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Korg • Prophecy

Digital does analog! This hybrid digital synth is one of the coolest new monophonic lead synths!!! Tons of real-time control over traditional analog editing parameters like cutoff, resonance, envelopes and arpeggios. And it's all at your finger tips. It has a pitch wheel, a mod wheel, and a dual action ribbon wheel, 6 effects processors and more! Plus its retro analog sounds are really good too! It is used by The Orb, Jan Hammer, Download, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mirwais, Front Line Assembly, Kobe, Depeche Mode, Orbital, Theatre, Überzone, BT, Union Jack, The Prodigy, the Crystal Method, Eat Static, Apollo 440, Radio Head, Luke Vibert, Stabbing Westward, 808 State, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Joe Zawinul, the Pet Shop Boys and lots more! A great and modern techno/electronic music machine.

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Jonah

Posted 17 days ago

I was offered to buy this for 400 bucks several years ago - not knowing its potential, I didn't buy it because I thought it was incredibly ugly.

neal

Posted 60 days ago

i remember liam howlett making his comments, he complained about it being monophonic and he could'nt play any cords, but then went on to use some factory presets on his albums, but come on the prodigy just got famous with there watered down breakbeats and cartoon rave and then big beat heavy metal, the prophecy is no toy, its a difficult instrument to master really, i control mine now with a er-1, thats 4 osc in total and lots more control, a classic design.

Sanhedralite

Posted 92 days ago

Difficult to program, but nice beefy sound..ugly though IMHO

Nick_Toznost

Posted 99 days ago

I agree that the Prophecy is a pain to program. I've had one for 8 years and it was mostly redundant in my setup. Odd to think that the 5 parameter knobs were meant to be similar to using analogue kit. However I discovered an old PC prophecy editor called ProGenie, it works on xp/vista too. It makes for simpler editing on a prophecy... managed to get some interesting sounds eventually, remember it does have (rare) comb filters. Though my Blofeld does it better. Anyway give Progenie a try if your prophecy is doing your head in...

http://www.brothersoft.com/progenie -154669.html

Shawn

Posted 112 days ago

Plenty of useful sounds but these synths do take a good while to learn. Nice for those who have limited space in their home studios. Very portable too, not as unwieldy as a large synth. I think these would have been better if they had the ability to do stereo as well, but I guess the mono feature was regarded as a selling point. I have found mine quite useful for soundtrack and ambient music.

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