Crap week = crap sounds. PX Delivers. 
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Last one for now.
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Damn! You’ve really mastered this thing already. Had there been demos like this from the beginning, I would have been an early adopter.
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Such a pity they never released a desktop version of it.
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This guy takes a look inside and think concludes it’d be too big, but I’m 100% with you! Desktop with MPE would be insta buy for me to hook up to my osmose.
I’ve been wavering on buying the keyboard version but only want to spend $2200 like other desktop price ranges.
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Yeah I emailed the once long ago and they said something along the lines of a desktop version wasn’t possible… I assume with some circuit board revisions it might be but it doesn’t seem to be in the cards.
A bit sad because I think it is the greatest thing modern sequential has done, but I have no space for it. Ended up with Waldorf M as my hybrid desktop, no regrets there as it is my favorite but the prophet x did really speak to me also.
Could you just buy 8dio sample packs, play and route them in your DAW through a DCO DSI instrument like REV2?
Idk I’m not musically smart enough to envision this or know the difference with PX.
The samples from 8Dio are “deepsampled”, a fancy word for multiple sample layers using velocity mapping for switching 
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The main thing with the PX (for me, I should say) is the vast amount of quality samples, the hybrid architecture together with great modulation capabilities and that gorgeous analog stereo filter. Spatial filtering effects, different to each layer (2 sample layers and 2 Pro-12 style Oscs, double this if you stack A+B programs) is just one of the great things I kinda get back to every time I play it 
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It’s simply a beast
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You sold me take my money 
Thanks for the explanation though. I owned a PX back in 2019 just didn’t give it much attn and sold it for a real nice loss (new 4k, reverb sold 2.7k).
So part of why I can’t buy a new one, looking for a deal around 2.5 or less to make up for my embarrassing loss.
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Ah, I see - you know we’ve all been there with less than perfect deals over the years 
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Hope you can find a nice unit for a great price soon
No effects. (not that it matters)
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I kick on effects like half way through (not that it matters)
Honestly, I’m getting closer and closer to thinking I could live with this as my only poly.
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Great stuff! I’ve been trying to port some Rev2 patches over to the X before selling the Rev2. The only thing so far I really miss are the triangle outputs from the DCOs. Maybe I should just sample them! They have a lot of weight and a little amount of buzz and I haven’t found anything close in the various oscillator downloads for the X. However, I’m coming up with other interesting patches while trying to recreate these, but using sampled oscillators.
I’m also offloading the Prophet 12 which I won’t miss having the X. Are you still enjoying the Prophet 6? The X hasn’t relieved my gas for one.
You could, even though for a keyboardist that’s hardly a realistic vision 
module or keys?
Module.
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Thanks for the kind words.
I know the exact Rev Triangle sound you’re talking about! It was some good stuff.
I love the Prophet 6. I’d miss the immediacy of tone and UI. And the fizz. The PX is still pretty immediate but just the fact that it is so broad in scope makes it not quite the same as an “instrument” so much as a platform for experimentation.
P6, I can turn on and find some unique corners really quickly. I like to think of myself as a power user, and hopefully that doesn’t sound cocky. What I mean is that I make heavy use of the P6 HPF/Drive/FX/Pan Spread. All things unique to it that even a P5/10 can’t touch. I also just like seeing the P6 when I come in the room. It’s a beautiful synth.
As much as I like my PX, I do worry about it withstanding the test of time given some recent motherboard related issues I’ve seen.
I want to post a thing from my P6 because it’s similar to the vibes I just posted from PX, just for discussion. The real source of my dilemma is that both units occupy the same kind of space for me in a poly.
I have a void in my setup for deep, round bass and it’s hard to justify hanging on to two rather large and pricey polys with a lot of overlap. (I’m probably still going to justify it anyways. )
WARNING: NOT A PROPHET X SOUND.
Something from a P6 for comparison/conversation sake.
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“Cloud Crash”
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Really impressive stuff here @philroyjenkins ! Is stuff like this a lot of work to conjure up? Do you find the X lends itself well to this kind of experimental stuff?
The presets seem awful, these are very promising 
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Thanks a bunch buddy.
I think it’s incredibly immediate if you’re going into the synth with the right mindset.
The samples are ok on their own but when you view them as really unique oscillators with a baked in stereo image / vibe, you can get some cool stuff really easily.
A lot of the stuff I stumble across is by building up a patch from some random sample, then just scrolling through different samples until something jumps out at me, then shaping it further.
It’s that kind of controlled randomness that really has me loving lately.
The other thing I’m finding, and this is only a very recent discover, is that this thing sounds good at it’s limits (to my ears). You can drive the shit out of the samples and get a really gnarly grit that works well through the filters.
I’ll add some “Hack / Decimate” to taste occasionally to really degrade the sound but it still ends up sounding like some weird lofi hifi hybrid that I love.
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