Suzanne Ciani will be performing live at the Museum of Music Technology in Harleysville, PA. The concert will actually be livestreamed for free. If you are in the area you can purchase tickets to attend. You can find full details on the event here.
"Suzanne Ciani, a groundbreaking composer and performer who got her start by building Buchla’s instruments in the 1960s and eventually became one of the world's foremost Buchla artists, brings her unique voice and history to this exhibition.
After receiving her master's degree in composition at UC Berkeley, where she collaborated with John Chowning and Max Matthews, Ciani began working with synthesizer designer Don Buchla in the early 1970s. Using a Buchla Analog Modular Synthesizer, she founded her own company, Ciani/Musica, and created iconic sounds for commercials for Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, and General Electric. In 1981 she became the first woman to score a major full-length Hollywood release with Lily Tomlin's The Incredible Shrinking Woman. She went on to release a series of albums blending electronic and acoustic instruments, earning five Grammy nominations. She was the first woman to receive the Moog Innovation Award in 2017, and her life and work were the subject of the documentary A Life in Waves. Today she performs solo quadraphonic Buchla concerts, bringing her work full circle to its experimental electronic roots.
This event offers a rare chance to see Ciani perform and speak in a small intimate venue."
"We run a tiny hardware company in Tokyo and made this short film about why we’re obsessed with noise. We’re thinking about filming a longer documentary about Japan’s small independent instrument makers.
With this video, we want to open a door into the world of Japan’s independent music hardware scene, a world that usually remains outside the attention of a wider audience.
We are Light Reft, a small company founded by a group of enthusiasts in Tokyo. Over the past few years, we have developed and released two instruments of our own - monolit and concrete. You can learn about us on our web-site www.lightreft.jp
But we are far from alone.
In Tokyo and across Japan, there are many small independent companies, workshops, and individual makers creating unusual musical instruments, effects, and electronic devices. Many of them remain virtually unknown outside a small circle of musicians, even though this is where some genuinely interesting things are happening.
This video is only the beginning.
If you would like to see a full-length film about Japan’s independent music hardware scene, meet the people who design and build instruments themselves, visit their workshops, and find out why they do what they do - let us know in the comments.
And please share this video. If we see that people are genuinely interested in this world, we’ll continue and try to show this scene from the inside.
Video & Editing - Evgeny Joy
Sound - Sasha DZA (Light Reft)"
🌑 Slowing Time is a collection of 50 atmospheric presets for Ableton Live Instrument Rack (based on the Meld synth and Ableton effects), designed for producers who enjoy cinematic sound design, evolving textures, and immersive atmospheres. 🧿 The soundset includes: 12 Pads, 12 Strings, 13 Textures, and 13 Drones. The bank combines dark drones, soft pads, abstract textures, and expressive strings, ranging from delicate ambient layers to noisier and more dissonant soundscapes.
🎛 Each patch includes 8 Macros for shaping tone, movement, texture, effects, and spatial depth. The ModWheel controls brightness.
🎬 Suitable for ambient, cinematic, experimental electronic music, IDM, drone music, soundtrack production, and sound design for films, games, trailers, visual media where atmosphere and emotion are important.
❗️ The presets are compatible with Ableton Suite 12 or higher. Please note that they are strictly for the Suite version only. Standard, Lite, and Intro versions do not include the instruments used for the presets.
"We are super excited to introduce 3 new instruments today! Plinky 12 is a family of expressive polyphonic touch synthesizers. The three instruments are built around a shared synth engine. Designed by mmalex, it evokes the unmistakable melancholic sounds of the original Plinky. https://plinky12.com
Each instrument is designed in collaboration with a different synth maker, lending each panel a distinct playability and unique character.
Plinky 12 Chords is a harmonic inspiration machine. It lets you improvise melodies and chords, with expressive control over voicings, progressions, and immediate musical play. Created by Making Sound Machines, Chords is the panel for finding beautiful harmonic movement quickly.
Plinky 12 Toadstep is a 4-track step sequencer built for super funky riffs, experimental self-generative melodies, and good ol' Acid. Created by Toadstool Tech, the designer behind the Ectocore Eurorack module, Toadstep is fun, immediate and easy to jam with!
