Congratulations Alex. I feel like you're speaking from my own mind. I have wanted a Prophet 5 since I was a kid. Like yourself, I didn't want to buy a 30 or 40 year old electronic device with all kinds of issues and near impossible to integrate into my DAW for film scoring. Like you the REV 4 was the answer and I got mine in October. I love playing it, It's the greatest looking synth of all time and the mere joy it brings me to play it and use it is beyond measure. I am also a huge Genesis fan and love playing their music on the Prophet. I was able to use it on a film score I just finished (many glide chords) and another project and it's simply joyous. In my mind a Prophet 10 is that glorious behemoth Tony Banks used in the 80's and was the prophet 5 I really wanted. I am going to get that 5 voice card because it seems too good to pass up on. Alex I wish you so much Joy with your new Prophet.
I love my Prophet 5 much like everyone else here. I upgraded it to 10 voices a while back by adding the voice card offered from Sequential. It was well worth it and I recommend it. Congratulations on you finally getting what you wanted. To me the P5 represents a very professional piece of musical equipment from an era of very creative musicians. People actually played mostly with their fingers and wrote great music back then. Synths were still relatively new at the time and only professional could afford them. They were an investment to be implemented. Your Prophet is particularly good looking. All of them have a certain look, I would describe as seriously sophisticated with an "I'm not here to play games" appeal. When people (whether musicians or not) see mine for the first time, you can see the gears turning. Usually accompanied by silence or a "holy shit" comment and then more silence. There is just something about them. It was stated that Dave was so inspired by the Minimoog that he modeled the Prophet after it. The big knobs and red glowing LED interface looks like something from a 1970s military radar system. Anyway congratulations again. They were played by literally almost every professional act back then. Tony Banks being one of the coolest people to own one. Have fun with yours.
of all the recent 'remakes' - ie deckards dream , the behringer ones etc etc - this one is probably the best of all of them and prob will hold its price the best
@@alpao74 a lot of these remakes you feel dissapointed after a bit - i know with my behringer ones i do - the prophet 5 is decent and sounds really good - it does what it says on the tin - really classic
Consider the 5 voice card in the future when you can spring for it. I keep my P10 in 5 voice mode like your 5 because I like the voice stealing character, but PolyUnison mode is magical but you need that card to enter that realm. Congratulations! (I thought Id like the SSM (SSI) filter better, but I prefer the CEM like you)
I think you could get pretty much all these sounds on p6, infact I'm pretty sure I could.. but it takes much longer.. that is kinda the big difference.. IMHO. The parameters are just really big on p6 and it is hard to dial in, it takes time.
I totally get what you mean about instruments speaking to you. This one should excite me, and it does but im far more interested in the prophet 6. I have the ob6 and it's incredible. I just feel like with this instrument they went a little too original. I love the essence of old school analog but with some modern and convenient features. I actually think the the p6 sounds a little better than both the rev 2 and p5/10 and speaking of going too bare bones, I think the mono output with no stereo spread is a big miss for this synth and one of the main reasons why I prefer the p6. You can always go mono with a stereo output so just put a stereo output in my opinion. I usually do reverbs and delays in my studio but an onboard chorus for this would also help it. Especially those fortunate enough to have the 10 voices, being able to split the voices dual mono and detuned would be amazing.
