Sequential - Prophet REV2 16 Synth

Dave Smith has set the bar very high by releasing his Prophet REV2, a 61-key synthesizer, a reissue of his famous Prophet '08, but with 16 voices of polyphony, two DCOs per voice, and Curtis filters at the heart of its sound engine, and many new features to make it an even more powerful instrument.

You have the possibility to download the sounds of the Prophet '08 to play them identically, or take advantage of the 16 voices of Dave Smith's REV2. With double the polyphony of its predecessor, the REV 2 allows you to assign voices as you wish, to play incredible chords with two hands, to superimpose 2 patches of 8 voices to obtain rich and complex textures, to divide the keyboard into 2 independent instruments with 8 voices .... in short, creativity is limitless. Its bi-timbral operation, waveform modulation, built-in FX engine, polyphonic Step sequencer, OLED display and USB port make it a real Killer!

The high-end 5-octave semi-weighted velocity-sensitive keyboard with aftertouch is perfect. The essence of Dave Smith's Prophet REV2 sound comes from the 2 DCOs (plus a sub-octave generator on oscillator 1) per voice, with 4 waveforms (sawtooth, triangle, sawtooth + triangle, and pulse) and a Curtis 2/4-pole resonant low-pass filter per voice. These filters were used in the Prophet '08, but also in many instruments from the '70s and '80s.

On the other hand, the waveform modulation of the REV2 is brand new. This function consists of varying the pulse width of any waveform manually, by adjusting its width or by using an LFO or other modulation source, to change the timbre continuously.

The effects section offers reverb, delays (standard and BBD), chorus, phase shifter, ring modulation, and distortion.