I love my Prophet 12.
I think it's a beautiful instrument.
I like everything about it.
I like the way it plays, I LOVE the UI, the soft buttons and the soft knobs above and below the display, the keypad and the big display make it much quicker to navigate and to use than my Rev2 (which is also great).
It's brill to play too. I mean the slider strips and the live mode - just fab!
Great mod matrix too - just to be clear I LOVE this synth!
How I use it is probably more like a standard subtractive synth tbh, but then you don't find many other synths out there that have 4 oscillators plus a sub oscillator, 4 LFOs, Low pass & high pass filter, 4 analogue delays, 4 envelopes, analogue distortion, FM, AM, 12 notes of polyphony and B-timbrality with individual outputs do you?
It's a very satisfying synth to sink your programming teeth into and a lovely synth to play especially live.
The digital waveforms are a 'bonus' rather than being fundamentally important like the classic wave shapes are to me and so I use them only occasionally tbh, but I like having them just the same and just the other day I tried creating a patch from scratch using only the extra 'digital' waveforms which was fun.
So I like having them as an option, but yes in my case I tend just to use it as a totally superbly laid out 4 oscillator subtractive synth.
I've become emotionally attached to my Prophet 12 and if that's not a sign of a great synth I don't know what is.