Worra's Prophet - Retro P5-samples

Sample CD

WORRA'S PROPHET COLLECTION

Worra's Prophet: Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

Some data: 5 voice polyphony - 2 oscillators per voice and a white noise generator. The analog filters, envelope and LFO all sound great and are extremely flexible.

Some of the artists that have used the Prophet-5 include: Kraftwerk, Duran Duran, Vince Clarke, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Gary Numan and New Order.

The Prophet-5 I used for this collection is, I've been told, the very one used to make the music score for John Carpenter's film "The Escape From New York", but I don't know...

A bit about the gig's and the way they were done.

There are 36 gigs on the CD, ranging from ultra-punchy analog basses to spacey pads. Total size of the collection is over 600 megabytes.

editor's note *In the final version of the collection a few Gigs were removed just to get the size small enough to fit on a single CD.

All the samples were recorded digitally directly into the PC. The only thing that has been done to them is that the samples have been normalized to 0.0 dB.

The sounds that have no infinite sustain are full envelope recordings. The sample ends only when the synth note faded on its own. The voices that would sustain indefinitely ARE looped, but the loop point doesn't occur until 10-12 seconds into the sample so in most cases you'll play the unlooped sound.

Each Prophet voice has been sampled in thirds, C, D#, F# and A. The Prophet had no velocity sensitivity, but Gigasampler adds velocity sensitivity by default, which helps make the voice more expressive. However, if you want to be a purist, set the velocity to "linear" in the instrument editor.