User guide
PROPHET’08 SoundEditor 
User Guide 
Prophet ’08 SoundEditor User Guide © Dave Smith Instruments 2007 
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3.  OVERVIEW 
This User Guide will walk you through the steps to setup the SoundEditor with your 
Prophet ’08 instrument. The STARTING UP and GETTING CONNECTED sections 
should be followed first to get the hardware properly connected and running with the 
SoundEditor software. From there you can freely explore SoundEditor, edit and 
audition sounds, create new ones and have some fun! 
The Prophet ’08 is a deep and complex instrument with many programming options. 
With this in mind, SoundEditor has been designed to be as simple and easy to use as 
possible while retaining all of the functional control needed to adjust every single 
Prophet ’08 parameter. 
4.  STARTING UP 
After installing Prophet ’08 and launching the application for the first time by double 
clicking on the program icon: 
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You will initially be shown a splash screen with version number and the name of 
registered owner. In the image shown below this is version 1.1.2 and the program is 
currently an unregistered copy: 










