I have to admit I've been a little dubious about Dave Smith Instruments' Prophet '08 synth- I own a rev 3.2 Prophet-5, so I'm a bit of a purist snob. One of the major things that bugged me about the Prophet '08 were the endless rotary knobs (the original Prophet has standard pots). Call me an old curmudgeon, but there's something about having a definitive start and end point when tweaking filters, mod, etc. Of course the advantage of endless rotaries is that they don't have to "jump" to a point when editing sounds- the idea is that you won't lose the setting of a particular parameter. But in my world, if you can't figure out where ONE knob setting was to get back to the original preset, then you probably shouldn't be dabbling in this wacky synth programming stuff in the first place. Prophet '08 Pot Edition ships 5/20/09. At 4:20. Check it out HERE.

The deal is, well, was this: buy a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 and get a free ATA-style case. Officially, the deal is over, but being the shrewd types we are, we ordered more at the eleventh hour, so if ya act all bunny-quick like, you still get the free case. Yes, audioMIDI.com is always thinking of you.