Sam Ash has updated its inventory and is now offering the Sequential Prophet-5 Synthesizer as part of its collection of ...

Dave Smith, a giant of the synthesizer industry who built the Prophet-5 and was bestowed the title “Father of MIDI,” died Wednesday (June 1). He was 72. Smith founded synth company Sequential Circuits ...

Dave Smith — the American engineer and musician known best as the founder of synthesizer company Sequential — has died. Smith's passing was announced by Sequential yesterday (June 1), though a cause ...

This week on MusicRadar, we're stacking up hardware synths against their software counterparts as part of the Great Synth Showdown. In our first round, we pit the mighty Prophet-5 against Arturia's ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

Relive the groundbreaking sounds of Dave Smith’s awesome early synth in this emulation workshop When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

American synthesizer company Sequential Circuits recently announced a brand new compact desktop version of their iconic Prophet-5 synthesizer. The Prophet-5 was the first programmable polyphonic synth ...

In the late ‘60s, music technology was expensive, unwieldy and mostly out of reach. Synths were the size of refrigerators and access was limited to well-funded studios and successful artists. But, all ...