Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 String Quartet Patch

Published on Jul 5, 2015 Sacred Synthesis

"This improvisation resembles an earlier one played on the Poly Evolver Keyboard. In this Prophet '08 version, rather than four oscillators of sawtooth, I added one oscillator of square waveform. Amazingly, the one oscillator completely changes the tonal color, making it more of a flute chorus type sound.

This string quartet patch is tame, modest, even conservative. It demonstrates that the synthesizer need not sound bizarre, with constant tweaking of parameters or wild modulations. It's the area of sound design that most interests me - that largely unexplored domain of purely musical tones that resemble traditional instruments, and yet that can be produced only by the synthesizer.

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

Reverb from Lexicon MX300

Performed live and recorded directly to CD

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