Creating A Hard-Sync Lead - Dave Smith Instruments Sequential PROPHET X User Manual

Using the LFO to Sweep the Filter
You can further enhance the string pad by using the LFO to sweep the
filter.
To sweep the filter:
1. In the
lfo
triangle wave.
2. With the LFO parameters shown in the main display, press Soft Button
3 to select the
You can quickly assign the mod destination for LFO 2 by holding down the
LFO 2 selector button and turning the Filter Cutoff knob. This will auto-assign filter
cutoff as the modulation destination for LFO 2.
3. With the LFO parameters shown in the main display, press Soft Button
1 to select the
4. Set the LFO
5. Play some chords. The LFO sweeps the filter.
6. For fun, experiment with changing LFO 2's
amount

Creating a Hard-Sync Lead

Here's another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is "Let's Go" by the Cars (performed on a Prophet-5). In this example
you'll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, pitch-modulate one of them
with an auxiliary envelope, then add effects.
To create a hard-sync lead:
1. Press the
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to
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button and press the
3. In the mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the
oscillators
92 Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
section, select
lfo
menu tab, then use Soft Knob 1 to select
lfo dest
menu.
lfo shape
to triangle,
shape
parameters.
button.
global
). As a shortcut, hold down the front-panel
hold
section, set both oscillators to sawtooth.
2 and make sure its
to 30, and
frequency
basic program
butt on.
is set to the
shape
to 50.
amount
,
shape frequency
and press Soft Button 1
transpose down
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