So, we've had a few teasers - closeups and detail, plus a shot of the video shoot, presumably for this very video.

But the news is finally out, the new Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 - synthesists with a long memory might be getting excited that its some kind of Pro-One reissue - but no. Dave Smith says he's much happier working on new synth designs rather than rehashing old ones.

Basically, its got 4 digital Oscillators, you'll know that the Prophet-12 features these and Dave regularly says that he can innovate more with these than regular analogue oscillators. There's also a new dual mode analogue filter - with both ladder and a state variable. We also notice a couple of pressure/touch strips like the Tempest and P12..

Speculation was also rife that it was going to be an affordable mono, but no, this baby is listed at $1999 so takes it up to the premo class.

Here's the skinny:

Oscillators

• Four DSP-based oscillators plus one sine wave sub oscillator
• Four classic wave shapes (saw, square, triangle, sine) per oscillator
• Twelve selectable complex shapes per oscillator
• 13 Superwaves
• Three noise types per oscillator: white, pink, violet
• Shape modulation/pulse width/superwave detune amount
• Oscillator cross modulation: frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude modulation (AM)
• Hard sync, individual Glide, Oscillator Slop

Paraphonic Playability

• True 4-voice paraphonic mode with individually-gated envelopes per oscillator

Character Effects

• Five high-quality digital effects. Thicken the signal and add harmonics or completely destroy the signal pre-filter.
• Girth and Air are high and low shelf equalizers with harmonic excitement. Useful for thickening and/or adding air to the signal.
• Hack and Decimate are sample and bit rate reduction algorithms which can add subtle grit or completely trash the signal. It's harsh yet musical.
• Drive is a soft saturator for adding soft distortion and harmonic content to the signal

Filters

• Dual analog filters operate in serial or parallel
• Filter 1 is a 4-pole resonant analog low-pass filter inspired by the original Prophet-5 filter.
• Filter 2 is a 2-pole resonant analog state-variable filter inspired by the Oberheim SEM filter and can be continuously varied between low-pass, notch, and high-pass operation, with an optional band-pass mode.
• Oscillator Split allows oscillators 1 & 2 to be sent to Filter 1 and oscillators 3 & 4 to Filter 2.

Feedback and Delay

• Tuned Feedback
• Three-tap syncable delay with feedback and amount controls, pan, and high-pass and low-pass filtering, all per delay. A separate fourth delay is a digital bucket-brigade delay (BBD) for analog-style effects.

Envelopes

• Five Delay + ADSR envelopes (Filter 1, Filter 2, VCA , and two Auxiliary envelopes)
• Auxiliary envelopes 4 and 5 freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations
• All envelopes can repeat/loop

LFOs

• Four syncable LFOs with phase offset and slew per LFO

Modulation

• 16 x 2 modulation matrix with over 50 mod sources and over 140 mod destinations
• Parameters that can be sent to CV outputs include oscillators, LFOs, envelopes, sequencer tracks and any other source within the modulation matrix. Runs up to audio rates.
• Gate Out for triggering external CV-compatible devices; any CV in can be used as a gate input.

Control Voltage Ins & Outs and Gate Out

• Four 1-volt-per-octave control voltage inputs and outputs for interfacing with modular synths and other CV-compatible devices
• Modulation assignment buttons enable quick and easy modulation routing.
• Mod Matrix runs up to audio rates.

Sequencer

• Advanced step sequencer provides up to 32 steps per sequence and up to 16 tracks.
• Supports real-time input, rests, and variable-length sequences
• Syncs to MIDI clock and external audio and CV input
• Sequences can control not only oscillator pitch but any parameter in the modulation matrix.

Arpeggiator

• Sophisticated arpeggiator with up, down, up+down, random, assign modes
• Supports real-time input, rests, and variable-length sequences
• Re-latching arpeggiation

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