Plinky 12 Blocks is an open panel built for experimentation, with monome-grid compatibility, Plinky style touch synthesis, and a browser-based coding environment just a click away. While it comes with a fully playable design out of the gate, creator mmalex invites you to build your own adventure with this panel. If you can imagine it, you can make it!
In this video, Enrica and Roland from Making Sound Machines explore the three new Plinky 12 instruments: Blocks, Chords and Toadstep from left to right.
The track builds on a repeating loop created with the built-in sequencer on Plinky 12 Toadstep. The short sequence uses rhythmic step repeats, track step length and animated synth parameters to create an ostinato that keeps sonically evolving over the length of the track.
As the piece continues, Roland plays a progression of harmonies from the rainbow chord palette on Plinky 12 Chords, before launching a sequence that reharmonizes the loop heard from Toadstep. Enrica joins in playing sparkling arpeggios with her fingertips on Plinky 12 Blocks, the surface with the sunset colour-fade print.
As the track progresses, Roland plays a melodic line on Chords, then Enrica takes over with a melody on blocks. The Plinky 12 polyphonic play surface reads both play position and pressure of the touch. It enables bends and glides on the horizontal axis, while allowing for discrete arps in the vertical direction.
They end the piece with a tempo transition showcasing the septuplet feature on the internal sequencer."
"Nymira is a standalone harmony instrument designed around the circle of fifths. Its sonic engine draws from the overtone series, offering detailed timbral control across seven individual partials. Two distinct models explore different synthesis methods; one rooted in additive FM synthesis, the other in classic subtractive design. Together, they provide a new, expressive way to shape rich and complex harmonic textures."
Playlist:
1. Introducing Nymira
2. Nymira, by Terraphones
3. what we don't say... (ambient wooden electronic musical instrument performance)
Cheat Code for Chord Progressions • The Circle of Fifths with Terraphones Nymira
"Terraphones shows me Nymira, a new synthesizer and MIDI controller based on the Circle of Fifths that makes playing chords and advanced harmony feel like cheating."
✶ CHAPTERS ✶
00:00 – Intro
00:32 – Overview
01:22 – Learning Nymira
01:46 – Harmonic Map
02:40 – Combining Chords
03:37 – Open Voicings
03:58 – Terraphones Concept
04:19 – Additive Mode
04:53 – Subtractive Mode
05:33 – Sus Chords
06:16 – Granular Mode
06:56 – Latching Chords
07:14 – Granular Mode Jitter
07:46 – The Circle as a Path
08:27 – Resolving Chords
08:50 – Nymira as a MIDI Controller
10:22 – Relative Movement
11:21 – Free Play
11:42 – Advanced Harmonic Moves
12:47 – The Zones
17:03 – Eureka!
17:35 – Thank you
18:14 – Outro"
"Nymira is a standalone harmony instrument designed around the circle of fifths. Its sonic engine draws from the overtone series, offering detailed timbral control across seven individual partials. Three distinct models explore different synthesis methods; one rooted in additive FM synthesis, another in classic subtractive design, and one based on granular synthesis. Together, they provide a new, expressive way to shape rich and complex harmonic textures.
Nymira is the only instrument in the world that maps the Circle of Fifths to a physical interface. Nymira is designed with Western harmonic theory at the core, allowing you to discover beautiful chord progressions that are much harder to play on other instruments.
Like all Terraphones, Nymira is assembled by hand, and is housed in solid walnut. Underneath Nymira’s keys are Cherry MX Silent Red keyswitches that offer a clean, tactile experience. With the ability to run on four rechargeable AA batteries, Nymira lets you play anywhere. Inside Nymira are two surface transducers that turn the walnut enclosure into a speaker of its own. Playing Nymira in this mode allows you to hear its warm sonic engine played through the walls of its walnut housing. Nymira also excels in the studio. It is equipped with USB MIDI out, and a stereo 1/4" audio output. If you don’t want to use batteries, Nymira can be powered via USB-C with any device that supplies 4-17 volts.
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Nymira is made by Thomas Adam Billings, the sole creator of Terraphones. Every part of Nymira is ethically sourced, assembled by hand, with solid walnut sourced and milled in the United States of America. By purchasing Nymira, you are directly funding the ongoing research and development of a new wave of natural, electroacoustic musical instruments.
– $1200 –
50 units available for pre-order. Expected lead time : 6-10 weeks
Shipping to North America, South America, the UK, the EU, and Australia."
