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The Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the original Prophet-5—true voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers—and adds enhancements such as studio-quality effects, a polyphonic step sequencer, an arpeggiator, and more.
The Prophet 6 is, as its name implies, a six-voice polysynth. It offers two VCOs per voice, but these are not recreations of the Prophet 5’s oscillators, which offered simultaneous ramp and pulse/PWM waves on Osc1, and simultaneous ramp, triangle and pulse/PWM waves on Osc2.
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The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen in 1977. It was the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory .
- 1978–84, 2020– (Prophet-5), 1977, 1981–84, 2020– (Prophet-10)
- Sequential
- 5 voices (Prophet-5), 10 voices (Prophet-10)
Sequential is an American synthesizer company founded in 1974 as Sequential Circuits by Dave Smith. In 1978, Sequential released the Prophet-5, the first programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which was widely used in the music industry.
- 1974; 49 years ago
- Synthesizers
- Dave Smith (founder)
"A little Mozart on the synth. I'm using a 61 key MIDI controller to cover all the notes in the piece (49 keys is not enough). All sounds are from the Prophet 6 and Moog delay. Equipment used: Dave Smith Sequential Prophet 6 synthesizer Moog MF-104z delay Studiologic VMK-161 MIDI controller Yamaha MSR 100 amp Recorded live to IPad Pro"
David Joseph Smith (April 2, 1950 – May 31, 2022) was an American engineer and founder of the synthesizer company Sequential. Smith created the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory, the Prophet-5, which had a major impact on the music industry.
