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Prophet V history - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Learning the Arturia Collection
Prophet V history
- [Instructor] Let's start by talking about Sequential Circuits. In 1978, Sequential Circuits consisted of Dave Smith, former Moog clinician, John Bowen, and business consultant, Barb Fairhurst. They were initially self funded and started out in the confines of Dave Smith's San Jose, California garage selling a digital sequencer and a generic synth programmer. It was that year, at the Winter NAM convention, that they introduced the Prophet-5 synthesizer. The Prophet-5 got a lot of recognition at the show because it was the first commercially available and viable polyphonic synthesizer. A comparison was quickly made to the Minimoog and that probably came about from its physical appearance than it did from its structure, which was closer to that of ARP's. Over the next five or six years, Sequential Circuits, who eventually shortened their name to just Sequential, would become the largest American manufacturer of synthesizers. The Prophet-5 contained five individual voices. For its…
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