Sequential Prophet 5 & 10 Part 1 🕵️‍♀️ Getting Started with Subtractive Synthesis Basics Tutorial

[@graysonkemp8870]

Finally. Finally! Someone who cuts the crap and starts from the bottom!

[@ToddUrban]

Glad it helped! 😃

[@dubioussource]

Love this tutorial! It's so helpful to go through the instrument incrementally like this.

[@ToddUrban]

Awesome! Glad it helped.

[@andrewmarkusmusic]

Todd, this is the best prophet tutorial I've seen. Looking forward to part 2.

[@ToddUrban]

Thank you so much for the kind words! It took about 6 months of research to make! 😉 You’ll love part 3!

[@andrewmarkusmusic]

@@ToddUrban I'm psyched. It's that area on the left that vexes me. I'm pretty good from the ocsillators and everything to the right of them.😆

[@ArmaniEdoizin1]

Yo, this is amazing, got a prophet 10 a week ago and this helps a bunch with it being my first synth.

[@ToddUrban]

@ArmaniEdoizin1 amazing first synth! Welcome to the club and glad the video helped!

[@64nightfly]

Thank you Todd! I have watched the video twice now and have learned so much. Now I can explore my Prophet 10 with a better understanding of the myriad of operational features and nuances of the settings.

[@ToddUrban]

Awesome. Great to hear that! 😃 Make sure you get to the 3rd video. That’s where the magic happens.

[@jpgay4372]

Hello. I'm considering a purchase. Would you buy the Prophet 10 in 2024?

[@64nightfly]

Yes, definitely! There are so many great options out there in the same or lower price range, some with MPE, stereo outputs, higher polyphony/multi-timbrality, onboard effects/arpeggiators/sequencers, etc. But, at the end of the day, I love the beautiful, full, analog sound of this seminal instrument and do not regret my purchase. It is a very capable, complex instrument, not at all lacking for creative sound design possibilities.

[@edgardvera3132]

Master class applicable to any synthesizer. I finally learned the power of filter tuning and tracking.

[@ToddUrban]

Awesome! That was the entire point. The concepts work on any subtractive synth! 😃

[@geha6596]

The best video on subtractive synthesis - so easy to understand and follow. And the choice of such a beauty (P5/10) to demonstrate it makes me want to watch it forever. Great work! Thank you so much for this!

[@ToddUrban]

Thanks you! I’m so glad to hear it was helpful! :)

[@StewartMcKee]

As a P5 owner, I've watched this before but feel like I should be required to watch it at least once a month. Having a 4th (including noise) sound source in the filter, the sync on osc A (which you can then modulate with the LFO) and the LF option on osc B, not to mention the simple joy of chorusing osc A and B....this synth does a LOT more than it appears. THANK YOU for this video.

[@ToddUrban]

Thank you for the comment. I’m glad it helps! Sometimes I’ll even go back to my old videos as a reminder of how I did things. (Like my Maschine+ video 😂)

[@IKUCHI-TRIBE-ICUICY]

Todd. So thankful for this amazing series. The best.

[@ToddUrban]

🙏🏻 thank you! 😃

[@doubtingtom37]

Extended, stressful indecision over next Polysynth. This video broke the log-jam and Prophet 5 just ordered. Headed for Part 2 ! 🙏🏻

[@ToddUrban]

You can't go wrong. It is a lifelong product that you will keep forever. Welcome to the club!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

great styff todd, never played a sequential, old or new! fun to learn about it, will help me learn the soft versions!

[@ToddUrban]

Thanks Woody! 🎹 Dave Smith has a great vision about how things should be laid out ergonomically. Once you learn the synth, it all makes great sense!

[@Dubb1000]

Thank you, this tutorial is dope!

[@ToddUrban]

😎Thanks for watching!

[@PlebeianCringe]

Absolutely fantastic tutorials, Todd! I really wish Sequential would make tutorial videos like this. Any plans of doing an in depth tutorial of the Oberheim OB-X8?

[@ToddUrban]

Thank you. I’d love to do an OBX8 series, but it is a matter of time as I really dive as deep as possible before creating any content. I will probably do something soon on it that goes into some unique aspects of that synth.

[@mwmusic29]

Great video - well laid out pointers for a very useful topic. Nice job!

[@ToddUrban]

Glad it helped! 😊 thanks for watching. 🙏🏻

[@matthewrivas1092]

Glad this video exist crushed it !

