The Six-Trak has 100 memories but no way of dumping them onto tape. The buttons are small, square, grey pads of rubber which only need to be tapped lightly to trigger.
Beyond them, a further ten buttons call up the programs and the parameters. Immediately to the right is an LED display and a set of control buttons for programming. The parameters are listed in the centre of the front panel. This is not a Prophet 5, nor even a Prophet 600. There's an element of truth in that, but there are certainly times when the Six-Trak's programs lack weight. Sequential would doubtless reply that their VCOs are fat enough naturally without the need for artificial aural expansion. You won't locate any form of cross modulation, nor is there the poly-mod that made the Prophet 5 so well known for its smoothly modulated string sounds.Īnd there's only one oscillator which is the single backwards step, since most Korg and Rolands have two these days, enabling you to produce growling synced sounds and helping to thicken the sound. All the usual basic control options are here. The various sections of the synth are split into parameters - 32 in all, including ADSR times for the filter and VCA envelope generators, waveform selection for the oscillators, and so on. To conserve on cash, Sequential have swapped to the incrementing system of programming. they're all here, but to a degree of finesse and control that has never been witnessed at this price. Programmability, MIDI, in-built polyphonic sequencing.
The Six-Trak tempts me to go along with Mr Bowen, mainly because this synth is based on the same technology as preceding, under-a-grand, rival polyphonics - but does five times as much with it. Strangely enough, on a nearby page, Roland president Mr Kakehashi is heard to counter that we only use about 20 per cent of the capacity of analogue chips.
John Bowen's explanation of the Six-Trak is that, barring a few fine adjustments or a dramatic advance in IC design, they've taken the analogue synthesiser chip about as far as it can go.
Sequential circuits six trak for sale cracked#
Yes, the boys who brought you the Prophet 5 and the Prophet T8 have finally cracked the £1,000 barrier with Six-Trak. Somewhere in the middle of this month's One Two, there's a brief interview with John Bowen, the man at Sequential Circuits largely responsible for this, their latest and cheapest polyphonic synth.
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