Sequential Prophet-10 Desktop Synthesizer

General

There are more than enough synth-based treasure hunters seeking out those more legendary synths of the dusty past, steadily pushing the prices up to a near astronomical levels. As such, those legendary synths have only got double or even triple-legendary, and one such triple-legend is the original Sequential Circuits Prophet 10. Essentially two Prophet 5s rammed into one box, the P10 came with a lot of functional quirks including the demand for a double keyboard. But its monstrous, hulking form had its own particular charm. Recently, we've been treated to reissues of both the Prophet 5 and 10, with the 10 offering double the polyphony, and now, for sound designers already kitted out with a perfectly solid MIDI keyboard, comes the desktop version of the Prophet 10. Behold!

The Sequential Prophet 10 Desktop

Even the original P10 was a synthesizer that anyone could actually understand. With a comfortably accessible subtractive model at the core, you could easily get to grips with it within the space of an evening. You get two CEM-CVOS fed and filled by a noise generator, and sync can be added between each VCO to shape a further sonic dimension. The result is then sent through the mixer, and then on through the filter, where the character of any of the earlier revisions of the Prophet can be selected. In terms of aesthetics, the P10 looks every bit like the P5, but with the added difference of that doubled polyphonic range, giving you ten voices to play with, just in case you find that five is not enough. Where the original P10 was seen as a kind of utopia of synthesis, in a slightly more manageable way, the P10 Desktop certainly holds up those optimistic, and ever potent ideals.