The Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Module is the compact brother of the Prophet P12, but still retains the same enormous feature set and hybrid digital/analogue architecture.
Endowed with twelve voices of polyphony, the Prophet P12 module utilizes five DSP based oscillators followed by an analogue signal path, including the familiar Curtis low-pass filters, analogue VCA’s and snappy envelopes. The Oscillators can even be used to modulate filters, envelopes and even LFO’s. Tone and sound design are at the heart of this powerful machine.
The Prophet 12 panel layout is fast and intuitive and employs tactile control over operations such as filter frequency and resonance, and distortion. An OLED display gives you clear visual feedback on every parameter of synth control as well as assignable mod buttons for performance control.
The main features of the Prophet P12 include:
Oscillators
Five DSP-based oscillators per voice (including one sine wave sub oscillator)
Four classic wave shapes (saw, square, triangle, sine) per oscillator
Twelve selectable complex shapes per oscillator
Three noise types per oscillator: white, pink, violet
Analog VCAs
Shape modulation
Oscillator cross modulation: frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude modulation (AM)
Hard sync on each of the four oscillators
Character Effects
Five high-quality digital effects. Thicken the signal and add harmonics or completely destroy the signal pre-filter.
Girth and Air are high and low shelf equalizers with harmonic excitement. Useful for thickening and/or adding air to the signal.
Hack and Decimate are sample and bit rate reduction algorithms which can add subtle grit or completely destroy the signal. It's harsh yet musical!
Drive is a soft saturator for adding soft distortion and harmonic content to the signal
Filters
Famed Curtis 2- or 4-pole resonant analog low-pass filter (self oscillates in 4-pole mode) per voice
2-pole resonant analog high-pass filter per voice
Feedback and Delay
Tuned feedback
Four-tap syncable multi delay with feedback and amount per delay per voice
Envelopes
Four Delay + ADSR envelopes (LPF, VCA , and two Auxiliary envelopes)
Auxiliary envelopes 3 and 4 freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations
All envelopes can repeat/loop
LFOs
Four syncable LFO's with phase offset and slew per LFO
Modulation
16 x 2 modulation matrix with 26 mod sources and 97 mod destinations
Modulation assignment buttons enable quick and easy modulation routing
Arpeggiator
Sophisticated programmable arpeggiator with up, down, up+down, random, assign modes
Re-latching arpeggiator
Programmable Distortion
Independent programmable stereo analog distortion per layer.
Controls
12 knobs and 34 buttons enable deep and comprehensive editing with little to no menu diving.
Crisp OLED display is easily visible in low light situations and from many angles.
Memory
396 user and 396 factory programs
Direct program access using numeric keypad and dedicated User, Factory, and Bank buttons
Playlist mode for generating easily accessible setlists of your favorite programs. Create four play lists with up to forty programs each!