"Join us at Bristronica 2025 as we explore the innovative Circle Guitar with Anthony from Circle Instruments. Discover how this self-strumming, MIDI-enabled guitar opens up new creative possibilities ."
"The player can sequence the wheel's movement with a DAW or MIDI controller such as the Morningstar MC6 Pro and MC8 Pro. All external MIDI-enabled devices and effects can be synced to the wheel's speed to adjust dynamically together."
1. Circle Guitar at Distillery 2 - Episode 2 - Medley
2. An introduction to Circle Guitar
3. Circle Guitar at Distillery 2 - Episode 1 - Theme Tune
4. Circle Guitar - Promo
"RYK Modular are about to release the Time Slice, a quad-channel looper and sampler module that features a comprehensive set of onboard effects."
"Quad-channel Looper and Sampling Laboratory
Want to F**K with the fabric of time ? In four dimensions ?
Now you can, with TIME SLICE the new quad-channel Eurorack audio looper and sampling machine
Four channels of audio I/O with big fat rolling buffers for each channel, plus a dedicated Stereo Mix Output Classic H3000 style Pitch-shifters to f**K with time, sculpt your audio
Overtly generous amount of FX, with dedicated Pitch-shift, Delay, Reverb, Tilt Filter, Wave Fold and more on every track
Keep your dreams, or re-use the dreams of others with Internal and USB storage support for Loading and Saving WAV files, including embedded WAV Markers for multi-sample instruments
More jacks than you can shake a stick at, assignable CV inputs, and Trigger INs and OUT on each track 1-Shot Loop mode for sampler style playback with MIDI support for keyboard control and MIDI CC for modulations
Unique retrospective loop mode for the performance challenged musician, plus traditional style loop mode for the old timers
All sources catered for with Line Level, Euro Level, and HOT EURO ! Ping-pong like a 4-track, Time Slice lets you resample other tracks, and even record the Stereo Mix Output as a new track
Keeps impeccable time, and can play friends with MIDI and clock-sync.
Includes exciting funky red circle display thing at no extra cost, plus a big retro scroll wheel !"
"Introducing Circular – an expressive polyphonic sequencer that transforms simple chords into evolving, cinematic textures. With four fully independent layers and deep modulation control, Circular brings rhythm, movement, and emotion to every note.
Import your own samples, or explore over 100 experimental sound sources, from felted pianos to bowed metals, all designed to move, shift, and unfold in real time."
Berlin, May 15, 2025 – Native Instruments today released Circular, a mesmerizing polyphonic sequencer that transforms a single note or chord progression into breathtaking rhythmic soundscapes. Announced at Superbooth 25 in Berlin last week, Circular can jump from sketch to score in seconds, drawing out rich and emotive cinematic sequences.
Go full circle
Starting with a single note, Circular utilizes four independent layers, each a canvas for modulation. Control pitch, filter, and effects in real-time, creating motion-rich scores with unparalleled speed and depth. Every sound was designed with polyphonic aftertouch in mind, making for an extremely expressive experience on Kontrol keyboards, and other controllers that support poly AT.
Dive into a vast library of over 160 sound sources, ranging from felted pianos and prepared guitars to hybrid synths and bowed metal. Circular's diverse palette encourages exploration, blending soft and harsh textures, acoustic and synthetic elements, and familiar and strange sounds. Add your own samples to transform them into evolving sequences.
"This is a full overview and video manual for the Hi Five system of remote CV controllers for Eurorack synthesizer.
For more info and purchase: https://www.biopoweraudio.com/hifive.
Chapters
00:00 Intro Jams
01:32 Features of the Hi Five
02:49 Patch breakdown with Dig It! and Manual Override controllers
05:34 Duet Jam with Astrid!
HI FIVE works with DIG IT! or MANUAL OVERRIDE as a remote CV controller system that expands the expressive and social range of your Eurorack modular synthesizer. Turn your solo jam into a playtime with kids, a modular synthesis tutorial, or a drum circle with friends by passing the controller around!
HI FIVE sends +12V and receives five analog CV signals over an ethernet cable from a (potentially) infinite variety of CV controllers.
Each CV channel can be attenuverted +/-10V and offset +/-5V before its output.
RJ45 development PCBs are available, and included in every HI FIVE DIY kit. Design your own dream controller!
