Mostly a curiosity question about the internal architecture...
I noticed in my newly acquired Prophet 10 desktop that since you can layer or split two programs, each with their own LFO settings, both run simultaneously. Intrinsically, this tells me that the Prophet 10 literally has two LFOs (versus the one LFO the Prophet 5 has). This surprised me as the feature to add layers and splits came after the initial hardware was released. This makes me think one of two things:
1. Sequential always planned to release the layer and split features, and so had two hardware LFOs initially, but just didn't have it ready at launch.
2. The Prophet 10 is much more literally two Prophet 5s, and has two parallel sound generation paths. This has interesting implications as it may mean when in 10-voice mode (not layered or split), both LFOs are running and which one you get depends on the voice. Which means they could be slightly different -- because analog. Given it is an LFO, I doubt this would be discernible in practice -- but still interesting.
Anyone know?