Dave Smith Instruments to ship new Prophet '08 next week

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:55 pm

To be announced next week apparently, keep an eye on http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/index.html

8 note poly analog synth in the $2K price range.

Thanks to Music Thing and Matrix Synth :

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/08/ ... -dave.html
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/08 ... smith.html

Peter Schwartz (a.k.a Ski) who voiced the AL-1 on the Oasys was apparently involved with this too.

Daz.

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:11 pm

More info -> http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/search/label/DSI

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:24 pm

A bunch of direct mp3 links :

http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8k.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8l.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8a.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8b.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8c.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8d.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8e.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8f.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8g.mp3
http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8i.mp3

Daz.

sewa · Post by **sewa** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:30 pm

This is very interesting news. Stefan Tripler's demo sounds great...

sewa · Post by **sewa** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:37 pm

Listening to more...I mean those demos are REALLY good

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:33 am

Sounds great doesn't it

Here's the official announcement !

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/other/prophet08.htm

sewa · Post by **sewa** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:12 am

"Following hot on its heels will be the Prophet '08 Special Edition, each of which will be hand-signed by Dave and which will feature lighted wheels (RED!) and exotic leopardwood end panels."

leopardwood end panels LOL...

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:52 pm

Sounds great !!!!!!
Sweet !!!!!!

Regards.
Sharp.

DimensionFour · Post by **DimensionFour** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:34 pm

sewa wrote:"Following hot on its heels will be the Prophet '08 Special Edition, each of which will be hand-signed by Dave and which will feature lighted wheels (RED!) and exotic leopardwood end panels."

leopardwood end panels LOL...

With a decent tube my NL2X does most of it.
they are just trying to get $$ from the VSTi hype.
Not worth that kind of $$ in my opinion.

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:25 am

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/pro ... /index.php

futureline · Post by **futureline** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:33 am

This is so coool!!

Not to mention, that the rumours about the price was correct...fantastic!!

I love my PER, think its fantastic, and I can't imagine this being any different when it comes to quality and sound.

This could actually be a BIG big hit, for DSI....

futureline · Post by **futureline** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:39 pm

Well..that's how long I was in paradise...
The price here in Norway (by the distributor) is (hold on!) 3700 us$.
The solution will be to import it on my own, or wait....

Synthoid · Post by **Synthoid** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:14 pm

I assume this synth is a hybrid of some sort, not 100% analog......not for less than $2000, anyway.

After all, look at the price of the Andromeda and PEK.

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:53 pm

Apparently not, check out the DSI text :

It is an eight-voice synthesizer with a 100% analog audio signal path.

... I guess the somewhat simpler voice path meant DS could get away with this lower price mark.

futureline · Post by **futureline** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:03 pm

Well, the distributor of DSI in Norway IS expencive, the PEK costs almost 4800 us...2000 more than in the Us, but still the difference between the two are more than a thousand dollars.
If I import the Prophet '08, the price will end up on something like 2600 dollars with the taxes (as far as I know).

Anyway, I wouldn't choose the '08 over PEK or the Andy, to that they seem way too different.
As a comparison, I bought the Radias (with Keyboard) for about 1800 US, so when you compare that to the listprices, the DSI products seem way too expencive here..

Thank God we have the internet...