Re: [AH] Next Synth Purchase Quest

From Brian Willoughby
Sent Mon, Feb 12th 2018, 00:58

Are you referring to the vintage 1979-1980 Prophet 5, Rev 2, based on =
the SSM chip set? Those are something like 4k for 5 voices. Only 1,117 =
of these were made before production changed to the Rev 3, of which =
about 5,900 were made.

No, I guess it's not your fault that Dave Smith decided to give the new =
synth a somewhat confusing name. The $2K "Prophet Rev 2" with 16 voices =
is a long way from the "Prophet 5, Rev 2" with 5 voices and completely =
different circuits.

Anyway, the vintage 1979 synths are not very reliable, and it would =
probably be quite difficult to be limited to 5 voices these days.

Brian


On Feb 11, 2018, at 3:22 PM, annika morgan <xxxxxx.x.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> =
wrote:
> Anyone out there with thoughts on the sequential prophet Rev2? 2k for =
16 voices seems like a good deal to me...