User guide

PROPHET’08 SoundEditor
User Guide
Prophet ’08 SoundEditor User Guide © Dave Smith Instruments 2007
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Any pair of programs can be used for the genetics functions (one program each from
mother and father). The result of applying the user-selected genetics functions creates
a child bank of 128 new programs, and any ‘keepers’ auditioned from the child bank
can then be moved into the Top Offspring bank.
The four Program Genetics functions are selected by using the buttons at the top of
the window. Here’s what the four functions do:
• Mix button: The parameters of each child program are randomly chosen using
parameters from either the mother or father source. For example, if the
mother’s cutoff frequency was 10 and the father’s was 88, the child’s value
would either be 10 or 88.
• Morph button: The value of each parameter is linearly interpolated from one
parent to the other. The first child is identical to the mother; the last child is
identical to the father. All others are weighted towards each parent depending