Sequential Circuits • ProphetVS

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Here's a very cool keyboard from Sequential. Notice the joystick for controlling your sound modelling. 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 ProphetVS 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.
We just released the Mackie Control C4 templates for Sequential Circuits, Inc. Prophet VS (144 parameters on 14 Pages).
The VS is so sonically capable, but so hard to program with its small 2 lines LCD and 1 data entry slider... that makes it a headache to deal with.
Now with this template you will have access to all VS parameters in a user-friendly and workflow-efficient way on the large LCDs the C4 offers and can unleash the synth potential or even discover new sonic possibilities with realtime recording of VS parameters in your DAW....
Check the VS template screenshots and the VS sound samples we did using the C4!
http://mapage.noos.fr/michael.rosner/ C4DESIGN/index.html
Enjoy the music...
Michael