With the recent announcement that Dave Smith, the man behind Sequential Circuits, has reacquired the Sequential name, we're reminded of the company's contributions to music technology. Perhaps their ...

8. Prophet VS - 1986 Continuing the adoption of the Prophet branding, the VS was a unique and another ingenious design from the Sequential stable.

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 ...

Dave Smith, Synth Pioneer and ‘Father of MIDI,’ Dies at 72 With his Sequential company, Smith also introduced the Prophet-5 synth, an industry standard-setter in the '80s.

Smith founded Sequential Circuits in 1974, and went on to design and release the first ever programmable polyphonic synth – the Prophet-5 – in 1977. A number of other influential synths followed ...

Born in 1950 in San Francisco, Smith founded Sequential Circuits in 1974, and in 1977 debuted the now legendary Prophet-5, which was the world’s first fully-programmable polyphonic synth, and ...

The Prophet-5, the world's first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer that used a microprocessor, was released in 1978 and cemented Sequential Circuits as a revered brand for musicians.

However, Behringer wants to make it clear that its ongoing mission to emulate and enhance the classic Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 has been no bed of technical roses.

Futurism doesn't mean shit, if you can't also jack into the past. Critic Philip Sherburne discusses the return of the ARP Odyssey, Sequential Circuits' Prophet and Oberheim's reissue of the Two ...

The synthesizer company Sequential, headquartered in San Francisco's North Beach, has hosted visiting rock star royalty like LCD Soundsystem and the Killers.

With the recent announcement that Dave Smith, the man behind Sequential Circuits, has reacquired the Sequential name, we're reminded of the company's contributions to music technology. Perhaps their ...