The pace at which new electronic musical instruments are being introduced is increasing year by year. So will this reissue of the Prophet 5 be the final and ultimate Prophet synth? As Dave Smith Instruments: the Prophet 08, Prophet 12, Prophet Rev 2 and later on as Sequential: the Prophet 6. Even the founder of Sequential Circuits and original creator of the Prophet synth Dave Smith introduced hardware synths during the last 20 years. Unable to afford a Prophet 5 myself, I bought a Prophet One around 1982, but sold it later on.Įver since the first Prophet synth introduced in the late 70s, a lot of hardware and software emulations of the original Prophet synth have hit the market. Later on, a monophonic Prophet synth was released, the Prophet One. During the years 1978 – 1984 it came in 3 hardware revisions, most notably a switch from SSM2040 (rev 1 and 2) to CEM3320 (rev 3) filter chips. These patches even remained in memory when the instrument was switched off, quite a groundbreaking instrument at that time. ![]() ![]() It was microprocessor-based and had memory slots for storing patches. So will it be the final Prophet synth created by Sequential? The Prophet 5 was one of the first polyphonic synthesizers available in the market around 1978 created by Sequential Circuits.
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