Dave Smith Instruments Sequential PROPHET X User Manual page 35

To audition the oscillators:
1. Press the
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to the
Soft Key 1 (
3. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. (The level of Oscil-
lator 2 is set to zero and Instruments 1 and 2 do not have an instrument
selected.)
4. In the
oscillators
various waveshapes. Sawtooth is selected by default. Notice that it is
possible to select no waveshape.
5. As you toggle through the waveforms, turn the
listen to how the timbre of the waveform changes. When
selected as the waveshape, this knob controls the thickness (detuning)
of the Super Saw wave.
6. Turn up the level of Oscillator 2 in the Mixer and experiment with
setting each oscillator to a different waveshape. Experiment with the
fine tune
oscillators in relation to each other creates movement and thickness in
their combined sound.
7. Try rotating the filter's
affect the sound of the oscillators.
8. Use the
Try tuning one oscillator to a interval such as a third, a fifth, or a sixth.
9. With both oscillators on, press the sync 2 > 1 button, then rotate the
knob on Oscillator 1 while you hold a note. This is the classic
pitch
hard sync sound. You can route an envelope to Oscillator 1 pitch using
the modulation matrix to create this effect each time you play a note.
You'll learn more about the mod matrix in "Modulation" on page 55.
Prophet X User's Guide
button.
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section, press the
knob on the oscillators and notice how slightly detuning the
cutoff
knob to change the pitch (in semitones) of the oscillators.
pitch
basic program
button to step through the
shape
shape mod
and knobs to see how they
resonance
command, then press
knob and
super saw
Oscillators
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