The History of the Prophet Synthesizer

One of the most interesting stories of the synth world is that of Dave Smith and Sequential Circuits. I decided to try to tell some of it via their flagship series, from the Prophet 5 in 1978 to the Prophet X in 2018. With the help of a dozen other people who were incredibly generous and equally excited by their instruments, this film is the result: The History of the Prophet Synthesizer. Massive and heart-felt thanks to all of these awesome Prophet people, this film would be very short without you! // Prophet 5 (rev 3) and Minimoog Model D performed and recorded by Alex Ball at Curve Pusher Studios. www.curvepusher.co.uk/ Prophet 10 performed and recorded by Mike TC at 100 Things I do at MESS, Melbourne.    / @100thingsido   Prophet 10 rev 1 (only 2 of these have survived!) images provided by David Kean at Audities Studio www.audities.org/ Additional Prophet 10 images provided by Mathew Watson at MESS, Melbourne. mess.foundation/ Pro-One performed and recorded by Alex Ball. Prophet 600 performed and recorded by JP Geersing jpgeersing.nl/    • The sound of a Prophet 600 with moder...   Prophet T8 performed by Alex Ball. Massive thanks to the owner! Prophet 2000 performed and recorded by Pulsophonic youtube.com/user/Pulsophonic www.pulsophonic.com/ Prophet VS performed and recorded by Marko Ettlich at Retrosound www.retrosound.de/    / @retrosound72   Prophet 3000, VS and Studio 400 images provided by Synth Electro synthelectro-fr.blogspot.com/ DSi Tetra provided by Dave Grant Prophet 08 performed and recorded by Patrick Gill www.patrickgillmusic.com/ youtube.com/user/PatrickGillMusic Prophet 12 performed and recorded by Pulsophonic youtube.com/user/Pulsophonic www.pulsophonic.com/ Prophet REV2 performed and recorded by Alex Ball Prophet 6 performed and recorded by Mike TC (100 Things I Do)    / @100thingsido   Prophet X performed by Alex Ball and recorded by Pendle Poucher. Huge thanks to the owner. dulcitone1884.virb.com/sound-dust // David Abernethy’s absolute bible on the subject: “The Prophet from Silicon Valley”: www.amazon.com/Prophet-Silicon-Valley-Complete-Seq… Prophet 10 / Terminator time signature article: www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/the… External image credits: All print ads from the incredible Retro Synth Ads archive: retrosynthads.blogspot.com/search/label/sequential… Dave Smith 1977 image: www.matrixsynth.com/2012/07/dave-smith-instruments… Model 600 image: www.matrixsynth.com/2014/09/sequential-circuits-fi… Dave Smith late 70s: flashbak.com/hail-synthesizer-electronics-whiz-kid… Dave Smith Grammy image: www.sequential.com/about/ Model 700 programmer image: www.troperecordings.de/gear/sequential-circuits-mo… More model 700 images if you’re interested: www.matrixsynth.com/2015/12/vintage-1979-sequentia… SSM schematic images: www.synthfool.com/docs/Other_Misc/SSM_Chips/ EMU history website: www.creative.com/emu/company/history/ NAMM 1983 image: www.gearjunkies.com/2012/12/dave-smith-and-ikutaro… Prophet 2000 "coke can" photo conceived by Paul Gilby and taken by Mark Ewing. It originally appeared in a 1985 edition of Sound on Sound. soundonsound.com/ Prophet 3000 screen shots: www.muzines.co.uk/articles/sequential-prophet-3000… Korg M1 image: www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the-prophet-and-the-ris… Sequential rebrand: www.sequential.com/2018/08/dsi-now-sequential/ // I'm also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlexBallMusic/ I'm also on Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexballmusic/ Photos that accompany this film are here: www.facebook.com/pg/AlexBallMusic/photos/?tab=albu…

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