DIG IT! controls its five CV channels with a joystick, FSR pressure point, a bright arcade-style LED solo button and a LED button and 45mm fader pair. The buttons have on-momentary off and off-momentary on settings.
In this video, DIG IT! is modulating parameters on a Mutable Instruments Plaits module in 2-op FM mode, as well as a generative analog algorithm passing through a quantizer that is producing its melodic line.
MANUAL OVERRIDE controls CV with 60 mm faders and LED button pairs similar to channel E of DIG IT! on all five channels. It's controlling a Mutable Instruments Grids module and several drum sounds.
Standard color schemes for LEDs, buttons and fader caps are Rainbow (red-orange-yellow-green-blue), and Biopower Green. For an extra charge, we will build custom any combination of these colors (and white with black faders).
HI FIVE is 8 hp and 38mm deep.
Peak current:
35mA with MANUAL OVERRIDE
80mA with DIG IT!"
1. Bristronica 24: MyVolts The Silent Alchemist Nears Shipping
We caught up with Caroline who gave us the latest update to the *Silent Alchemist*, a versatile power hub designed for musicians. Featuring five isolated USB-C outputs and a high-wattage sixth output capable of delivering 100 watts, the device can power a Mac with the remaining outputs providing 20 watts each. Its independent circuits ensure noise-free operation, catering to a variety of devices including the Dreadbox module and Sysmo slope generator.
The Silent Alchemist uses innovative step-up power tips to convert USB-C input to the correct voltage for various devices. There's also new feature: an uninterruptible power supply allowing seamless transition between wall and power bank sources. Also introduced were updated cables, such as silver candy cords and floating ring TRS to TS cables, expanding connection flexibility. The Silent Alchemist is expected to be available in December with a competitive pricing strategy.
At Bristronica 2024, we caught up with the creator of the *ML2M*, who introduced us to the latest version. The ML2M is a compact Eurorack module with Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing seamless synchronization with Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, and iOS music apps using Ableton Link without the need for cables. It either connects to an existing network or creates its own, ensuring robust sync even in environments with unreliable Wi-Fi. The module, which retains its 2HP size, now features MIDI integration through TRS jacks. Users can access a web interface to configure each output for different clock divisions and reset triggers, making setup straightforward and flexible.
Alongside the ML2M, there's also the Missing Link Junior. This desktop version offers the same functionality but in a box format, complete with MIDI and CV clock outputs. Both products are now accessible, with a starting price of $250.
At Machina Bristronica 2024, we caught up with Arran from @archaea_modular_synthesis who presented the *Exchange Module*. This programmable patcher, a year in the making, evolved from its early prototype stage to a fully functional module. Arran explained how the Exchange can route synth voices via a beam controller and three exchange modules installed within the skiff, allowing for versatile patching. Operating like a matrix patchbay, it enables users to select inputs and outputs with the push of a button, create presets, and chain multiple modules for synchronized patching.
Communication between the modules occurs over the Eurorack power bus as well as over MIDI via the USB-C connection. The Exchange maintains analog integrity, ensuring there’s no conversion latency. The forthcoming release expected in late November 2024, includes a USB-driven editor for enhanced control capabilities.
"I teamed up with Belgian Eurorack module manufacturer Joranalogue to solve one of the biggest problem I had with my wall of test equipment: I could use it in the studio, but not play it live. It is just too heavy and fragile, being about 50 years. So that part of my music remained unperformed. With our new module Collide 4 I and everyone else can now take the wonderful textures and sonic possibilities of nuclear research equipment on the road.
It is based on a lock-in amplifier, a tool made to sniff out tiny fluctuations of a frequency in vast amount of noise. But Joran took the concept further and added a frequency shifter. It is module with vast possibilities, and I can only give you a small overview and intro in this video. Check out Collide 4 at your trusted modular dealer in person now."
