

I wants it!

Chris Franke from Tangerine Dream - interviewed in December 1984: "I had an early Prophet 600 that went wrong not suddenly but very slowly. After a week the programs started to change slightly, then they became completely different sounds, and finally, after a couple of months, they were just noise. It turned out that the program in the EPROM running the machine had a bug in it."

imagen Leo P and LMNC jamming

Nice... you've got voice board serial #2714 and I've got #3033. I had always wondered if that nail polishy gunk on the trimmers was the factory colour. Mine has it only applied to selected trimmers as well.

Как говорится чистое ЖЕЛЕЗО👍

I love❤🎶

What a nice poly ! I would easily exchange my Juno 106 for it, if it would be possible to get a fully restored one.

Prophet 5 reissue: Yeah I think I'm next after this.

4:05 Motorboat moment

Prophet 5 and 6 Nacho cano tone 🤟🤟

i love my P-600, even without the GLIGLI, mine bugs out then restarts as soon as i plug something into the footswitch jack, any ideas what i can do to fix that?

is it possible to 3Dprint new keys when they are broken?

So Behringer posted a YT demo yesterday of a Pro-600 clone (with GliGli mods) they expect to release in late winter or early spring next year) for somewhere in the mid-to-high 3 digits.

2:56 I do love my Prophet minus 5 (w/Gligli)