SEQUENTIAL PROPHET X Demo & Review

[@HelicopterDown]

LOVE that Interstellar-esque sound at 7:06. Easily the most AMAZING patch I've heard out of this thing so far. It sounds like a blend of orchestra, organ, and synth, all in one.

[@Petsublak]

This has to be the best demo of the Prophet X, I've viewed. Seriously I must have watched them all. Well done with the video and many thanks !!!

[@RoomAtTheTopStudio]

The great Katsunori with the Prophet X. Wow!!

[@randygully8139]

Out of pretty much all of the tutorial ,introduction videos of this unit this gentleman here just knows how to play this ...and I mean phenomenally...!!! Yes I am ecstatic about my unit .[ XL ] I own this and can look to figure out what he is playing but it sure would be great to look at the board to see what he is dialing in . Great player ,like a duck to water ,he plays it like he built it ...Really great and intuitive .

[@musictrackjp]

English sub-title is available now !!

[@russellbutterfield1419]

For those who say it has no wow appeal, you sit behind one and play one for a few days, you'll soon change you're mind

[@russellbutterfield1419]

@manny Yes it does

[@manny7662]

I got one in sept 2021. I can stand by your statement. It’s almost criminal how overlooked it is.

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Absolutely love mine! It’s replaced all my workstations as a composer.

[@ohtobeforgiven]

Congrats, these are one of those instruments I dream of having, live it well friend.

[@EverettDudgeon138]

embazle Thanks Man! I certainly will. I did a video series about the PX if you are interested. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5OqaZZnf6tjp8k

[@clayton_jansen]

EverettDudgeon138 i saw it. I was really impressed

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@robertsutton7949]

You’re on every video I’m looking at for the Prophet X 😂👍

[@L77kim77l]

MODX ...stand by for the next video :D

[@sub-jec-tiv]

After i bought this synth, i sent it my own VCO samples. Once i started using it, i stopped touching other polyphonic synths, and 2 years later, sold my other polys. This is the best-sounding synth i have ever owned (including Jupiter-8). This is a future classic. Misunderstood now.

[@ArthurStone]

Nice demo; great audio quality...thank you :D

[@lqr824]

The piano+layers around 2:00 reminds me of my TS-10. ２：００頃のピアノレイヤがちょっとTS-10らしい

[@tommymandel]

Yeah! - i Love the TS-10 for Piano-pad layering!!!

[@TDMXJAPAN]

久々に本気で欲しいと思えるシンセですね。 デジタルとアナログのハイブリッドというと、何となく出音が想像つくところですが、これは予測できませんね。音色づくりの無限の可能性を感じさせてくれます。 プロフェット特有の深く太いサウンドも健在ですね。 音色のプリセットはどうなんでしょうか？せっかく満足のいくものが(偶然に出来る場合も)出来たらフィルターのパラメーターも含めて記憶させたいですね。 関係ないけど、名前が「プロジェクトX」っぽい(笑)

[@Shmynkellbonkenstein]

Sounds cool but I haven’t got 4000 eur/usd. Katsunori is awesome as always

[@shookstylez]

i own the prophet x, and it's a fantastic synthesizer. however, all the demo's don't do it justice. You can create your own sounds very easily, and it's great to have in the studio if you already own other VCO, or DCO type of synthesizers. To mangle with the samples is really inspiring, and you can create any sound you want. Especially when you are interested in the Fairlight type of sounds, this is an awesome modern sample based synthesizer.

[@RayyMusik]

Marcusmiller You hit the nail. The PX is fantastic *if* hooked up to an analog synth (mostly Rev2 in my studio). As a stand-alone board it doesn’t sound very powerful.

[@thespectator2976]

sounds so thin, like theres something missing.

[@sK3LeTvM1]

Surprisingly, whatever synth, it always sounds 'fantastic' when judged by the owners... LOL

[@derekbaker3279]

@@thespectator2976 There are plenty of harmonics....the sounds are complex....but the EQing makes it sound 'thinner' IMHO. I bet it would sit well in a mix

[@VadimShinnik]

Can You tell me please something about Sequential Prophet XL: like a synth is very powerfull, but if I will use on the stage like a pianist, long passages, with polyphony is OK??? Thank you!

[@cyberwarfare9118]

That beat at 0:29 is FILTHY. 好きです

[@shivercanada]

Freaking Phenomenal!!! I so want this, considering deeply...

[@JordySimons]

Ordered!!!

[@daisukes8205]

流石ですねー🎵

[@barrnycharlton8951]

love the neon blue

[@riyad81200]

Try The Waldorf Quantum mr. Ujiie

[@CO5MA]

Riyad Rachidi Yes! :) I can lend mine to him :)

[@jupitermarx]

I wonder if the synth portion is the same as the Prophet 12?;)

[@RayyMusik]

Mark Eubanks Not really. 2 instead of 4 OSCs, only an - albeit very good - 4-pole LPF. :/

[@xnonsuchx]

Every demo of this I see just makes it look like a ROMpler w/ the ability to do more dirty effects and add some analog synth, so I don't even get why the Prophet name was given to it, let alone the the cost.

