Getting around
- tap HOME
- Stage: all tracks with their sounds, patterns and levels.
- tap HOME+tap HOME
- Second HOME page: chord wheel of what you play.
- turn ALGORITHM
- Pick track 1-4, on every page.
- turn SELECT
- Turn the pages of the open section; on HOME: tempo.
- tap OCT+
- Off HOME: OCT+ enters or confirms, OCT- goes back.
- hold HOME
- Menu: colours, lights, autosave, USB audio and more.
- hold EDIT
- Undo the last load, capture or edit; hold again for more.
Playing
- turn PRESETS
- Change the selected track's sound.
- turn KNOB 1
- On HOME: the sound's 4 main knobs (Prophet: cutoff, reso, env, release).
- tap OCT-
- On HOME: octave down (OCT+ up); both together: back to 0.
- tap ARP+turn KNOB 1
- Arpeggiator mode; OFF switches it off.
- tap SEL+tap SEL+turn KNOB 1
- Chord keys: one finger plays a chord in the key.
- tap SEL+tap SEL+turn KNOB 3
- STRUM: spread each chord over a beat division.
- hold SEL+white key 1-16
- The key's note becomes the root (KNOB 2 picks the scale).
- hold GLO+black key 1-4
- Mute track 1-4 (white key 1-4: solo while held).
- hold GLO+turn KNOB 1
- Track 1 level (KNOB 2-4: tracks 2-4).
Sound
- tap EDIT
- All the engine's sound pages; EDIT again: map of sections.
- tap ENV
- Envelope pages (Prophet: filter, then amp); tap for next.
- tap LFO
- LFO and modulation pages; tap for next.
- hold LFO+turn KNOB 1
- Temporary tweak, undone when LFO is let go (OCT+ keeps it).
- hold OCT+
- On HOME: Init sound, Favourite, Sound designer, add/remove track.
- tap GLO
- MIXER: KNOB 1 level, KNOB 2 pan of the selected track.
Sequencer / patterns
- tap PLAY
- Start / stop all tracks.
- tap REC
- Arm the track; playing, it records from its next loop.
- hold REC+tap PLAY
- Arm and start recording in one go.
- hold REC
- Capture: put what you just played into the pattern.
- tap SEQ
- NOTES piano roll; tap again for PATTERN, TEMPO and more.
- hold SEQ+white key 1-8
- Go to pattern 1-8 (an empty one arms REC).
- hold SEQ+black key 1-4
- Select track 1-4.
- hold SEQ
- PATTERNS: all tracks' 8 patterns; KNOB 1-4 pick them.
- hold GLO+white key 8
- Tap tempo (F4).
Effects
- tap FX
- The track's 3 insert slots plus SHARED; KNOB 2 picks the row.
- tap FX+turn KNOB 1
- Row's effect: Phaser, Width, Formant, Tape, Spit, Echo, Room, Reverb, Chorus.
- tap FX+turn KNOB 4
- Amount of the row's effect.
- tap FX+tap OCT+
- Open the slot: MIX, RATE, character, TONE.
Saving & loading
- hold SAVE
- Save the project to its slot (new: pick a slot).
- tap SAVE+turn KNOB 1+OCT+ twice
- Save the sound to a USER slot; name it, OCT+ writes.
- tap SAVE+tap SAVE
- PROJECT: projects A-D, the template, the power-on project.
Settings
- hold HOME+turn KNOB 2
- Menu: KNOB 2 picks the row, KNOB 1 its value.
- tap GLO+tap GLO+turn KNOB 3
- Clock source: INT, USB or TRS MIDI.
- tap GLO+tap GLO+turn KNOB 1
- Concert pitch A4, 400-480 Hz (KNOB 4: fine TUNE).
- tap GLO+tap GLO+tap GLO+turn KNOB 3
- ROUT: MIDI channels 1-4 play tracks 1-4; SEL: selected track.
Good to know
- Power-on gives four tracks: IT'S A PROPHET 5, FM6 SOLID BASS, CZ-1 SYNTH.LEAD 1 and the 808 kit.
- Projects save themselves after 5 s stopped and untouched once they have a slot; turn AUTOSAVE off in the HOME-held menu.
- Tap GLO or SEL slowly for the next page: two quick taps lock its quick layer open (tap it again to close).
- SEQ > TEMPO holds BPM, swing and QNT: OFF keeps your played timing, a division quantizes the new take.
- Jam to song: switch patterns while playing, then on SEQ > SONG hold REC to turn the jam into the song.
- Holding OCT- and OCT+ for 5 s while running enters update mode; let go during the countdown to cancel.
- Something wrong after an update? Hold OCT- alone while switching on: three key flashes, then reinstall from the web installer.
A community cheat sheet by the hub, not by the firmware's makers: when in doubt, their manual is right.