Thanks for your input Bo 😊 The OB6!!!! I want that too!! I have no money now😭😭 Yes you're right, I think they made the P5 for the real purists... To be honest I would have loved the effects on board and even a sub osc would have been nice. But that's the thing: I don't mean to say that the P5 is better in any way, the P6 (and the OB6 😭😭😂) are fantastic synths, I just make decisions like these solely based on a feeling in my gut. And for some reason that day, the P6 didn't give that to me. At the end is all about the music, so whatever inspires one, is the right instrument. Thank you for joining in 🙏
I had a P6 before the vintage knob patch came out and wasn't moved by it. Effectively traded it for an Ob6 and it was immediate love. But I imagine a lot of what you love about the P6 is what I love about the Ob6 and Super 6 - excels at a particular 'vibe/soundset' that hits your favorite musical tastebuds, familiar workflow, cool things it can do the only guys can't, road/gig ready, etc. I got a P10 and, to me, the sound quality blows the P6, Super 6, and Ob6 away. The model D, S6, and Ob6 still have a place in my room because they each do their specific vibe so well, but in terms of raw pure tone the P5/10 is the best raw sounding synth I've ever played next to the Jupiter 8 (which admittedly I only got to play once at a synth museum). I played the CS80 at that museum and honestly was underwhelmed - a bit like how Alex describes in this video. It had been built up to be this legendary thing, and instead it was this clunky thing that sounded like a p10 with the vintage knob overdone and the modwheel forced out of tune - perhaps it needed servicing. The P5/10 doesn't cover any new ground, is nowhere near as flexible or capable without the fx or arp/sequencer etc., but for everytime you want 'that sound' the p5/10 is the real mccoy. I do wish they'd given it the arp/sequencer like the P6 and a HP, but whatever.
@@FakeGlasses Thank you Sam :) I am happy you feel the same way. As I've said many times, the last thing I want here is to create divisions: all these instruments are absolutely amazing, but of course we are all different, so what makes me fly doesn't necessarily make Bo fly, and that is perfectly ok :) I know I am a strange kind of individual, and for instance when I got the Rev2 instead of the P6 it wasn't for all the extra features and modulation possibilities that the Rev 2 offered compared to the P6, it was simply because for some reason I had more fun on the Rev 2 than on the P6. That's it! The P5 though I bought it without trying it, because I just wanted one to keep forever :) Happy music making guys!! May these machines bring your music to the heaven level you want.
The Prophet 5 was my first poly in 1979. Fast forward to 2022 and I own a P6, OB6, P08, Six Trak and the new P10 rev4 (sold the original P5 Rev3 to buy a Kronos for live work). I’ll take a P5/10 any day over all the others because it’s so familiar and I can get pretty much anything I need out of it quickly. One of the greatest analogs ever.
I’m on the fence. It definitely is the coolest looking keyboard. I’m not buying any Keyboard with less than sixty keys. The six is only 4 octaves. Plus the wood looks killer. I am not surprised you went for the 5.
@@alpao74 Una domanda, visto la distorsione che sento, anche quando abbassi il master volume ad un certo punto, è perché resti ancora alto o l'audio è registrato tramite un microfono e non in direct in?
@@analogicalab l'audio è registrato direct in nella mia sound card Apogee Duet. Guardando la forma d'onda in Logic non mi sembrava che andasse in distorsione (a parte il pezzo quando lo dico nel video, dove avevo dimenticato di tenere sott'occhio il volume). Pensi che potrebbe essere proprio la sua voce a sembrare distorto? A me non sembrava distorgesse ma potrei sbagliare 😊
@@alpao74 Io non possiedo personalmente questo synth quindi non saprei dirti. Non so nemmeno se dipende dal tipo di collegamento (cavo) utilizzato. Mi aspettavo semplicemente un suono più fat, che in realtà sento, ma non nel suo pieno, ma non avendo termini di paragone non saprei. E' come se avesse un suono ciccione ma dall'audio di questo video si perde qualcosa...
Bo Miller (below) got it about right. This synth went too original. No stereo outputs is an automatic deal breaker for me and no - you can't emulate true stereo with double tracking or mono to stereo effects.. Great looking synth, but when the nostalgia wears off .......
The nostalgia never wears off. I've had my Prophet 10 for nearly a year an a half and I use it hours a day. Mono is where it's at. Your voice isn't stereo, nor is your guitar, nor bass guitar, nor mini moog, etc. I have a synth that is architected around the idea of stereo - the UDO Super 6, and I leave it in mono mode.
