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Bug report #1:
In Portamento mode, Fixed Rate mode and Fixed time mode both work fine, in Unison and Normal mode. But FrA and FtA (when Portamento only happen when I play Legato) only work in Unison mode, not in normal mode. I expected FrA and FtA would be possible in both Unison and Normal modes?

Bug report # 2:
Not sure this is a bug or a strange limitation…Anyway, here’s what I noticed: when Arpeggiator is on, when you stack a chord on the keyboard, the arp plays it. When you keep your hand on the keys and hit one key more, the arpeggiator add the new key in the arpeggiator pattern, and it’s fine. But when I use the « hold » function as a latch command for the arpeggiator, playing a chord and adding a new key will not do the same: a new arpeggiator with only the new key will begin. It would be very usefull if, in hold mode, the arpeggiator could behave as when we keep our hands on the keys.

now, let me suggest you some very useful requests for both Prophet 6 and OB6. I know there keyboard are not P12/Pro 2 and are not designed to offer very deep modulation capabilities (I know you want the P6 and OB6 to remain simple to use…), but some feature, only software related, could unleash these wonderful keyboards.

Feature Request #1: There is no possibility, in Aftertouch, XMod and LFO modulation part, to have different modulation amount for different destinations. For example, it is impossible to program a light wha wha effect with a deep vibrato effect: both will be light or deep. I suggest you the following feature: when we keep the destination button pressed (for example: « VCO1 » in LFO destination area), we could display on the main LCD screen a modulation amount, or a modulation offset: for example, while VCO1 is pressed, we could (with bank/tens buttons) lower ou increase the default modulation setting made with Initial Amount. This feature could allow different modulation amount for power users, while beginners will keep the initial design simple and straightforward.

Feature Request #2:
When Unison is on, whatever the number of voices is, you can only play one note at the same time. A « stack » mode, as the Modal 008 has, or the Jupiter 8, would be very useful: it would allow, when polyphony allow it, to split voices between the number of notes triggered on the keyboard. There are 2 possibilities:
- allowing 2 notes tu be played when Unison is adjusted on 3 notes and 3 notes to be played when Unison is adjusted on 2 notes.
- interpreting the number of keys triggered, and playing the number of voices according to the maximum polyphony available.

Feature Request #3:
In the LFO Speed setting, would could add an hidden setting at the very beginning of the potentiometer to allow a « one cycle run » for LFO: the LFO would run 1 cycle before being stopped, this would be helpful to simulate an additional envelope.
Also in the LFO Speed setting, an hidden setting to « Freeze » the LFO speed would allow the modulation wheel to behave as a normal modulation source for all the available destination, with no LFO effect.

Feature Request #4:
The « velocity » switch is very useful, especially for the filter envelope. But when the filter envelope is used as de modulation source in the Xmod, the velocity switch has no effect. It would be great if the Velocity switch could make the enveloppe in Xmod to control, let’s say, the Shape 1 parameter, or the filter mode.

Feature Request #5:
The « Transpose » settings would be much more usable if their setting would be stored in each program, not only in global.

Feature Request #6:
When set to « Low Freq », the oscillator #2 behaves as an additional LFO: great! It would be so good to make it slaved in speed to the tempo (as an option or hidden feature…).