[@tommymandel]

Aren't Suzuki/Hammond's organs MODELED - that is different than both Analog and Rompler. @chief tp

[@nitaigauranga3849]

Still not convinced about this thing.

[@jumpingman8160]

So... guess im going for the Quantum for that price

[@markuskoivisto]

The Quantum is a great synth and certainly more traditional.

[@CO5MA]

Come to my channel to hear them both :)

[@RayyMusik]

Markus Koivisto The Quantum more traditional? I find its UI by far more up-to-date.

[@markuskoivisto]

octopus34 I guess conventional would be a better way to put it.

[@geoffk777]

@@markuskoivisto There's nothing conventional about it. The waveform mode is mostly regular analog, but you also have wavetable, particle, granular and resonant synthesis that are almost unavailable on other instruments. The 2.0 beta adds FM too. It's a far more versatile and powerful instrument than the Prophet X here.

[@23maschine56]

Kronos2持ってる俺には、べつにkronosでいいじゃんってなった。

[@markuskoivisto]

I don't understand why they left out woodwind samples, seems like a pretty glaring omission.

[@Petsublak]

My thoughts exactly!

[@creatorsremose]

More shitty presets from DSI. Why do they even bother... it would be better if they shipped their keyboards with empty banks than with these shitty presets. Thank you Katsunori!

[@RayyMusik]

Creator's Remorse Empty banks? You can easily erase all user banks and still have some well-done patches in the factory banks. Do you really need more than 512 user patches?

[@venomslair137]

That's an evil Sci-Fi noise machine!!! It has a bunch of flaws but it has its charm.

[@chieftp]

I don't know. all the demos I've heard so far of this instrument are just decent samples that have a creepy factor to them that I can't quite figure out. is this all this $4K board does? seems like they would have been better off to do a "normal" workstation keyboard with the best quality samples available (without the creepy factor,) a small sequencer (maybe 8 tracks or something since most people do computer based sequencing now,) and a bank of either digital waveforms (ala DW8000,) an FM engine, or just a couple of DCOs, and some effects, and price it between $2,000-2500. also, an Ensoniq sized display would have been nice too. I think they really missed the mark with this one. it's just not going to have a large market outside of people wanting run of the mill samples with a horror movie vibe to them.

[@RayyMusik]

Well, the PX isn‘t meant to be a workstation but s.th. special to produce “all kinds of crazy shit” (Dave Smith). It is nearly useless as a stand-alone keyboard but really shines in collaboration with an analog synth (Rev2 in my studio). There is an “FM engine”: via the gigantic mod matrix everything can FM everything. Together with some samples, e.g. the VS waveforms, it can produce metallic sounds the DX7 could only dream of. The PX does have major weaknesses, though: - all samples and oscillators have to pass the bottleneck of one single VCA ENV; - the oscillators (same as in the P12 AFAIK) sound digitally thin; - while the percentage of “creepy” samples is only ca. 10, many of the ‘traditional’ ones sound muffled (acoustic pianos, strings,brass, wood); the synth samples are crap; - many samples exist in up to 12 variations just to fill the 150 GB; what are “mid”-sized samples good for? I guess, 8Dio withheld many of their really excellent samples to sell them later for extra money - and failed to do even this. The grand piano and P5 samples they anounced for the end of August are postponed “by the end of this year”. Finally, there’s an unhealthy amount of software bugs in the early PX. So my advice is: wait for another 6 months, get the PX then, hook it up to a good analog - and be happy. :)

[@chieftp]

I have a REV2. I wouldn't trade it for this. in fact, I'd love to trade my REV2 for a Nord A1 if it had 61 keys.

[@RayyMusik]

chieftp I wouldn’t trade my Rev2 for the PX either - and vice versa. Those are totally different machines which perfectly complement each other.

[@bertg5294]

nord synths suck. get a Virus.

[@chieftp]

not paying $3K for a fake analog synth, but thanks for the suggestion.

[@badstringstudio]

I have listened to tons of demos of this unit, and there is some sonic "colour" that is totally unpleasant to me.

[@RayyMusik]

Confirmed. The DSP oscillators sound tinny. They should have taken the DCOs from the Rev2. The filters, however, are great. Cranking up the filter drive kind of ‘heals’ the poor sound of the OSCs to a certain extent.

[@riyad81200]

It’s Too expensive ! 4K €

[@bertg5294]

too

[@letMeSayThatInIrish]

It's to expensive what dirt is to cheap.

[@lordbachus]

Well, atleast its orriginal.. and compared to what high end synths used to cost in the 70’s, its quite cheap..

[@sawlfo]

your not going to like the price of the moog one.

[@riyad81200]

roberto campos Yes I now it’s price.......8000 € !!!!!!!!!

