> I am trying to nail the synth part to Steve Winwood's 'Valerie" and
> would like to see how it sounds on the Polysix. I'm currently playing
> the part on my Roland JX8P which is almost damn near perfect after a
> lot of tweaking. The thing is, I know he played the part on a Prophet
> 5, and while I'd love to have a Prophet 5 right now it's not really an
> option. Being that the Polysix has only one oscillator, and my Roland
> has 2 DCO's, I'm able to get a much phatter sound out of the Roland,
> but is there any way to fatten the Polysix to get a strong Van halen-
> like "Jump" brass? I know the sound is achievable on a Prophet. And
> I do know I'm talking about two totally different animals right now
> but I'm sure there's gotta be some way into tricking the Polysix to
> make such a sound, right?
You can make a convincing "Jump" brass on the PolySix. There are many Prophet-
5 sounds that can be recreated on the PolySix. The PolySix has filters that
are similar - although not entirely identical - to the Prohpet-5, which is a
great advantage. Some of the P6 border-of-resonance sounds are similar to P5
sounds.
But that said, there is a whole category of sounds which are totally out of
reach on the P6. The sounds made on the P5 using cross-mod and sync cannot be
made on the P6. For these the JX8-P and JX-10 get closer, but then the
filters are all wrong. You can run the P6 LFOs very fast, and obtain a few
sounds that share some characteristics with cross-mod, but that's about it.
There is a reason the Prophet-5 is a legend.
/Frank