street priceIn 1985 at the music fair in Milan Prophet 2000 was introduced - the first sampler made by SCI. Compared to its predecessors (E-mu Emulator and Ensoniq Mirage), the synthesizer got the sample rate almost twice bigger (12 bits versus 8) and offered quite a low cost.
Prophet 2000 is an 8-voice digital keyboard sampler. The most attracting peculiarity of the synthesizer is in its analog path based on CEM3379 per each voice:
To control the VCF and VCA independent ADSR envelope generators are provided.
The sound of Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 can be heard in Depeche Mode, D: ream, Hardfloor, Information Society, Mark Isham, John Carpenter records.
Country of origin / production: USA
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Synthesizer | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| With Keys | |
| Archetype | |
| Digital (D) | |
| Polyphony | |
| Digital Voices | 8 |
| Multi Timbral Capacity | 8 part(s) |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Technology of Sound Generation | PCM |
| Oscillators per voice | 8 |
| Filter | |
| Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF) | |
| Low-pass Filter (LPF) | |
| 4-pole | |
| 24dB | |
| Resonance | |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| Filter | ADSR |
| Amp | ADSR |
| Audio Recorder | |
| Recording Format | PCM |
| Arpegiator/ Portamento | |
| Arpegiator | |
| Portamento | |
| MIDI | |
| General MIDI (GM) | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| THRU | |
| Keys | |
| Type | Synth Action |
| Velocity Sensitivity | |
| Size | 5 |
| Number of Keys | 61 |
| Display | |
| Display type | TFT |
| Color resolution | Monochrome |
| Built-in controllers | |
| Pitch Bend Wheel | |
| Modulation Wheel | |
| Audio out | |
| Stereo | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 2 |
| Audio in | |
| Analog 1/4" | 1 |
| Power | |
| Voltage | 100-230(250)V |
| Voltage | 50-60Hz |
| Power Supply | Built-in, internal |
| Case/ body | |
| Plastic | |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 1985 |
| Production end | 1987 |
| Production ended | |