If you’ve ever thought about exactly what you’d want in your dream synth, rest assured: synthesizer design guru Dave Smith is one step ahead of you. It’s called the Sequential Prophet X, and it’s a bi-timbral, 8-voice stereo (16-voice mono) beast that combines everything you love about analog synthesis with the endless power of digital processing. At the core of the Prophet X is a powerful sound engine driving dual sample-based instruments and a pair of high-resolution digital oscillators with waveshape modulation, all routed through scrumptious-sounding stereo analog filters.

As for the samples themselves, Prophet X does it right. This 150GB sample library (created by 8Dio) comes packed with acoustic and electronic instruments, along with boatloads of cinematic and ambient effects. And that’s just the beginning. Beyond the four envelope generators, four LFOs, and deep modulation matrix, you have loop manipulation, sample stretching, and other powerful tools to sculpt your samples. Top it off with a premium 5-octave aftertouch-enabled keyboard, onboard storage, dual effects engines, a polyphonic step sequencer, and more; and you have the Sequential Prophet X: a beastly synthesizer eminently worthy of carrying the legendary Prophet lineage forward.