Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 Improvisation XXXXIX

Published on May 30, 2015 Sacred Synthesis

"This piece is a good argument in favor of synthesizers having twelve to sixteen voices. The envelope and filter settings are such that, when the eight voices are exceeded, a rather violent "pop" results as the notes are re-assigned. I don't think it ruins the music if kept to a minimum, but it profoundly affects the keyboard technique needed, so that the player has to constantly be aware of the patch's constraints

Of course, I could have poly chained the keyboard and module, and that would have given me such a sixteen-voice instrument, but I much prefer to run them in parallel - merely MIDI-ed together and panned to opposite sides, so as to give a fuller richer stereo sound in eight voices.

The music is modeled on a Prelude and Fugue format, but the so-called "Fugue" in this case is only an Imitation - a piece based on a theme that continuously but freely alters it in various ways. Whereas, a traditional fugue follows a stricter form. Fugue is positively my favorite type of music.

Instrumentation:
DSI Prophet '08 Keyboard
DSI Prophet '08 Module
DSI Evolver Desktop
Hammond XPK 200L Pedalboard

Reverb from Lexicon MX300

Recorded live directly to CD

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