When no instrument emerged, in early 1977, Smith quit his job to work full-time on the idea. He did not pursue the idea, assuming Moog or ARP would design the instrument first. Smith conceived the idea of combining them with synthesizer chips to create a programmable synthesizer this would allow users to save sounds to memory, rather than having to recreate them manually. At the time, Smith had a full-time job working with microprocessors, then a new technology. The Prophet-5 was created in 1977 by Dave Smith and John Bowen at Sequential Circuits. Problems playing this file? See media help. The Prophet-5 has been widely used in popular music and film soundtracks. Sequential introduced new versions in 2020, and it has been emulated in software synthesizers and hardware. In 1981, Sequential released a 10-voice, double-keyboard version, the Prophet-10. : 385īetween 19, about 6,000 units were produced across three revisions.
This allowed users to store sounds and recall them instantly rather than having to reprogram them manually whereas synthesizers had once created unpredictable sounds, the Prophet-5 moved synthesizers to producing "a standard package of familiar sounds". It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen in 1977, who used microprocessors, then a new technology, to create the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory. The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential. A Prophet-10 Rev 4, a 10-voice version of the Prophet-5Ĥ0 patches (120 patches on later units, 200 patches on the Rev4 iteration)Ħ1 keys (Prophet-5 (all versions), Prophet-10 (1977, Rev 4))ĭouble 61 key manuals (Prophet-10 (1981-84))
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