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Dave Smith — the electronic music pioneer behind MIDI and the inventor of the iconic Prophet-5 synthesizer — has died, San Francisco-based synthesizer company Sequential announced this week. Smith ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Smith, a giant of the synthesizer industry who built the Prophet-5 and was bestowed the title “Father of MIDI,” died ...
Even if you don’t know a sine wave from a sawtooth, you’ve likely heard a Sequential synthesizer before. The original Prophet-5 synth, released in 1978, supplies the squelchy bass solo in “Burning ...
One of the central figures in that shift was Dave Smith, who founded Sequential Circuits in 1974. By 1978, Smith had launched the Prophet-5, the world’s first fully programmable polyphonic synth and a ...