So, I’m clocking in around 20 months being a full-on synth enthusiasts/owner/player and my first synth was this Prophet-600.
I had really gone down the synth rabbit hole months before purchasing it and when it was time for my first synth, this Prophet really clicked a lot of boxes I had for the synth I wanted. The first box it clicked was it was a “Prophet,” the second box was it was analog and the third box was that it was vintage.
I was fortunate to acquire one that was in very great condition. I then pimped it out with some Prophet-5 knobs and nameplates on the front. But the most important part was this thing sounded so incredible when I first played it, such a raw tone - like it really feels like vintage circuits have a distinct behavior with how they sound.
This all took place at the end 2021, flash forward to today and Behringer now has a clone of it out, much to my surprise. I think initially I felt like I would be losing a unique sound in my setup with there being a flood of the clone version out there. And it was really funny/ironic that Behringer ended cloning my first synth. But I do have two Behringers myself and they’re very nice, simple and plain. I really do appreciate my RD-9, and that doesn’t diminish or take away anything from someone with a TR-909.
I’ll never sell my 600, because as my first synth, it pretty much means everything to me. However, I am happy to now have a variety of other synths, so I don’t have to base my whole identity around the 600, kind of identifying a lot with the Syntakt these days lol
