A4 mkii vs Prophet 6 Desktop

[r1n9o]

I agree with a lot of the assessments here, but just as a curveball, be sure to listen to all of the examples in the A4 Warm Pads/Chords thread. Amazing reminder of the power of the A4’s synth engine:

Why can't the A4 do warm pads & chords? [SOLVED]

If you set either low pass to 60 or lower, the body disappears and the level heavily attenuates. I then find myself raising the filter to get enough level but then it’s too bright to be a warm sound. I’ve downloaded countless packs and made hundreds of my own sounds, but the closest I can get is using key tracked resonance on F2 to boost lower mids. But this is unwieldy and still not “warm”. My assessment points to the filters but I remember reading that the osc waveforms aren’t “true” in lowe…