Any musicians here have any experience with using a prophet synthesizer? If so, do you think it’s worth the investment?

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Prophets are neat

But synths are hard so if you aren't experienced with them, maybe get some experience before dropping the loot

Do you mean the Prophet-5 or one of the old ones?

I do, granted its an old old Yamaha but it does the job! My abelton push broke a couple months ago, and I’d rather save up for something that I can have more use out of like the prophet 5. The push was fun but felt limited.

No experience, but I also want to get into synthesizers.. there are also few other alternatives to look at:

-Novation Summit (my top choice)

-Asm Hydrasynth

-The Korg Prologue 16

-Behringer DeepMind

Played with the korg and fell in love with it, excited for our synth journey together

🙋‍♂️ had the Prophet Rev2 for years - to the question of is it worth it, the answer depends on what you’re looking to do with it. The Prophets (especially the ones that were built by Dave Smith are super-flexible instruments and great for the deep rumbly stuff, beautiful arpeggiated runs (built in sequencer) and awesome chords (with the large polyphony).

When I bought mine, I got it via Reverb and used buy now, pay later service so it felt like a more approachable purchase as opposed to paying outright.

Thank you for this 🫂

Definitely might finance it probably will get it on sweetwater bc their buy now pay later option is so nice.

I was feeling really limited with an abelton push, i couldn’t make the music I wanted to honestly, needed a synth/keyboard to do what I want to do, and I’d way rather invest in something high quality that’ll last :))

Prophet will def last you and you'll grow with it and it with you

One of the greats on the prophet https://youtu.be/j4qfT2dxU6E

james blake has some of my favorite chord progressions, insanely talented dude

Saaaammmmmme - dude's got an extra 10 digits or something

saw him live once! true talent!

I bet it was awesome

Love that man

Fellow musician and kinda newbie around. I mix folk with synths but confess I use them as vst, not familiar with them as hardware.

I own the prophet 08 and it is one of my greatest acquisitions

Dream home.