The Prophet-6 is Dave Smith’s vision of the quintessential analog synthesizer. As a descendent of the legendary Prophet-5, it combines classic tone with a modern design, delivering rich, warm, and expressive sounds in a balanced, contemporary instrument. Trusted by top musicians and studios for nearly a decade, the Prophet-6 has proven itself as today’s analog standard.
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All sounds created with Prophet-6, including drums
With its six powerful voices and intuitive controls, the Prophet-6 offers unparalleled tone and playability, a culmination of 50 years of engineering expertise. Immerse yourself in the harmony, balance and depth of sounds that have captivated top musicians and studio professionals around the world.
The Prophet-6, boasts two discrete VCOs (and a sub-oscillator) per voice, delivering a warm, punchy sound with a versatile tonal palette. Its continuously variable waveshapes, from triangle through sawtooth to pulse, represent the next evolutionary step of our classic oscillator design, unlocking a wider range of expressive timbres.
The Prophet-6’s dual filter design features two discrete filters per voice: a four-pole, resonant low-pass inspired by the original Prophet-5, and a two-pole, resonant high-pass. This balanced approach offers true timbral control from both ends of the spectrum. From full, rich bass to clean and clear poly pads, Prophet-6 has you covered.
The Prophet-6 strikes the perfect balance for studio and stage. Its versatility makes it the top choice for contemporary productions, effortlessly complementing your instrumentation and vocal style. World class producers rely on Prophet-6 to deliver the right sound at the right time… a sound that boosts your tracks without overpowering them.
Prophet-6 is a perfect fusion of discrete analog design and advanced digital control. This capable instrument offers deep synthesis functionality along with vintage warmth, enabling you to quickly create complex sounds using its flexible modulations and detailed effects. Whether crafting powerful bass lines or ethereal pads, the Prophet-6 delivers balanced tone for any musical style.
With the same intuitive controls and no menu diving, the Prophet-6 desktop module offers the identical analog signal path, digital effects, and classic sound as the keyboard version. Plus, with poly chain, you can pair any two Prophet-6s for twelve-voice polyphony.
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The Prophet-6’s stereo analog Distortion effect adds warmth, harmonic complexity, and a powerful presence to your sounds.
The Prophet-6 features great feeling Pitch and Mod wheels, with speedy adjustments for tailoring your bend range to taste or even assigning intense timbral modulations using the LFO set to audio rate.
With Poly Mod you can dive right into FM effects, audio-rate filter modulation, pulse width modulation and more by easily routing different sources to destinations like oscillator and filter frequencies, creating brand new sounds bursting with character.
The Prophet-6 adds dimension and versatility to its classic tone by enabling you to apply up to two digital effects to any program. Available effects include Delay, BBD, Chorus, Flanger, Phase Shifter and Reverb.
Bring your sound to life with a wide range of modulation waveforms. And unlike most LFO’s, you can operate the Prophet-6’s at audio rate, producing sounds with a distinctly modern edge.
In addition to the common Glide Time mode, Prophet-6 offers Glide Rate, which changes the note transition duration based on the distance between the starting and ending notes. This is useful for emulating some vintage synths but can also be used for experimental music with uncertain transition times.
Unison mode transforms the Prophet-6 into a powerful monophonic synthesizer, allowing you to stack up to six voices on one note for an incredibly dense sound. Tame the beast by controlling the number of voices, note priority, and by adjusting the oscillator detune amount.
Prophet-6’s clock serves as the central tempo control, ensuring that all your rhythmic synthesis and playback elements remain perfectly in sync. And with the addition of Tap Tempo, keeping time with live musicians is easier than ever.
Blend different waveforms from each oscillator AND use the variable waveshapes with modulations for infinite tonal combinations.
The Prophet-6 is packed with 500 user and 500 factory programs, crafted by some of the world’s top sound designers.
Global settings control system-wide parameters and functions, giving you full command of customizing your synth’s behavior.
The Slop knob introduces subtle variations between voices, capturing the organic warmth and character of vintage analog synthesizers.
Prophet-6 boasts a premium-quality 4-octave, 49-key Fatar keyboard, offering exceptional playability and expression.
