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Regarding DSI Prophet 12- From another forum, reported by a guy who visited the DSI booth at NAMM:
"The oscillators are virtual, produced by a total of six SHARC chips. Output is then converted to analog to go to filters and VCAs. The chips also handle effects."
It was firther discussed that those SHARC chips are the EXACT mega proccessor chips used in the "Solaris". Not exactly surprising since during the Sequential Circuits days then at end, only "Sequential", Dave Smith along with Don Solaris and others from Sequential Team worked with Korg to make the Wavestation. The "Solaris" seems to be a built-to-order, non-mass-production synth that once I find more info on it will confirm that it seems to have some "DAW Integration Qualities". In any case, those SHARC Chips DSI is using in Prophet 12 give massive DSP power to where no real bottleneck for future added features.
ALSO, we were speculating on infekted if like on the Prophet VS, if it were possible to control in a vector way the wavetable in which in the VS and similarly in Wavestation Series, you have FOUR directional waveforms to be able to blend, etc.
The DSI Prophet apparently allows THREE wavetables to be blended,(see *****below), interestingly, and can be found in more detailed specs listed below:
* 12 voices
* 4 Oscillators per voice capable of classic and complex waveforms
- Low alias digital oscillators of several flavors: tri, saw, pulse, sine, noise and 4 wavetable based sources
- Oscillator params: FM, AM, Sync, Level, Pitch (Coarse+Fine), extended slop algorithm, shape, shape mod/pulsewidth
* Sub oscillator
* Shape Mod/Pulsewidth control changes based on oscillator type:
- Pulse and Tri - Pulsewidth control
- Saw - Supersaw effect (note: not complete in NAMM units)
- Noise - Pink on the left, White in the middle, Blue/Violet on the right
- *****Wavetables - Blends between 3 different waveforms, one on the left, one in the middle, one on the righ*****t
* Post FX section, fully analog signal path (no DAC/ADC converstion) with digital effects summed with analog signal at wet/dry points
- Analog VCA and panning
- Analog stereo distortion
- Analog resonant Lowpass filter per voice
- Analog resonant Highpass filter per voice
- All analog parameters are modulated at >11kHz sample rate
* Digital FX 'Character' Section:
- NOTE: Effects are not finalized (besides Drive) and will be improved and possible changed before release
- Air - High shelf with soft clipping
- Girth - Low shelf with saturation
- Hack - Bit Crush
- Decimate - Sample Rate Reduction
- Drive - Overdrive/Saturation
* Tons of modulation:
- 4 LFOs up to 4kHz rate, sync and multiple shapes
- 4 Envelopes - VCA, Filter and 2 Auxiliary. ADSR plus delay
- 16 Mod slots - Oscillators can be used as sources for FM control of a wide range of params
* Two Pressure- and Position-sensitive touch faders for added control in addition to the pitch and mod wheels
* 4 Delay lines
- Can sync to internal arp clock or to external MIDI clock
- ~1 second buffer for each delay line
- Amount, Feedback, and Rate controls on front panel
- Delay time ranges from reverb and flanger effects to a looper with feedback turned to max
- Delay algorithms not finalized in NAMM units and will be improved by release
* Tuned Feedback
* Expanded Arpeggiator modes
* Quick mod section:
- example: holding 'mod source' and hitting 'Osc 1' creates a new mod with 'Osc 1' as the source and brings up the screen. Then holding 'mod destination' and moving the 'Air' encoder assigns the destination to 'Air'. Simple!
- Sorting of mods by slot number, mod source or mod destination which includes the fixed mods (destination params for LFOs and Envelopes) to quickly deconstruct programs. Makes it very easy to see what mods are affecting what parameters at a glance
* Playlist mode for queueing up programs to use in a set for quick 1-button access to quickly load presets. 4 Playlists with 10 presets plus an extended playlist mode if more complicated setups are needed.

I am hoping that 'Doc' Trippler does some demoing of this beast as he always uses extreme modulations to really show what any given synth is capable of beyond your not always all that great YouTube demos.