“The Prophet-6 is my most used synth. It’s just got a nice balance of not trying to do too much, but doing enough to be flexible. The parameter space it covers is high proportion beautiful. Any synth, you’ve got a bunch of parameters with continuous values. If you’ve got 50 parameters, you’ve got a 50 dimensional space, basically. That contains all the sounds a synth can make, all the types of timbre.
“I think, for me, the Prophet-6 has got the largest proportion of beautiful parameter space. There are synths that can do just as beautiful things – and a lot more – but maybe there are parts of that parameter space that I don’t really like the sound of and I have to tune them more carefully. The Prophet-6 is just this lovely, crafted thing that has a lot of beauty in it.
“That’s what I’m looking for with a lot of this stuff. ‘How can I set up a system that has a life of its own?’ I can play it and I can still play my chords and express what I want harmonically, because that’s where this emotion is, but then it takes on a life of its own and wanders around in these weird ways. I’m always looking for a system that’s partly generative and that’s partly performative.”
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