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Prophet 2000 mods or enhancements?

2004-01-06 by j.g.

Whats up, I just bought a used Prophet 2000 a couple days ago.

I used to own a Prophet 2002 rack sampler & currently own a Studio 
440 as well.

I am just getting familiar with it & getting to know it...
So far I REALLY LIKE IT.
I am very happy with this beast, it sounds great, I love the lo-fi, 
old school sounds, filtering, arpreggiator, etc...
This thing kicks ass (so did the price, even though mine was beat to 
hell).

I am gonna be rebuilding mine, it's a little beat up.
Since that will require some disassembly, I figured this would be a 
could time to perform any modifications/enhancements - if any exist.

So, are there any worthwhile P2K Mods or enhancements that anyone 
knows about?

To start, I was gonna see about replacing some of the LED's with Blue 
LED's, at least the ones on far right (to match the blue keyads).
Maybe have the top shell refinished (custom) as well, hmmm... but 
then gotta figure out how to get the Sequential logo silkscreened 
back on.

So yeah anyhow, was just curious.

I bought mine to use it as a Midi-Controller (for my Paia Fatman) and 
to be my 12bit sample grit'ifier, I also have an MPC 3000 & SP1200.
MPC is my main machine, but I like to ocassionaly wash my samples 
thru a 12 bit machine to toughen them up, I really liked the sound of 
my Studio 440 (moreso than the SP1200) but using the 440 is sometimes 
a pain & it's a finnicky box, I kind of want to leave it alone & not 
risk shortening it's life.
The rack Prophet 2002 I had was cool, but I just found it hard to 
operate & without a good keyboard controller it was kinda lame.

So far the Prophet 2000 keyboard seems like the perfect blend of 
worlds, great sample engine, ease of use, all kinds of filtering 
goodies & it's tank tough.

Ok, I'll stop here...

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