Hi All! If such a thread exists already, please point me in the right direction and I can delete this. Since I can't seem to find one, here we are. Any ideas you have, programming tricks, discoveries, happy accidents, whatever, share them. I'd love to see what kind of stuff you guys are coming up with!
I'll start with a few things I've found in my first few days of Prophet ownership. Nothing crazy or groundbreaking, but useful to me nonetheless, figured they might be worth sharing.
- Set up a Mod slot to route Note Number to the pitch of one oscillator, say Osc 2, with a small value, like 1. Set Osc Mix so you can hear both oscillators, then bring down the fine tuning of Osc 2 to -20 or so. Set this way, you'll have a small difference in pitch between the oscillators that varies dependent upon where you're playing on the keyboard. Use the fine tune control to control how in or out of tune the second oscillator is as you move up or down the keybed.
- Reducing the Env Amout knob in Amp settings seems to smooth out the sound a bit. My instinct is to keep this knob all the way up, or at a value of 127 when combined with the Velocity knob, but keeping the max volume lower seems to sound nice to me. Maybe I am just insane.
- If a Mod Amount of 1 is more than what you're looking for, you can use another slot for an envelope, the mod wheel, or velocity to control that initial Mod slot Amount, giving finer control of the range between 0 and 1.