Denver Synth Labs · Digital vector synthesizer · After the Prophet VS (1986)

VICTORY IS YOURS!

A modern digital vector synthesizer.

It’s not a wavetable synthesizer!!!Four digital oscillators, a joystick, and an analog heart.

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The Sequential Prophet VS was a masterpiece in 1986: four digital oscillators you mix between in real time with a joystick, all running through analog filters. It was digital, with an analog heart. VICTORY is the ultimate evolution of vector synthesis, and it starts with the entire catalogue of Prophet VS sounds, ready to play as they are and edit to your heart’s delight.

VICTORY Prophet VS vector synthesizer VST3 plugin interface — VICTORY’s OSC + VECTOR page: four oscillators, the joystick, and the mix envelope.

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1A four-oscillator ultimate vector synthesizer.

Prophet VS joystick, balance and master volume close-up — Our own Prophet VS: the reference VICTORY was fitted and tested against.

The oscillators come straight from the ROM (the original 12-bit waveforms, played back as the same 128-step DAC staircase, grit and all), and you can edit them and draw your own. Modelled down to the op-amp that sums the oscillators into the filter, the CEM3389 filter, and the part tolerances between voices. The cutoff law, resonance curve, key tracking, release rates and velocity response were fitted to recordings of our own Prophet VS, and the sound is tested against it to within 1 dB at all ranges, with cutoff within 0.06 octave of the hardware. Even skeptics can compare it side by side

25,200 Prophet VS sounds.

Original Sequential Prophet VS brochure, what is vector synthesis — From Sequential’s 1986 brochure: “What is Vector Synthesis?”

Every factory sound plus every ROM bank we could find, and 100 new sounds by MANMADEMADMAN. Every one of the 5,200 programs loads and re-saves with exactly the same values, including the 99-versus-127 value scaling that trips up most importers. Import your own Prophet VS sysex banks, and use the variable EZ button for millions more

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3Improvements the original never had.

VICTORY filter and amp page: VS CEM3389 and Polivoks filters, LFOs and ENVE envelopes — FILTER + AMP: the VS CEM3389 with a Polivoks LP in series, analog drive, saturation and drawable envelopes.

Multiple analog filters from classic synths (VS CEM3389 and CEM3379, ladder, Oberheim, MS-20, Polivoks op-amp state-variable, diode and more) with analog drive on the summing op-amp, easy-to-edit envelopes with exponential shapes, and ENVE Acoustic envelopes adapted from our ENVE and DECAY products for more realistic sounds

“Even sequence the joystick.”

4Sequence everything.

A snapshot sequencer to gently or radically play sounds at steps, a gate sequencer to play along with in a gated pattern, and an arpeggiator to jam out with. Even sequence the joystick

5A visual modulation matrix.

See what goes where

6A greatly enhanced effects section.

Drive and distortions, modulation (phaser and flanger), delays (digital and BBD) and multiple reverbs

7Patch morph and wave sequencing.

VICTORY patch morph page: four programs on A B C D with the MANMADEMADMAN bank — PATCH MORPH: four programs on A, B, C and D, with the MANMADEMADMAN bank in the searchable list.

Morph between up to four complete patches in real time, like having four VS’s to joystick between. Wave sequencing rotates each oscillator through up to eight waves while you play, so every keypress makes a new sound. And the joystick stays where you leave it

8The sound behind Pretty Hate Machine.

Original Sequential Prophet VS advertisement — From the original Sequential advertisement: “A New Prophet.”

The Prophet VS is one of the synths Trent Reznor used on Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut, and the digital-oscillators-into-analog-filter sound is a big part of that record’s cold, glassy edge. VICTORY puts that sound, and all 5,200 of its programs, in your DAW. (Not affiliated with or endorsed by Nine Inch Nails or Sequential—yet!!)

SPECSThe engineering, in numbers

Voices8-voice polyphony, 4 digital oscillators per voice, unison and mono modes (8 divided by the unison voice count)

Waveforms32 user waves plus the ROM waves, 12-bit, 128 points each (harmonics 1 to 63), played back as the VS’s 128-step DAC staircase, band-limited per octave

FiltersVS CEM3389 and CEM3379, ladder, Oberheim 12 dB, MS-20, Polivoks, diode, notch and more, two filters in series or parallel

Fitted to hardwareCutoff law within 0.06 octave of a real VS from 20 to 70 on the dial; resonance curve (+10 dB at 20, +22 dB at 40, self-oscillation from about 55); key tracking, release and velocity laws

Programs151 parameters in the VS’s own 164-nibble layout; all 5,200 library programs decode and re-encode with identical values; 0 bad, 0 NaN

MIDIProphet VS NRPN in and out, program, bank and wave-bank sysex in and out, program change, MIDI clock

PerformanceAbout 9.5% of one core with 8 voices, chorus and all effects at 48 kHz in our benchmark

FormatsVST3, AU and Standalone

Sequential Prophet VS digital vector synthesizer — The reference: our own Sequential Prophet VS, the unit VICTORY was modeled on and tested against.

The VS was released during the heyday of the Yamaha DX7, and it was Sequential’s final synthesizer. Wherever your cold synth heart is, in 1986 or somewhere in the future, you’ll find something in VICTORY to claim as your own as you vector in your sound.

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Not affiliated with or endorsed by Nine Inch Nails or Sequential—yet!!