Sequential Prophet 6

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It's the perfect balance between portability and performance yeah.

(One of the things I really do love about the P6 is the integrated 49-key keybed.) Fired up the Peak, and started plinking keys and going through the presets. Within seconds I was *completely* in love with it.

I make mostly deep house, dub techno, and ambient. I love analog subtractive synthesis and and was looking for something that could do rich melty pads, chewy chord stabs (the high pass filter was a big selling point to me for these), deep solid basses, and plucky arps. The Prophet-6, of course, is a top notch synthesizer. Everything about it feels solid and well made.

so then i swithered about it for a year… and the chip shortage etc made me finally pull the trigger. especially since the sale price for music gear doesn’t go down for older stuff in the same way as, for instance, computer equipment. hell, they still sell the microKORG for pretty much what i paid for mine. i compared the prophet 6, the ob-6, the hydrasynth, matriarch, and others in this price range.

I arranged an exchange for a b-stock Prophet 6, and I am now a proud owner of my first Sequential/DSI synthesizer. I have to say that I'm a little disappointed in the OSCs and filter relationships, but it does sound and feel very, very good. It's a nice bread & butter synthesizer that is built to last. IMO, it doesn't have a certain special vibe that, for instance, my Matriarch has about it, but it sounds WAY nicer than any of my other poly options.

I've had a Prophet 6 for a while, it really did not click with me at first, but now it's my most-used hardware synth. A few things help. First, get used to the narrow sweet spots on the filter--it's fine if you're barely every turning resonance past 25% or opening cutoff all the way up. Pushing out of those ranges can lead to really cool experimental sounds, once you've got the hang of it, but for most classic sounds you'll want to keep fairly constrained.

But it fills a different void in my sonic palette than I expected it to: it’s more modern-sounding. The Prophet 6 sounds really delightful to me.