Prophet 5 software reviews

J3PO is demoing what he thinks are great-sounding combinations, and anyone interested in one of these synths is going to be interested in his demo. What does that show you?

How good the Strymon effects are, not how good the synth sounds. A Prophet 5 was cool 40 years ago, not so much now with all the more interesting new synths.

If you want to live in the past, be my guest. I wish i could like in the past or the future but then it will become the present very quickly. It takes me back to my first Prophet, which I was blessed to run through a Roland tape echo. I mean it is not much more under the hood then any of those and now the 5 voice version goes for the same as Prophet X? I think one of the points of a remake is to also make it reasonably accessible. The only eyebrow-raiser comes at the output stage; the main audio output — faithful to the original — is mono only.

For example, you can blend LFO and noise generators as modulation sources and apply them to a sound. Potential modulation targets include the frequency and pulse width of Oscillators A and B and filter cutoff frequency. The result can range from subtle vibrato to sonic mayhem, and things get even more interesting when you introduce Poly phonic Mod ulation. It does this by turning Oscillator B or the Filter Envelope as the modulation source. If keyboard tracking is then set to Half or Full, each of these LFO modulation sources will feature its own, different frequency.

Of course, you can use the power of Oscillator B in all kinds of ways and, again, as the dial to choose between this and Filter Envelope as the modulation source is a rotary dial, all kinds of interplay can be created. Stack and Split bring bi-timbral operation, allowing you to either layer two sound programs, or split the keyboard between them instead.

Industry: Industrial Automation. Time used: Less than 12 months. The workflow manager has been useful for follow up. The integration into outlook makes it very easy to use.

The customization aspect also allowed us to make it relevant to our niche industry. Sometimes it crashes when I am inputting information. When this is an issue support is usually quick to help. Thanks for taking the time to post a review! I'm thrilled to read that by using Prophet your company has become more productive! Scale-ability and the capability to mold to a lot of different companies business models. The vendor is good about fixing issues quickly but sometimes difficult to distinguish between an actual error and a company specific business process.

There are a ton of purchasable add-on's from third parties that can and do make this a wonderful software if you have the money. Slow to implement vendor driven Idea's Network from user ideas. The product feels extremely slow once you get used to running the system and is glitchy because of the method chosen to release updates and advancements.

Vendor Runs a continuous improvement program with multiple releases a year so as they are designing new features at the same time they are cleaning errors and glitches rather than waiting a long time for advancements and a rock solid release.

This could also be considered good and bad if you need an advancement, you don't have to wait! Since this software can mold to a large variety of business models it can make training difficult and long due to the complexities of the software's advanced features.

Industry: Staffing and Recruiting. Overall very positive experience. The support has been great. We now have an easy to use CRM that lives in our email client that is always used.

The CRM is an integrated part of Outlook. Gordon Reid. My experience was typical: having acquired a Rev 2 in , I fell in love with it and had a field day creating new programs, but the bloody thing kept going wrong. Given that embarrassing showstopper, it was clearly an act of folly to risk flying this temperamental keyboard halfway around the world.

Amazingly, it was. Against all the odds, after being lugged in and out of vans, chucked into an airplane hold, flown at 35, feet, driven 70km from the airport and hauled up six floors into the venue, the Prophet behaved perfectly. After a nervous few moments while it went through its autotune cycle, it emerged refreshed, vibrant, stable and more in tune than I could remember, retained its programs and held its tuning throughout the show and a second gig the next night.

I could hardly believe it. Sadly, as soon as we got back to England it immediately threw a wobbler, and that was pretty much the last hurrah of this unpredictable instrument. If you decide to ignore this advice, better find a good keyboard tech and arrange a bank loan to cover the inevitable repair bills! If you equate being out of tune to being organic, this was undoubtedly true. Consequently, the Rev 4 finds it easier to emulate the various models of Rev 3 than it does the Rev 1 and Rev 2.

However, there is a more meaningful comparison, albeit not one that I am able to test. This legendary keyboard created the template and set the standard for hundreds of imitators, few of which sounded as good.