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The Sequential Prophet VS was a masterpiece in design and sound in 1986. 4 digital oscillators that you could mix between in realtime via a handy joystick forever changed what a synthesizer could sound like, all running through analog filters downstream. It wasn't really a wavetable capable synth, but it felt like it and sounded like it. It was digital, with an analog heart. Unfortunately, it was released during the heyday of the Yamaha DX7, and that won the publics heart. It was Sequential's final synthesizer, before the company went into bankruptcy. Dave Smith would eventually go to work for Korg, where he would design the Wavestation, a fully digital synth that was a next-gen version of the VS.
Whether you know it or not, you've heard its sound on early NIN Pretty Hate Machine era and even rock bands entered the synth domain with its sounds.
Enter VICTORY: the ultimate evolution of Vector Synthesis.
VICTORY starts with the entire catalogue of Prophet-VS sounds from the archives and lets you play them as they are, then edit them to your hearts delight. First, we imported the raw sysex, and made sure the engine interpreted values correctly (99 vs 127 IYKYK) then we modelled everything the circuitry needed including the CEM3379 and CEM3389 voices, the filter response, original 12-bit ROM waveforms, and the entire rest of the circuit, including opamps and part tolerances. This nailed the sound.
Then, we improved it with features not in the original:
Drawable oscillator waveshapes with natural editing, smoothing and randomizations
Improved exponential envelope shapes for snappier sounds on decay/release"Acoustic" envelopes migrated from our ENVE and DECAY projects, which articulates the way real sounds are-- not lines or math
Multiple classic analog filter models. The CEM3389 filter was great, but other designs were perhaps better at smoothing the crispy digital 12-bit waveforms. Try them all!
Wave sequencing where each oscillator steps through up to 8 waves on every note. Step 1 is its own WAVE, and you set sail from there.
A joystick that stays where you move it! On the original, every keystroke started the joystick envelope over. This allows you to override that. Finally!
Our fun to use Snapshot sequencer that allows you to gently change parameters or snap a whole sound to a step and play it back with motion. We also included Gate mode to play along and even an Arpeggiator.
A "patch morph" which allows you to put entire sounds on 4 quadrant vectors and joystick between them. Like joysticking between four Prophet VS's
EZ button to quickly make billions of new sounds.
Every single ROM bank we could find publicly available. 5200 sounds altogether! If that's not enough, find and import your own Sysex
100 new handmade patches by our in-house patch guru MANMADEMADMAN
Wherever your cold synth heart is in 1986 or somewhere in the future, you'll find something in the VICTORY to claim as your own as you vector in your sound.
VICTORY is yours!
Chord progression/arp made with our MAESTRO product"
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