[@MrSpasticdancer]

it can probably do way better sounds but the factory presets suck

[@RayyMusik]

There are some really good factory patches. Don’t miss the sequences of the drum patches; awesome! 50% of the factory patches are noisy, ‘cinematic’ stuff though.

[@jacobbrown1690]

no it actually does suck. .....if you want something really unique buy a used roland v synth gt

[@jerm76]

I heard better stuff from the Yamaha MODX videos

[@matszh]

I agree, I think Yamaha hit the nail with the MODX.

[@issiewizzie]

It's so difficult to be impressed by some keyboards sounds as we all now layer sounds from different plugins to make our sounds sound lush.

[@homelessballoon]

This synth can easily be replaced by what we already have: A sequencer, sampler and filters.

[@SPAZZOID100]

Still no wow factor from this thing.

[@badstringstudio]

exactly

[@deltadanman]

Sounds like Sequential sampled a lotta armpit farts & Hitchcock movies... :(

[@sub-jec-tiv]

ばか 😂

[@studioalan33]

プロか。。。

[@alphare6810]

super MACHINE!

[@lqr824]

面白いデモありがとうございますが、V-SynthGTの方が好きかな？？ それと、HammondかHammondのシミュレーションじゃないオルガンは使うつもりがありません。 Thanks for the interesting demo, but I wonder if I like the V-Synth GT more? Also, I can't see why I'd ever use an organ sound that wasn't a Hammond or Hammond simulation. Doing an organ sound on a synthesizer sounds like a synthesizer. Do we want the entire piece of music to sound like a synthesizer, or do we want it to sound like a variety of instruments?

[@loopman6466]

I`m totally agree with you....I prefer the V Synth GT to the PX, Roland alredy made something of Great and special +10 years ago

[@qwestt1304]

What the world want is another 80's powerhouse OB and Jupiter 8 that's all

[@Bananskuden]

Workstations may be fun to own and great use in a mix, but they are boring to watch. It's not an instrument, it's a - well, workstation (two very boring words put together, actually).

[@Bananskuden]

The synth strings do sound great though!

[@jaggass]

Its everything that a DSI shouldn't do.

[@superchickensuperchicken7939]

a B3 organ

[@jacobbrown1690]

i like the korg prologue better

[@georgemargaris]

4000$??? Who can afford this these days?

[@chieftp]

people who aren't perpetually broke

[@bertg5294]

I can

[@georgemargaris]

good for you

[@markuskoivisto]

It’s the price of a Nord Stage, and those are ubiquitous if you ever go see a show.

[@bertg5294]

Stage 3 is less capable.

[@sjcongo]

Congrats on choosing the worst presets 👏

[@TimShoebridge]

Ditto. I particularly enjoyed the steel drums! =D

[@funkysynths]

Uninteresting and unmusical sounding. Soulless, really... and at $4K too lol. Heck, a D50 sounds vastly more interesting, musical, and soulful than this. No fault against Ujiie though, love his demos.

[@dirkkeersmaekers4343]

or a modx6,much cheaper

[@rainbow7apple]

オンリーでコメント追加するのは構わないと思いますが、せめて音と演技の統一はしてほしいかな

[@kaostrip]

rien que l'attitude de katsunori suffit a prouver que ce bidule numérique a +4000 boules sonne cheap ,plat et sans vie ! il y a tellement mieux ailleurs a ce prix en hybrid analo/sample ! rien que le #WALDORF quantum met littéralement en PLS ce truc X quand on entend un vrai synthé analogique vintage,des les premiere notes le son procure une emotion et une identité unique qu'aucun synthé actuel (analogique ou numérique) n'est capable de faire ! meme a 5000 balles ! C'est triste en 2018 de baver sur des vieux truc de +40ans et d'avoir un sourie immediat et le frisson a l’écoute d'un jupiter8 ou d'un CS80 !

[@CO5MA]

AXL trip On discutait un temps ensemble au sujet du Solaris, te souviens-tu? J’ai eu un Prophet X et actuellement j’ai un Quantum :) Si ça t’intéresse, regarde mes dernières vidéos!

[@kaostrip]

dak je regarde de suite ;)

[@_EightySix]

i'd rather have a Casio SK-1.

[@Petsublak]

Lol! That was my first keyboard! 30+ years ago. Was really impressed with the dog bark sample 😅😂 - happy days......

[@ronjon1444]

l Speak ah fluent Japanese , so here's what he said. As soon as camera go off , me and friends shall disect this and then sell all of Dave's Secret ideas ,to Korg , Roland and Yamaha. Thank you for creating every thing America. So we can continue to take your inventions and technology. You make we take. Your friends Japan.

[@Petsublak]

😅😂👍

[@geoffk777]

The samples and virtual analog both sound OK, but there is no way I could justify spending over 400,000 Yen ($4000) for this, when Kontakt and some VSTs would sound as good or better for a fraction of the price.