I'm considering buying a Prophet X

[Delp1953]

I'm considering buying a Prophet X, and I love long, ambient/atmospheric pads. I've read that there's no release loop for the samples, so they can cut off on sounds with long releases. How often does that come up for you all? Are most of the samples long enough that they don't require release loops? Thanks!

[Lady Gaia]

Any sample that has a loop should continue to play the during the decay stage.  The Prophet X doesn't support a notion of a distinct release loop that's different than the sustain loop, but the single defined loop will serve both purposes.  Where a sample doesn't have any loop defined at all, as with some of the piano samples, they will generally already have a full natural decay to silence as part of each sample.

[SirReal]

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[manualcontroller]

I'm considering buying a Prophet X, and I love long, ambient/atmospheric pads. I've read that there's no release loop for the samples, so they can cut off on sounds with long releases. How often does that come up for you all? Are most of the samples long enough that they don't require release loops? Thanks!

I am the proud owner of Prophet X and composed an entire ambient/atmospheric live set with it using samples. It's amazing for this type of thing.

I've never run into any issue with cutting off a sample due to its release. As long as them samples are set to loop and the release (on the amp section) is set to long, those babies will play into infinity!

HOWEVER, there are a few parameter changes that WILL cut off the sample abruptly.

• If you change either of the sample oscillators—even one of those that isn't being sustained.
• If you change the effect type there is often a lil' blip of silence that happens and you probably wouldn't want that in the middle of an ambient set. But it does pick right up from where it left off after a quick second.

It's kind of annoying, but I've learned to deal with it!

[didacticoverworld]

What happens if I convert the original one-shot sample to looped?

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