Prophet-5 V - General Questions

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The Prophet-5 V polyphonic mode is a reassign.
As an example, here poly is set on 5 voices, if you play 5 notes, each of them is assigned to a number:

This voice allocation number is kept until a sixt note is played.
This new note becomes the 1st voice position:

Voice dispersion introduces subtle to strong inconsistencies between the voice parameters.

This reproduces the behaviors caused by analog components’ tolerance drifting and aging.

The Voice dispersion section is located above the center of the virtual keyboard.


There are 3 factory variations which correspond to a subtle, fair and strong amount of voice dispersion (buttons 1, 2 and 3), but you can also select the Custom button which lets you define the voice dispersion manually from the trimmers on the right of the section.


Each trimmer defines the amount of voice dispersion brought to the given parameter:

Trimmer	Applies dispersion to the...
PITCH	Pitch of the oscillators
PW	Pulsewidth of the oscillators
CUTOFF	Filter cutoff
RESO	Filter resonance
ENV	Envelope parameters
MOD	Voice modulation amounts

The modwheel of the Prophet-5 V is by design assigned to the LFO.
Use it to control the amount of the LFO.

You can shape your LFO from the dedicated section:

Then, assign your LFO to the destination of your choice:

To use the Prophet-5 V Oscillator 2 as an LFO, simply follow these steps:

• Disable KBD
• Enable LO FREQ
• Assign to POLY - MOD settings of your choice
• Play with OSC 2 source amount