‘How did the Prophet 600 differ sound wise from the Prophet 5? Can someone please elaborate on this?’. And Behringer, it sure would be nice if you put some of that engineering horsepower into something original. Save your coin for the unique stuff, not copies of mass market synths that were cost and feature reduced compromises. U-He’s DIVA is much better sounding and more programmable.

Even Moog is making interesting, unique synths that cover a broad price range while not being completely derivative of their flagships (there are unique features and capabilities in each, again IMO).īottom line: The Prophet 600 was not that good. With so much innovation happening in the synth market right now, Behringer continues to drive…lining their pockets by copying 30+ year old designs? OK, maybe make a few, but how about something original? Arturia is doing it. But there’s an awful lot of crappy “analog” synths going for top dollar on Reverb right now. The nostalgia and prices I see for old synths is occasionally deserved. It is great to see this market brought back to life by (again, IMO) the modular crowd. IMO this is largely driven by artists looking for new sounds and finding them in old synths. Analog synth prices were a joke for most of the 90s. PPG faded and later resurfaced as Waldorf. Sequential eventually started dying and was bought by Yamaha. IMHO (and remember I was there, selling this stuff and seeing interest die) DCOs, FM and Sampling killed the (true) analog synth. Yamaha productized the DX7 technology into a dizzying array of synths, both up market and down market. Roland responded with cheaper analog synths as they had DCOs in the Juno-60 (released before the DX7) and later JX-3P, JX-8P, and more. MIDI enabled an explosion in synth availability and the DX7 turned everything upside-down with a 2K synth that made the analog beasts fall off a cliff. Mostly in features but also in sound quality. Those flagships spawned scaled down less expensive derivative’s that were compromises. We had the PPG Wave, Memorymoog, Jupiter 8, Synergy, Prophet 5 and 10, etc. The Jupiter less so but it never really blew me away, I was working in a music stores the keyboard/synth guy in 1984. The Prophet 600 and The Jupiter 6 were one (the?) first MIDI equipped synths. Would be nice if they did something original with all of the engineering prowess. What do you think about the prospect of a $600 Sequential Prophet knockoff? Share your thoughts in the comments!

We’re working hard to get it to you below US$ 600 while shipment is targeted for coming January.” The PRO-800 is now an fully polyphonic, 8-Voice Dual VCO synth with many new features. Together with GliGli we have taken this beautiful synth to the next level. “Some time ago we started a wonderful journey with the famous synth designer GliGli who rose to fame for his highly respected improvements around the Sequential PRO-600. Here’s what Behringer has to say about the Pro-800: The Pro-600 was designed to be a more affordable Prophet synthesizer, and was notable for being the first synth commercially available to implement MIDI.ĭetails are to come on Behringer’s Pro-800, but it’s a polyphonic synth module, based on the Pro-600 design and mimicking the original synth’s look. The Behringer Pro-800 is based on the Sequential Pro-600 from 1982. Behringer has officially announced a Sequential Circuits Prophet synth knockoff, the Pro-800.

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