Dave Smith Instruments has announced that their Prophet '08 Synthesizer Module is now shipping.

Designed to parrot the sounds of its predecessors, we're told that the Prophet '08 adds in a handful of new features. It has an expanded modulation matrix and more modulation sources: three envelopes and four LFOs per voice.

It's also packed with a gated 16x4 step sequencer, an arpeggiator, split or stacked key modes with separate stereo outputs per layer and rack ears.

Still more features:

• The only affordable, full-featured polysynth with a 100% analog signal path
  
• Classic, real analog sound—including legendary Curtis analog low-pass filters—married to a modern feature set
  
• Small footprint, huge sound
  
• Tons of knobs for direct, real-time editing and performance
  
• Used as an expander, increases polyphony of another Prophet '08 to 16 voices