street priceThis mono synthesizer had every chance to become a bestseller. The reason is simple - it is assembled by a well-known Japanese company producing audio-video equipment with the same components that are used in the Prophet-6 which is Dave Smith Instruments top synthesizer. AS-1 became the second in the line of Toraiz along with SP-16 sampler, which was also created in collaboration with the legendary American synth maker (Dave Smith was responsible for the analog filter technology, also taken from Prophet-6).
In fact, AS-1 is an “extracted” from Profit-6 voice enclosed in a compact keyboardless housing. At the same time, the famous low and high pass filters are kept the way they were, there is an envelope processor, a chain of effects and, which is important, a sequencer and an arpeggiator.
Of course, AS-1 is, in some way, a tribute to the fashion of recent years for analog synthesizers and the fight back to competitors - KORG monologue and Novation Bass Station II. On the other hand, AS-1 is an entrance ticket to the world of classical sounds of the famous Prophet at an attractive price. If earlier many of us could only watch the video about Prophet-6 and dream that “the day I will buy it will come”, now this day became 5 times closer – that’s the price difference between Prophet-6 and Pioneer DJ AS-1.
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Sound Module/ Tone Generator | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| Without Keys, Desktop | |
| Archetype | |
| Analogue (A) | |
| Polyphony | |
| Monophonic | |
| Multi Timbral Capacity | |
| Monotimbral | |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Synthesis Method | Analog Subtractive |
| Oscillators overall | 2 |
| Oscillator Type | VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) |
| Oscillators per voice | 2 |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Square |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Triangle |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Saw |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| Single Voice Preset | 495 |
| Filter | |
| Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF) | |
| High-pass Filter (HPF) | |
| Low-pass Filter (LPF) | |
| 2-pole | |
| 4-pole | |
| Resonance | |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| AD | |
| AR | |
| Modulation | |
| LFO: LFO Count | 1 |
| Effects | |
| Chorus | |
| Delay | |
| Phaser | |
| Distortion | |
| Ring Modulation | |
| Sequencer | |
| Step Sequencer | |
| Max Events Count | 64 |
| Arpegiator/ Portamento | |
| Arpegiator Mode | Latch |
| Arpegiator | |
| Portamento | |
| MIDI | |
| General MIDI (GM) | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| Display | |
| Display type | OLED |
| Built-in controllers | |
| Ribbon Controller | 1 |
| Audio out | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 2 |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) headphones preamplified | 1 |
| Computer Interfaces | |
| USB | USB PC Link |
| USB | MIDI through USB |
| Power | |
| Power Supply | External |
| Amperage | 1.5 A |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | 68.6 mm |
| Width | 267.4 mm |
| Depth | 177.7 mm |
| Weight | 1.4 kg |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 2017 |
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