Or perhaps someone knows something and we are going to see a revamp of something like a new Emulator by Rossum. Prophet 5/10 reissue, Oberheim OBX8, And even Groove Synthesis’s 3rd Wave handling the PPG/Prophet VS territory, maybe there’s something down the pipeline.
Even a dedicated Novation sampling keyboard would be excellent. As sad as I am about the Prophet X becoming abandonware (come on....no MPE update?) and cast off, it many ways it might lead to something else. Before the Prophet X, dedicated Polyphonic sample synths weren’t really a popular thing...now we have Akai doing keyboard instruments, 1010 doing dedicated Polyphonic samplers like the Tangerine nano box, Sonicware doing the Lo Fi 12, Torso doing the S4, Roland adding polyphony to their SP404 MKII, I’m actually shocked Elektron haven’t done a Polyphonic sampler yet.
Long story short, I’m hopeful. Sequential always seemed to be ahead of the curve. The Tempest sort of led the way for things like the Analog Rytm, Korg Drumlogue And others, the Prophet 12 was criticized for its use of digital oscillators and now we are seeing people praising FPGA and digital oscillators in things like the Summit, the Prophet 6 and OB6 brought back VCOs into Polyphonic synths, then Prologue and others came in. Even the REV2’s 8 voice/16 voice concept was adopted by thins like the Prologue and Moog One.
So we shall see what the future holds.
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