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I own a Prophet 5 Rev. 2 SSM now for a few months. A paid a ridiculous 2200 € for it. I feel it´s worth every penny, because I got blown away immediately when turned it on before buying it. I owned a Jup 8 and a pro one before. The Pro One sounded completely different. So if a Pro-One is a “One voice Rev. 3� the sound is really different.
The sound is different to a Jup. 8 also. Only the Prophet makes these spacy sounding beautiful resonances– and I think that´s due to the SSM chips - and the keyboard tracking is really musical in context with these filters. It gives this great sounds that every tries to emulate but can not without this box.
BTW: This doesn´t mean its so much better then the Jup. 8 – it´s different. But its far better and really different to the Pro-One.
The software emulations are totally different – they are not even 1% of the Prophet. All of them. If You aren´t deaf though :-). A virus would be closer …. So still 10000 miles away.
Even the prophet 5 SSM sounds somehoew closer to the cs-80 as the virtual cs-80 sounds to the cs-80 as far as I can judge from the recordings I heard. This shows how different analog technology still is, because the architecture of the Yamaha is so striking different. Use VAs what they are made for, but don´t think or expect they are a Prophet in any way. I´ll like my Virus B and still keep it. It´s a great tool and can do different things.
PS: If anyone want´s to sell a jup-8 or cs-80 please leave me a note.
PPS: I own a mini as well and it´s funny that they all like the mini-filter so much (which I do also), but I think the Prophet 5 I have is at least equal or perhaps even superior.
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