After a year and a half, I'm back in Berlin and so pleased to be spending time with my beloved Prophet 6. The Vintage upgrade is fab. It does the very thing I always wished Slop would do. It's subtle, but it brings the "beautiful blur" to the 6.
It's funny how much love I have for the P6. So many of us, when it was first announced, hoped it was actually a P5 crammed into a smaller box, and it took time to accept (a) it wasn't and (b) that it was wonderful in its own right. It's still my favourite synth to play. Meaning, I sit and my hands wander around just as they do a real piano. The word "modern" is often used to describe the sound and that's how it sits in my ears, certainly. This is an almost blasphemous thing to say, but I like that on the rev 4 P5, there are options to adjust the fuzz when the synth is in Unison mode. I tend often now to tweak my P5 bass patches towards the cleaner, P6 side of the spectrum. Also on the "I can't believe you're about to say this!" end, I' certain I won't miss my P5 while I'm away from it the same way I've been missing the 6. Maybe this is because I've known the Prophet 5 for decades and I can count on it to make "that" sound the moment I'm back with it. The Prophet 6, though, all the more with the Vintage function added, feels like it's constantly challenging me to understand it differently and more deeply. The P5 - to me - never goes wrong. It sounds great every time, and fits the track at hand. I find that the P6 takes more delicate effort sometimes, to get it sonically where I want it to land.
I know how fortunate I am to have both synths. I'll very likely end up shipping the P6 back to California, where it will live side by side with the Prophet 5. The other synths I'm shipping home include my Pro One and Evolver (represent!).