Pics of the DSI booth at NAMM. The highlight of course was the new Prophet 12. If you watched some of the previous videos on the Prophet 12, you should have noticed that the messaging has been that the Prophet 12 is essentially the best of the Prophet 08 and the best of the Poly Evolver keyboard (see :52 on in this video). One thing to consider is that it does not share any of the oscillators of either the Prophet 08 or Poly Evolver keyboard. The Prophet 08 has analog oscillators with sawtooth, triangle, saw/triangle mix, and pulse waves (with pulse-width modulation), and hard sync. The Poly Evolver has two analog oscillators and two digital with the original Sequential circuits Prophet VS waveforms. The Prophet 12, however, has new digital (software) oscillators which include wavetable oscillators. It's not clear how the wavetable oscillators are implemented. In PPG and Waldorf based wavetable synthesis each wavetable is essentially an oscillator with 64 waveforms that you can interpolate or step through. You can pick different wavetables each with 64 waveforms. On the Prophet 12 I was told that there are three wavetables that you can morph between. What wasn't clear was how the interpolation between the waveforms works. It does sound great.
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