User videos:
Playlist:
1. FANTASTIC FILTH from COLLIDE 4 (Joranalogue & Hainbach) // my first patch + your questions! - DivKid
2. Joranalogue Audio Design X HAINBACH / COLLIDE 4 / first experiments / a lot of 'aha' moments - BRiES
3. Joranalogue Audio Design x Hainbach / COLLIDE 4 / dissonance and drones / JUST SOUND SERIES (1/4)
4. Joranalogue Audio Design x Hainbach / COLLIDE 4 / music and melodies / JUST SOUND SERIES (2/4)
5. Joranalogue Audio Design x Hainbach / COLLIDE 4 / slew, ringmod, cv / JUST SOUND SERIES (3/4)
6. Joranalogue Audio Design x Hainbach / COLLIDE 4 / audio processing / JUST SOUND SERIES (4/4)
The origins of electronic music are found within the early works of a small group of forward-thinking mid-century composers, harnessing electronic test gear to create strange new sounds. Building upon this heritage, today everything comes full circle again through Collide 4.
The first hardware release to be co-developed by acclaimed musician and YouTube sensation Hainbach, Collide 4 builds upon the lock-in amplifier concept, and brings it into the Eurorack world. These atomic age physics research instruments are known for their raw power when used in musical applications. Now, any synthesist can experience this for themselves, at a fraction of the size and weight of a vintage unit, and with full voltage control.
The result is a wholly new kind of analogue synth voice and audio processor, with capabilities far beyond what the avant-garde pioneers could have imagined. Collide 4 is an expression of Hainbach's extensive experience in exploring the deepest musical realms contained within vintage test equipment, and the Joranalogue philosophy of electronic instrument design.
Honouring its innovative dual-phase architecture, this new kind of musical generator and processor has been christened the ‘quadrature spectral computer’. The sound? Quite simply: it's smashing!
Modern, fully analogue Eurorack format re-imagining of the lock-in amplifier concept, expanded to new heights. Pingable variable bandwidth filter with self-oscillation capability. Pre- and post-filter gain stages, for a total of up to 130 dB of amplification! Through-zero sine/cosine quadrature oscillator. Hilbert transform network for frequency shifter use. Dual ring modulators with output lowpass filters. Extensive output section, including magnitude and phase analogue computing outputs. Unique X/Y quadrature topology, ideal for stereo use. Handsome (and useful) signal level/overload LED indicator. CV control over everything, with temperature compensation and excellent volt/octave pitch tracking. 20 HP, 30 mm deep. Over 600 components, yet a fraction of the weight and size of a vintage Model 124A lock-in amplifier unit. Impedance-compensated outputs with dual-colour LEDs. Trim potentiometers accessible from the front panel. Precision-milled 2 mm anodised aluminium front panel with high-resolution, non-erasable graphics. Bullet-proof design: polarised power header and MOSFET protection circuit. Includes 16-to-10-pin Eurorack power ribbon cable. Premium mounting hardware: black screws, black nylon washers and matching hex key. Supplied with fold-out signal flow and front panel diagram. High-quality components and assembly; designed and made in Belgium.
Click the auction link on top when you get there for additional listings.
"Does it have PSU now??? Classic analogue / digital synth from Dave Smith Instruments, from Orbital's studio. This version has the lovely Prophet 5 knobs, and a mix of potentiometers and endless rotary encoders. The panel graphics clearly show which are which: if the lines go full circle it is an encoder, if they are horseshoe-shaped, the control is a pot. Plus if the control is a pot, it has a position marker line.
This seems to be the best solution to the well-documented problems with earlier versions. ***We are sourcing a 15V DC 1300mA pin positive 220V external power supply, which will be included.*** This is in really nice cosmetic condition and will come with Orbital's written provenance. Packing 24GBP"
"Very clean vintage Oberheim OBXa from the early 1980s. This is an 8-voice model that is completely fully functional and loaded with the original factory presets. It was just serviced which included:
-Recapping the power supply + new bridge rectifiers.
-Replaced J wires where necessary.
-Key buss polishing.
-All new bushings + key chassi alignment.
-Calibration.
The cosmetic condition is impressive for its age. It is not dead mint, but certainly one of the cleaner ones I’ve seen over the years. These are considered to be in the circle of the best poly-synths ever made and with good reason. They sound incredible and are endlessly inspiring instruments."
"Brinta marks the second collaboration module between Error Instruments and This Is Not RocketScience - with more to come. The name 'Brinta' comes from a classic Dutch oatmeal breakfast (a nightmare when I was young expecially when it cooled down and it tasted like concrete or plaster). But it obviously refers to granular synthesis. It's been done before in Eurorack but it has its own distinct sound and the 'grain circle' is a functional beauty.
For most of us, just one is more than enough. But I just had to test with two of them."
