Digital does analog! The Prophecy was among one of the first synthesizers to lead a revolution started in the mid-nineties by synthesizer makers to satisfy a growing segment of the market that was lusting after old-school vintage equipment in the pursuit of making electronica-style music, by providing a state-of-the-art retro synthesizer that could sound like a classic analog.

The Prophecy Solo Synthesizer was unveiled in 1995, and was a purely monophonic solo/lead synthesizer. It employed DSP synthesis first developed for the Korg OASYS synthesizer, with algorithms for producing realistic analog timbres, VPM (Variable Phase Modulation) tones similar to FM synthesis, and physically modeled brass, reed, and plucked string instruments. At your finger tips were tons of real-time control over traditional analog editing parameters like filter cutoff and resonance, envelopes and the arpeggiator. It had a pitch wheel, a mod wheel, an expressive dual action ribbon wheel, six effects processors and more!

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.

smoinync

May 5, 2012 @ 9:33 am

By the way, It's just my hypothesis, I didn't mean to offend anyone who is using this machine, I was just complaining the look not the sound.

smoinync

May 5, 2012 @ 9:32 am

Replay Dan ; What I meant was the matter of product design that failed. I don't deny to its professional quality in sound. It sounds great &did amaze me. In ther term of design it looks like a midi keyboard, millanium silvered plastic, layered with buttons, knobs, keys & bender. IMO korg was lack of production design in 1997-1998 for example, korg 707, z1 maybe other company too, due to the trend of industrail design in that certain time. if u can think of others please name it.

toy lover

April 22, 2012 @ 5:09 am

good for how works synth studing without computer :) study love it first and
maybe u can make your own sound though 0-127 control of midi do u have faith that
calculation? so V.A 's era now over and we do programs and this old one is really good to know what the people of that age think synth. very good for study. :)

Dan

April 4, 2012 @ 7:47 pm

@Smoinync How does it fail in appearance ?? its an awesome synth capable of many sounds ,sure its phatt as i still have mine, it just blows some some current synths on the market out of the water . It great for growling tb 303s and other phatt moog basses if you play around with the sounds ..... :)

synthasylum

March 4, 2012 @ 4:02 pm

Very capable synth though I've not used mine as much as I might because it's so complex - there's so much you can do that you end up getting bogged-down in programming and end up turning to a simpler synth instead for faster results. You can create some stunningly complex musical phrases with nothing more than the LFOs, so the inability of the synth to sync its LFOs to your sequencer is a real disappointment - such an obvious thing for Korg to overlook!

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