The Mellotron Group

Hi Andy,

The programming came pretty naturally to me. Having grown up with Mini Moogs the signal flow was similar.
I really miss all of those realtime knobs.  You could work them like drawbars on a Hammond, adjusting them as you play.
When the DX7 came out I really hated the parameter programming method it used.  Most people just used the presets.
I think the P5 is to polyphonics what the Mini Moog was to monophonics and it was modeled after the Moog.  It was my
favorite poly analogue.  As I told Paul, I don't remember a lot about the Rev.2 other than it was an attempt to improve reliability.
Finally the Rev. 3 achieved the reliability required to stand up on the road but lost some of the sound quality due to the change
in ICs on which it was based.

Cheers,

Gary


From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Thompson
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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Astra plays the Novatron



----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Brumm<mailto:gabru@comsec.net>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:04 AM
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Astra plays the Novatron

My first Prophet 5 came from Eddie Jobson.  It was a Rev. 1 & Black.
If this was the Sequential Circuits forum I bet somebody would be impressed ... or at least give a $hit :)

Hey, Gary - I'm impressed! Have a just refurb'd Rev 2.2 - lovely synth, but harder to programme than I'd expected, given that I know analogues pretty well...
Andy T.