Hello there! Newbie here at the DSI/Sequential forum.
I've been "in the box" only for years but now I've got a Prophet 12 on it's way and will be able to play with it within a couple of days, and super excited to finally get familiar with DSI/Sequential instruments up close and personal! I've only briefly played with one in a store but done a lot of research so I'm pretty confident I'm gonna be happy.
Theres just 1 thing that I have a hard time letting go about the P12, and thats the fact that it almost has DX7 style FM (phase modulation). I'm a total "FM"/phase modulation junkie so when I heard about the FM update I was almost mindblown, like, wow this is just gonna be my dream synth. Then after some more reading, I found out that it was another variety of FM. It felt like dropping to the ground 1 millimeter from the goal.... sooo close, yet so far.. Personally for me it would just have been so perfect. But, anyhow, after digging up more user demos it seems like the FM still can get quite a few interesting tones and similar to the DX in character too so it's going to be really fun to try. I've also read that the code space in the P12 is almost maxed out already. Still, I'd just like to express how awesome it would be to get true DX7 style FM in there as a final glorious update.
I'd be interested to see how other P12 users feel about that feature request as well. I'd happily replace the linear FM with phase modulation as an optional update if that was possible too. All that being said, I've already accepted that I wont be using the P12 to do any of my DX7 style sounds, and that's ok, I'll probably get an upgraded DX7 for that purpose eventually or just keep working with FM8. (the workflow seems a bit bothersome on the DX7 unless controlling from computer program, so the sound has to make up for that to be worth the hassle)