Dave Smith Instruments Sequential PROPHET X, User Manual

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9 Prophet X User’s Guide Chapter 1: Getting Started
Comparing Before You Save
Before saving a program to a new location, it’s a good idea to listen to the
program in the target location to make sure you really want to overwrite it.
To evaluate a program before you overwrite it:
1. Get ready to save by pressing the
save
/
load
button. It starts flashing.
2. Press the
compare
button. Its LED lights up.
3. Use the
bank
and
program
knobs to navigate to the sound you want to
compare and play the keyboard to hear the sound.
4. To disable the compare function and go back to the edited sound, press
the
compare
button again to turn it off. (Programs can’t be written
while in compare mode.)
5. If you want to save the edited sound, the
save
/
load
button is still
flashing and ready to save, so navigate to a location with the
bank
and
program
knobs and press
save
/
load
. The sound is saved.
6. Alternatively, if you want to cancel saving and continue editing, press
the
global
button. Saving is canceled.
Working with Stacked or Split Programs
The Prophet X is bi-timbral, meaning that it can produce two different
sounds/programs at the same time, either by stacking them, or by
allowing you to split the keyboard and assign one sound to the upper
section of the keyboard and a different sound to the lower section of the
keyboard.
The two layers are referred to as Layer A and Layer B. By default, Layer
A is always active when you recall a program. If either the
split
button
or the
stack
button is lit, then Layer B is also active. Each Layer can
have different Effects, Unison, Arpeggiator, and Sequencer settings. This
allows for some very interesting combinations of sounds.
As you scroll through various factory programs, you can tell which are
stacked and which are split. On stacked sounds, the
stack
button is lit.
On split sounds, the
split
button is lit.