Chapter 3: Creating Sounds; Synth Bass; Short Version - Sequential prophet 5 User Manual

Chapter 3: Creating Sounds

The Prophet-5 can produce a broad spectrum of sounds. Though the
factory programs give you some idea of its scope, if you just play its presets,
you're not using the Prophet-5 to its full potential. The real fun is in creating
sounds of your own.
This chapter provides some short sound programming tutorials. Though
there isn't enough space here to cover how to use every Prophet-5 function,
the examples will help you get familiar with some basic concepts.

Synth Bass

A synth bass is one of the easiest and most useful sounds you can make
on a synth. Many great synth bass sounds consist of a single oscillator, a
bit of filter resonance, the proper envelope, and that's it. So start with the
Basic Program and go from there.

Short Version

To create a classic synth bass:
1. Recall the basic preset by holding down
2. Set filter
3. Set filter
4. In the
envelopes
5. In the
envelopes
6. In the
envelopes
7. Play some low notes on the keyboard. Instant synth bass!
8. Experiment with the Filter Envelope's
9. Experiment with the Filter's
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to 3.
cutoff
to 3.
resonance
section, set the Filter Envelope's
section, set the Filter Envelope's
section, set the Filter Envelope's
record
env amount
settings.
resonance
and pressing
preset
to 6.
decay
to 2.
sustain
to 10.
env amount
and settings.
decay
Sequential
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