Circle of sound – spilling the Brinta – follow the white dot – banged grain.
Samples three-and-a-half seconds of audio (one moment) cuts it into thousands of pieces. Little grains of sound. You can mix the sound grains in speed and order. You re-arrangement it.
When the red dot is running around the circle it is recording. Your sample becomes the circle. Blue for high frequency, green for mid and red for low. Colours mix accordingly and when they all come together in white-light, you have white-noise. Once your sample is recorded the white dot can run around the circle, spawning little golden heads playing your sample. The size of the grain is how long your play head exists.
"BRINTA . GRAIN circle GRANULA sampler of errorinstruments / TINRS.
This model will be released in the beginning of September for interest, and make a reservation email
studiopaultas@hotmail.com
Under subject BRINTA reservation
More information www.errorinstruments.com"
"This experimental filter made by TINRS and errorinstruments  will be in pre-sale for interest contac studiopaultas@hotmail.com
And September available www.errorinstruments.com"
"This piece was created for the August 7 edition of Franck Martin's Live From the Studio [below], which includes an interview with Chris along with the premiere of this piece. It was also shown as the opening performance in the Chill Out Room at Knobcon 2021.
This piece was inspired by the actual Edro III shipwreck. Instruments Chris used include The Monster (his studio modular synth), the Vector Synth, Waldorf Iridium, and SoundIron Circle Bells."
Franck Martin - Live From the Studio 2021-08-07 - Chris Meyer/Alias Zone
"The new Prophet-5 is Dave Smith's return to the analog poly synth that changed the world. It embodies all three revisions of the legendary synth — Rev1, Rev2, Rev3 — and now, the Rev4. History never sounded better.
Soundtrack exclusively by Prophet-5. Yes, even the drums."
Both models will be available in October. The Prophet-5 has a US MAP of $3,499. The Prophet-10 has a US MAP of $4,299. Note there is an additional video demo by INHALT further below.
"Sequential Reintroduces the Prophet®-5, the Synth that Revolutionized an Industry
San Francisco, CA—Oct 1, 2020—After months of clandestine development, Sequential today announced the reintroduction of its most famous and beloved instrument: the Prophet-5. Timed to coincide with founder Dave Smith’s 70th year, the instrument revisits a landmark era in American analog synthesizer design and marks an authentic and authoritative return to roots for the legendary pioneer of electronic instruments.
“It’s not often that you get to revisit your past, retrieve some of its magic, and give it new life,” said Dave Smith. “The Prophet-5 was one of the most exciting instruments to appear in an equally exciting time for music and technology. It’s gratifying to rediscover that its sound and aesthetics are just as appealing now as they were then.”
Faithful to the original, the new Prophet-5 features five voices with two multi-waveform analog oscillators, resonant analog low-pass filters and amplifiers, and a filter and amplifier envelope per voice. Modulation is provided by a multi-waveshape LFO and Poly Mod, a ground-breaking modulation scheme for its time that allowed the filter envelope and oscillator B to be routed to a variety of destinations including filter cutoff frequency, oscillator A frequency, and oscillator A pulse width.
The new Prophet-5 features original, genuine Curtis VCOs and filters as used in the Prophet-5 Rev3, as well as the Dave Rossum-designed SSI 2140 filter, the modern counterpart of the original SSM 2040 Rossum designed in the Prophet-5 Rev1 and Rev2. “We made the new Prophet-5 the best of all Prophets by embodying all three revisions of the original. We did this by adding a Rev switch to the front panel, so you can choose your preferred filter.”
Smith continued, “We also researched what made the original P-5 sound the way it did — organic and alive — and found that a lot of that desirable character was due to fluctuations and differences in the response times and frequencies of the individual oscillators, filters, and envelopes from voice to voice. So we also added a Vintage knob that loosens all of them up like they were in the old days. You can dial in progressively more vintage character as you go from a very stable “4,” as in Prophet-5 Rev4, all the way to “1,” as in Prophet-5 Rev1, which was the most temperamental of all Prophet-5s. We’ve even included the original factory sound set for the full vintage experience.”
Other modern enhancements include velocity sensitivity and aftertouch to increase expressiveness, as well as MIDI and USB connectivity. Control voltage and gate ins/outs are also present for connecting modular synths and other gear. The new Prophet-5 is housed in a collector-worthy, premium-quality, steel and hand-oiled sustainable black walnut heartwood body, with a full, five-octave, semi-weighted Fatar keybed.
