25 Aug
2009
25 Aug
'09
2:02 p.m.
Jens M Andreasen wrote:
I think the latter could be more expressive when there
are no more
voices than you can easily direct with a single two-handed chord, to get
in control of the stage again. Six voices would pretty good for that,
but I remember five like the Prophet had was annoying. Or that at least
I got lost fighting my own clumpsyness.
I misunderstood. Okay, even if a limit is wanted, the limit should have
a limit for being a limit ;).
Sometimes the Prophet 5 can be a pain, when you like to have no cuts,
but clean crossings from one 3-voice-chord to another 3-chord voice. In
practise the change from one 3-voice-chord to another often means only
to change two of the three notes, while 1 note still is held and because
of the 2 + 4 split issue, in practise often 4-voice-chords are just
played by 3-voices and in addition the bass adds the fourth voice. Maybe
this was Sequential's intent. The Prophet 5 originally doesn't ship with
MIDI, while later synth like the Oberheim Matrix-1000 have MIDI, so it
became interesting of taking care that guitars have 6 strings, even if
80ies synth Pickups were unusable, dunno if it's better today.