Step 6~ Prophet

[Stupid American Pig]

After having an especially inspiring jam session at my local guitar center, I became very enamored with the Prophet 6. My local GC had this one marked at 1499. I was kind of shocked, and did my usual can I have it for this price out the door routine. They came back and said, sorry that is a mistake, and its only the module that is at this price. Then they proceeded to tell me that they could offer a slight break on the full(and at this point 3 month used) keyboard on display. I left, but decided I wanted one. Zzounds had a warehouse resealed keyboard for a discount so I bought it. It shipped with software v 1.2 so I updated it to the latest v1.4. Aside from the one quibble of it only being a 4 octave keyboard, I have to say this is the most fun Ive had with a musical instrument in years, if not ever. This thing sounds great, and can do Prophet 5 sounds pretty much spot on. I have a song I made on the Pro-53 that had a bass line that Ive always loved the tone of. It turns out it came in the factory sound bank for the Prophet-6. I tweaked it a bit, and while it was familiar, it was much bigger and room filling than the pro53. I now intend to pull up the arturia prophet v and see how close they are. Aside from that, Im really impressed at the sound of this thing. Anyone else have a prophet 6?

[Daags]

My local GC had this one marked at 1499. I was kind of shocked, and did my usual can I have it for this price out the door routine. They came back and said, sorry that is a mistake, and its only the module that is at this price.

PROtip: when something is listed as half the price it should be, don't do your 'usual can I have it for this price out the door routine'

[zerocrossing]

Welcome to the club. I got an open box deal on a module for about that much a while ago and I jumped right on it. I love it. Don't bother comparing it to Prophet V. I did that already. It's sad how bad the Arturia sounds in comparison. What I am interested in is U-He's Prophet 5 emulation that being developed. I bet it's damn close. I'll probably stick with the hardware for most stuff, but I'm sure I'll find use for the plugin too.

[Stupid American Pig]

My local GC had this one marked at 1499. I was kind of shocked, and did my usual can I have it for this price out the door routine. They came back and said, sorry that is a mistake, and its only the module that is at this price.

PROtip: when something is listed as half the price it should be, don't do your 'usual can I have it for this price out the door routine'

Fair point. However this tactic used to work about 98% of the time. I guess GCs new management has decided that price breaks are not a thing anymore. That pretty much means that I'm not buying from there anymore. I still have options locally for guitars but electronic gear means that I'm probably going to have to buy from Jrr, zzounds or sweetwater.

[tuzemec]

The desktop version is number one on my wishlist, but it's ~ 2400 EU at Thomann.de.
And with Rev2 on the horizon... I'm a bit confused.
But still... I just don't know I'll just say "f**k it" I'll order it.

[Stupid American Pig]

I'm still really happy with this thing. Build quality is really solid. I actually like the smaller keyboard because it allows me to have it on my desk. Great sound. The original p5 presets sound pretty close the what I remember but this has a great range of tones as well.