I'm still of the opinion that the Evolver has the sonic edge, but the Prophet 12 has immensely impressed me. There's just something about having all that power under your fingertips. And I don't hold it against the instrument that the mono signal is unsatisfactory. I'm obviously able to solve that problem in two different ways.
If I actually buy a Prophet 12, I'll do the usual pairing of a Keyboard and a Module. I would much prefer to have twelve voices mirror each other, rather than have the ping pong effect. But you were right, Mr. Kay, in your complimentary comments about the P12, and I was wrong in my criticisms. The fact it, basing one's judgment of a musical instrument on YouTube videos alone is a faulty approach, not because of the audio quality, because YouTube's quality is good enough. Rather, it's a faulty approach because of what people do with the instrument in the videos. I could find hardly a single synthesist who would use the P12 as I would. There are hours and hours of the instrument being used to make very gritty, nasal, metallic sounds that tend to give me a headache or an earache, or both. That is the real problem, and it's the reason I've many times suggested that DSI should take synthesizer demonstrations much more seriously.
Producing these fabulous instruments, but then leaving them to be globally demonstrated by folks who don't seem interested in drawing out the sweet, lush, and exclusively musical side is a bit of a career risk, in my opinion. I realize this view rubs some people the wrong way, but so be it; it's the truth. If the Prophet 12 had been demonstrated in such a way, I certainly would have bought one two or three years ago, and I'm sure this would have been the case with many other musicians as well.
One of the more common comments that I get from listeners to my YouTube channel is: "Unlike a hundred other videos I've listened to, your demonstrations of the Prophet '08 or Poly Evolver Keyboard have brought out the musical side, and for that reason I just ordered one". I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm boasting, but I've gotten this comment many times. DSI should establish a mean by which a variety of musicians demonstrate their new instruments by means of pieces of music. It's the only way of countering the inevitable - that YouTube will be inundated with videos that fail to do DSI synthesizers justice.