The Arpeggiator enables the creation of interactive musical phrases, while the Sequencer allows you to capture spontaneous musical ideas without ever leaving your instrument. Both tools provide unparalleled freedom to explore rhythms and melodies, inspiring greater levels of musical expression.
Unique in Sequential’s instrument lineup, the Prophet-6 features a dual filter design that offers a four-pole, resonant low-pass filter and a two-pole, resonant high-pass filter, allowing for timbral control from both ends of the spectrum.
The aftertouch feel of the Prophet-6 has been meticulously refined over many years, incorporating feedback from professional musicians to create a highly responsive and finely tuned instrument.
The Prophet-6 offers both standard MIDI in/out/thru connections and USB MIDI. You can enable individually and choose which types of MIDI messages to send, for seamless control of your studio.
The Prophet-6’s Input jacks open a world of expression by letting you connect foot pedals to control sustain, volume, filter sweeps, and even start and stop sequence playback.
Prophet-6 features left and right stereo outputs, along with a headphone output, allowing you and your audience to enjoy a wider, more immersive soundstage. Use the pan spread feature to fan all six voices out individually and experience the detailed response of the onboard stereo reverb.
The Prophet-6’s stereo analog Distortion effect adds warmth, harmonic complexity, and a powerful presence to your sounds.
Blend different waveforms from each oscillator AND use the variable waveshapes with modulations for infinite tonal combinations.
In addition to the common Glide Time mode, Prophet-6 offers Glide Rate, which changes the note transition duration based on the distance between the starting and ending notes. This is useful for emulating some vintage synths but can also be used for experimental music with uncertain transition times.
Unison mode transforms the Prophet-6 into a powerful monophonic synthesizer, allowing you to stack up to six voices on one note for an incredibly dense sound. Tame the beast by controlling the number of voices, note priority, and by adjusting the oscillator detune amount.
The Prophet-6 adds dimension and versatility to its classic tone by enabling you to apply up to two digital effects to any program. Available effects include Delay, BBD, Chorus, Flanger, Phase Shifter and Reverb.
Bring your sound to life with a wide range of modulation waveforms. And unlike most LFO’s, you can operate the Prophet-6’s at audio rate, producing sounds with a distinctly modern edge.
The Slop knob introduces subtle variations between voices, capturing the organic warmth and character of vintage analog synthesizers.
The Prophet-6 is packed with 500 user and 500 factory programs, crafted by some of the world’s top sound designers.
Global settings control system-wide parameters and functions, giving you full command of customizing your synth’s behavior.
With Poly Mod you can dive right into FM effects, audio-rate filter modulation, pulse width modulation and more by easily routing different sources to destinations like oscillator and filter frequencies, creating brand new sounds bursting with character.
Unique in Sequential’s instrument lineup, the Prophet-6 features a dual filter design that offers a four-pole, resonant low-pass filter and a two-pole, resonant high-pass filter, allowing for timbral control from both ends of the spectrum.
Prophet-6’s clock serves as the central tempo control, ensuring that all your rhythmic synthesis and playback elements remain perfectly in sync. And with the addition of Tap Tempo, keeping time with live musicians is easier than ever.
The aftertouch feel of the Prophet-6 has been meticulously refined over many years, incorporating feedback from professional musicians to create a highly responsive and finely tuned instrument.
The Arpeggiator enables the creation of interactive musical phrases, while the Sequencer allows you to capture spontaneous musical ideas without ever leaving your instrument. Both tools provide unparalleled freedom to explore rhythms and melodies, inspiring greater levels of musical expression.
The Prophet-6 offers both standard MIDI in/out/thru connections and USB MIDI. You can enable individually and choose which types of MIDI messages to send, for seamless control of your studio.
The Prophet-6’s Input jacks open a world of expression by letting you connect foot pedals to control sustain, volume, filter sweeps, and even start and stop sequence playback.
Prophet-6 features left and right stereo outputs, along with a headphone output, allowing you and your audience to enjoy a wider, more immersive soundstage. Use the pan spread feature to fan all six voices out individually and experience the detailed response of the onboard stereo reverb.
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