[@ToddUrban]

Thank you! 😎

[@mrkeeny]

Thank you so much for this, really useful

[@ToddUrban]

Great! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel! 😃

[@quimbas]

Learned a lot thanks!

[@ToddUrban]

Great! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. 📺

[@dannyanalog4423]

I have only the prophet 5 but that is the same only with 5 voives and i understand now more to get quiqly my perfect sound.

[@ToddUrban]

Great! Glad it helped! 🎹

[@Feldspar__]

The Prophet sounds great obviously but let's talk about your chord work. That's what makes these quick demos sound so nice. What chord patterns are you combining?

[@ToddUrban]

Oh! Thanks! Actually, I’m typically just stacking major and minor chords and keeping progressions really basic so that the focus is more on the sound of the instrument, rather than the progression. Sometimes I feel like it is too plain and vanilla, but I guess it’s working? Lol

[@SomebodyPickaName]

Your whole keyboard is an octave higher than mine (my transpose is at 0) but I was able to follow along pretty well. Thanks a bunch for making this series!

[@ToddUrban]

This would be based on where I set my oscillators, rather than transposing the keyboard. But yes, basically a similar effect in terms of where the pitch center would be located. Thank you for watching! :)

[@dannyanalog4423]

Thank you for that

[@geha6596]

I also have a P5 now, thanks to you, hahaha, but mine does not get completely silent on 0 PW as yours does in this video...

[@ToddUrban]

Do you have a vintage one? I believe the point at which the PW shape thins out to zero is at the opposite end. I would need to double check.

[@geha6596]

@@ToddUrban thanks for your quick reply - oh I forget to mention that I have a rev4 - but pls do not check, when watching your part 2 again, the part with the PWM, I could hear that also yours doesn’t go completely silent… thanks again for your great videos!!!

[@ToddUrban]

@@geha6596 great. Thanks for the update and thanks for watching! I have another video that compares the Prophet to the OB-X8 you might find super interesting. 🤓

[@isaachull1646]

Hello I realize this a ridiculous situation but I have suddenly become the owner of a neve 5060 centerpiece ,neve 1073 OBX pre amp, and an apogee symphony IO mk 2 and I have no idea how to set it all up and integrate with my DAW(logic) . And since most people with all this professional equipment actually know what they are doing I can’t find any clues online as to how I can get it up and running do you have any advice

[@ToddUrban]

Actually I have a video on analog summing and one on the 5060 that you’ll find would be a great start. If you still have questions, send me an email. I’m happy to talk to you about online help sessions.

[@jpgay4372]

Hello. I'm considering a purchase. Would you buy the Prophet 10 in 2024?

[@ToddUrban]

Absolutely. In my opinion, you are buying a modern version of a classic instrument. If that is what you want, it is a lifelong instrument to keep, learn, and grow with.

[@dvamateur]

There's nothing like an instrument with 88 weighted keys and decent piano sound to practice actual music. A synthesizer might be good as a occasional secondary keyboard, for Moog bass, leads, and special effects, all uses sparingly. With a synthesizer as a main keyboard, we tend to focus more on "sound making" than actual music, which is, in my opinion, just an excuse not to practice.

[@ToddUrban]

I agree that the fundamentals of keyboard based music starts at the piano. However, tons of synthesists out there have pushed the boundaries with synthesizers to go beyond where a piano took us. To me, it is as significant as the harpsichord to piano transition.

[@dvamateur]

@ToddUrban Not only acoustic and electric pianos. I like the stage keyboards with drawbars. There's a lot of good music that can be played on organs. Synthesizers? Not so much, aside from Moog bass, maybe, but even that... I asked a bass player recently of he heard of something called Moog bass. He said he never heard of it. So let's not fool ourselves. Synthesizers are really not considered real instruments. Perhaps autoaccompaniment keyboards ruined reputation of all electronic keyboards.

[@oholm09]

I got rev 4 im.not gonna sell it or give away thats my birthday present

[@ToddUrban]

I agree! Mine is a lifelong keeper!

[@Micke-i1y]

ITs not very good. Most waves plugs arent.

[@ToddUrban]

What does this have to do with Waves plugins?

[@dannyanalog4423]

I have only the prophet 5 but that is the same only with 5 voives and i understand now more to get quiqly my perfect sound.