Sequential is simultaneously offering the Prophet-10, a ten-voice version of the synthesizer with the same sound engine and collector-worthy design. “I originally designed the first Prophet in both five-voice and ten-voice versions. But the five-voice model was the one that achieved mass production. We thought it would be fun and fitting to reintroduce the ten-voice as well, to make the circle complete.” Sequential Circuits’ later product, the dual-manual, bi-timbral Prophet-10, was a different instrument in both concept and execution.
Both models will be available in October. The Prophet-5 has a US MAP of $3,499. The Prophet-10 has a US MAP of $4,299."
"There are few synthesizers that spark deep emotions and reverence. The Prophet 5 is one of them. Its history is marked by both the counter and the dominant cultural works; wether listening to the independent outings of New Musik and Skinny Puppy, the art of Japan and Sakamoto, the disco of Cowely, the soundtracks of Carpenter or the pop of McCartney and Madonna, it collectively becomes clear that the Prophet 5 is the great enabler of the modern musical expression. If the Model D is the left hand the Prophet 5 is the right. And rightly so, as its genius and genuineness transitioned the 5 from "tool of novelty" firmly into the place of an exuberant enabler of the creative expression. From decade to decade, its design and purity allowed it to slot into a music production unweathered and unbiased by whatever style is in vogue. Yet, it's always fashionable and it always sits right where it's supposed to. Put simply, it's a workhorse that inspires. Whatever the revision. And now, that story, that lineage continues with the Rev 4.
It's with absolute honor, gratitude, and exhilaration that I accepted the offer to work on the factory patches for Sequential's latest chapter in the story of the Prophet 5. Sound designing alongside the superb voicing team has been a wonderful collaboration with a company I consider family and my way to give thanks for the career that the Prophet 5 has helped me build. Unlike other projects I've done in the past, part of my testing of the Rev 4 included putting it through an actual studio music production. I'm currently in the middle of producing two LP's (the artists Some Ember and Patriarchy) and the Rev 4 got used heavily on both. The main question I sought to answer: "does it handle the same as a vintage unit". What became abundantly clear: the Rev 4 isn't like a Prophet 5, isn't inspired by a Prophet 5, ins't referencing a Prophet 5; it is a Prophet 5. Through and through in every sense of the very defining characteristics of the 5. It's a Prophet 5. Period. And in many regards it's better. Why?
Rapid fire MIDI, Fatar keybed, both genuine SSM (SSI) filters and VCAs, genuine Curtis filters and oscillators, a perfectly tuned LFO and envelopes, the ability to actually save LFO amount settings, velocity, aftertouch, the same voice allocation as the original ... and zero repairs needed with no sacrifice to the soul of what makes the 5 the 5. It looks the same with minor additions that can be completely ignored if you choose. You can play it like the original and you can expect it to do exactly what the original does. Or you can take advantage of all of the modern facilities. I also made a set of patches that were the same sounds on both a vintage 5 and the Rev 4 and quickly cycling playing the same passage on the 2 instruments, for all in the room, it was impossible to tell what's what and who's who.
The amount of care, attention to detail, and workmanship that has gone into the Rev 4 is remarkable and I am honored to have been a part of the team putting it through the paces. Sequential is a special company. It's marked by integrity, friendship, care, and carries on a tradition of producing musical instruments from that platform. The Rev 4 is a Prophet 5 and ONLY Sequential can make that.
Please note, the Rev 4 in the video is a prototype unit and I recorded this with a beta firmware. As such, while the synth was largely done there are some changes both to the panel and to the OS that are in the final shipping version (obviously). The Prophet 5 was recorded straight into Pro Tools HD and no post processing or fx were added. What you're hearing is the raw Rev 4."
"This instrument is beautiful, although it has some minor fine scratches on the instrument.
A photo-copy of user manual written in Japanese language will be provided.
An AC100V to DC 10V adapter with center negative will be provided.
Technical information:
Dimensions: 72 × 22 × 9 cm.
Weight: Instrument Wt : Approx. 2.716 kg, Case: 2.390 kg, Total : 5.106 kg.
Package Weight : 7 to 8 Kg.
Accessories: Pick, AC100V to DC10V power adaptor and a semi-hard case.
