Comparing An Edited Program To Its Original State; Creating A Program From Scratch - Sequential prophet 5 User Manual

Comparing an Edited Program to its Original State

When editing a program, it's often useful to compare its edited state to
its original state to evaluate your edits. Alternatively, before saving a
program to a new location you may want to check the program in the
target location before you overwrite it.
To compare an edited program to a saved version:
1. Edit a program.
2. Press the
3. Press the
compare
4. Play the keyboard to hear the saved version of the sound.
5. To disable the compare function and return to the edited sound, turn off
the
global
6. If you want to save the edited sound, the
ing and ready to save, so enter a location with the
buttons. The sound is saved.
7. Alternatively, if you want to cancel saving and continue editing, press
the
record

Creating a Program from Scratch

An existing program can be very useful as a jumping off point for new
sounds. But it's also useful (and educational) to create a new sound from
scratch. The Prophet-5 makes this easy by providing a "Basic Preset"
that you can quickly recall at any time. This preset is very simple, with a
single oscillator as its basis.
To recall the Basic Preset:
1. Hold down the
2. Press the
8 Setting Up the Prophet-5
button. It starts flashing.
record
button. Both LEDs on the button light up, indicating
global
mode.
button. Programs can't be written while in compare mode.
button. It stops flashing and saving is canceled.
button.
record
button.
preset
button is still flash-
record
program selector
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