Vintage Synth Explorer

Tried it out when it first came out.
Nice. Not too digital sounding. Sound a little far from a P5.
Should have brough one. I had the money. I still cannot find an anologue I can afford that sounds as big. I do not like shopping online.

I have owned my for over 10 years and got it when it first came out. I love it. For years I hated the interface (buttons and data dialing) for programming sounds. Especially since I also owned a basstation synth ver and orig Nord Lead. Then I got into the crazy filters that only the Prophecy has and for Drum and Bass this thing is maddness! Not that hard to program once you get a routine down. The sound of it is flawless in my head. I love my nord lead but the prophecy blows it away for drum and bass (and everything else) if you want to use a real hardware synth hands on, thats the only way for me. Even my Juno106 is getting dust now. Took me long enough to get into it with the other synths having knobs and sliders everywhere. I love mine, keeper. 2008 October, Happy Halloween. sam and his fatcat

I hate that the envelopes restart from zero regardless of the keyboard mode, so if there is a long attack and long release, each new key pressed causes the volume to drop instantly. It's extremely non-analogue behaviour. The nonlinear waveshapers are not antialiased and produce a lot of harsh aliasing tones.

Other than that, it's a great experimental machine.

A very deep machine, if you can get around the horrible interface. Great for performance, nearly impossible for making your own sounds unless you're a pro synth programmer or have a lot of time on your hands.
Flaws as they are, I will still never ever sell mine because it sounds so good!

I Love this machine but just hate its interface,its perfect for those solo lead lines and has some very useable patches,and great for gigging,infact I have now added a second one to my rig,but it can become tedious to program,being monophonic it teaches you to think and play differently,especially when your used to large polyphony workstations,never got on with the 5 Knobs,they are pathetic for real time tweaking.,infact I modded mine with some smaller rubber knobs that had some proper knurled grips on....