| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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I see Syco Systems and The Synthesizer Company in London are
advertising two 'new' products: Midimoog and -- wait for it --
Prophet 5.
Tehy're desribed as 'the classic instruments re-packaged'. Re-packaging
for the minimoog entails sticking it in a 19" rackmount box, adding a
fifth oscillator, and giving you aftertouch, velocity and all that
great midi stuff.
Details on the Prophet are not forthcoming, other that it, too, has
been racked. Hopefully, it still has that exciting indecisiveness about
whether to work or not, but presumably this will be undecidable via
midi.
If there really is a market for this stuff, sounds like the backlash
against digital (or at least software-based) instruments, if not
here already, is being encouraged.
Richard.
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| 2056.1 | analog mind ... | MIZZOU::SHERMAN | ECADSR::SHERMAN 227-3299, 223-3326 | Thu Jul 27 1989 10:27 | 4 |
Prophet 5? Boy, that shakes the cobwebs out o' me head. I seem
to recall seeing my first one in about 1980 in a studio.
Steve
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| 2056.2 | SALSA::MOELLER | Survival on the New Frontier | Thu Jul 27 1989 12:45 | 1 | |
Prophet V, MIDI'd in a rack unit ? - I'd buy one, if it worked | |||||
| 2056.3 | Interesting!! | GUESS::YERAZUNIS | Running from the Turing Police | Thu Jul 27 1989 18:10 | 7 |
Quite!!! the Prophet-5 had a truly amazing arpeggiator and (I believe)
you could connect the arpeggiator and the LFOs in some way for truly
killer sounds.
Are these polyphonic reimplementations or are they monophonic ?
-Bill
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| 2056.4 | no big change | MARVIN::MACHIN | Fri Jul 28 1989 11:40 | 4 | |
The minimoog is definitely mono, so I imagine the prophet will be
5-note poly.
Richard.
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| 2056.5 | ad in KEYBOARD | NORGE::CHAD | Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte | Tue Aug 01 1989 15:35 | 12 |
quite by accdent I just noticed on page 87 of the August 89 KEYBOARD an ad for the MidiMoog. 4-rack space high! " ... unique characteristics: additional lfo, multiple trigger, osc. syncing ... " Chad | |||||
| 2056.6 | i'm in the moog for love | WOTVAX::KENT | Wed Aug 02 1989 04:19 | 8 | |
Re -1
How else would they fit all those knobs on ?
Paul.
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