Japanese musical instrument development team Piko Piko Factory recently announced plans to open source Profree-4, a hardware clone of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer.
Profree-4, originally called ‘Prophet-Mini’, is a new mini-synth design based on the classic Prophet-5 rev 3.2. The developers say that they are essentially cloning the analog voice of the original, but creating a keyboard hardware design and microcomputer controller.
The developers shared video of their initial Profree audio test over the weekend:
The project is currently in development. You can follow development via the Piko Piko F Patreon or Twitter.
If any readers have additional information on the project, share it in the comments!
via Andreas
more choices!!!!
Woohoo
What is it with Japanese synth makers and mini-keys?
Tiny hands
whats americans problem with mini-keys
I dig mini keys, if only Steinway would follow suit 🙂
it’s like they asking “them” come and clone me
“clone my clone but i did most of the job for you”
Imagine the uproar if Behringer did the same.
People would be amazed that Behringer gave something back to the open source community for the first time, vs just taking from it.
well said!