Here's a very cool keyboard from Sequential. Notice the joystick for controlling your sound modeling. The Prophet VS uses Vector Synthesis as its revolutionary new means of sound creation. It uses a total of four oscillators per voice with 127 waveforms (32 user) and dynamic waveform crossfading via the joystick. This was Sequential's first digital synth, and it was also their final synth unfortunately. But after Sequential was gone, Vector Synthesis technology went into the popular Korg Wavestation and Yamaha's SY-22 and TG-33.

Pictured above is the common rackmount version of the PVS. The Prophet VS is still a very sought after instrument because it has an incredible range of sounds! Its only problem is that there's practically nobody left that can fix it if something went wrong. It is used by Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Apollo 440, Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Erasure and filmmaker/composer John Carpenter.

Keith Hendricks

May 1, 2013 @ 6:45 pm

Please share the name of the expert who can fix Prophet VS synths. thanks

MM

March 20, 2013 @ 9:56 pm

I know an expert who can fix these. . .

Tom Yeshuah

December 20, 2012 @ 2:38 pm

What is the "Voices" patch number? Is it part of the factory set ones?

Dejan Djordjevic

December 14, 2012 @ 10:45 am

I still play my Prophet VS on my new works and since 1987 my Prophet VS had to replace my former Prophet 5 synth.I have the updated system-chip version r1.2,and here's a secret,probability snd.programming:press+hold "ENTER" + ProgramSelect "2". I played lots of Prophet VS on many chapters of my THE THREE DIMENSIONAL FOURTH DIMENSION. Regards,Sir Dejan Djordjevic,Basement Flat Rear,189 Sandgate Rd,Folkestone,Kent,CT202HJ,UK. www.myspace.com/sirdejandjordjevic

dmg

November 16, 2012 @ 4:19 pm

Geddy Lee of Rush used a couple of VS's from around 1986-89. There are VS sounds all over their "Hold Your Fire" album. The VS "Voices" patch, probably used most commonly of all the factory presets, is also on The Outfield's "No Surrender," one version of Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings," Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again," etc. That sound was popping up all over the place in the late '80s.

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