1/22/2024 0 Comments Sequential circuits prophet 10![]() ![]() The new keyboard system was highly complex. Because it was the keyboard that slowed things down the most in the 2-year developmental of the T8. ![]() Whereas the marketing and sales departments were aware of the great chance inherent in this new aspect, the technicians were considerably more sceptical, admittedly to their credit. The telling “T” – standing for Touch – was an attempt to attract professional studio musicians. Whereas the 61-note keyboard of a Roland Jupiter-8, Oberheim OB-X/Xa or Korg Trident had no touch sensitivity at its disposal, the designers sought to build a Prophet-T8 with “more” keys that were, in addition, velocity sensitive. According to the marketing department, the goal was to build a new instrument that contrasted clearly with the 8-voice synthesizers that were then just hitting the market. ![]() From the very beginning, the elaborate keyboard was the critical factor in its development. Nearly 10,000 Pro-Ones were made in its 4 years of production.īut back to the T8. The ladder becoming the company’s best selling instrument. Sequential’s planning group had some difficulty agreeing on the details of its luxury keyboard, but, in the end, the “Prophet-T8” project was approved on along with a new effect unit called “Pro-FX” and a monophonic synthesizer called “ Pro-One“. Its only obvious advantages were its duo-timbral voice architecture and its 10 voices.Īs a consequence, way back in 1980 the decision was made to develope a new instrument, an instrument with 8 voices and a luxurious keyboard similar to a piano keyboard.Īn instrument with velocity-, split- and layer-functions. Its integrated sequencer could be bought as a simple additional component for the Prophet-5 and its double keyboard was double, but not dynamically sensitive. The Prophet-10 of 1980 – very big, very expensive, a tick unreliable – boasted no real innovations. Let’s take a look back! The amazingly successful Prophet-5 of 1978 proved both a benefit and a burden to Sequential, and the great challenge for many years was to find a worthy successor to the original Prophet. Finally, the complex development process behind the T8 is impressive … To say nothing of its attractive price on the second-hand market. For its musical efficency, for its sound potential, for its uncompromising architecture, for its many impressive technical extras. The Prophet-T8 astonishes us for many reasons. ![]() Modern, technologically highly qualified, up-to-date hybrid instruments far away from the pure analog sound architecture of the old Prophet-T8.Īdmittedly, the T8 was a bit of a hybrid on its own … History of the giant Prophet X / Prophet XL are digital Sample & Synthesis instruments, additionally equipped with CEM filters. The present point in time is especially well-suited to our story, because DSI (alias Dave Smith Instruments, now again under its original name “Sequential”) has just released the new Prophet XL – the second Sequential synthesizer with 76 weighted keys, 35 years after the Prophet-T8.īut the similarities (common name, identical number of keys) end here. Which story is better suited to the Christmas season than that of a prophet? The story of an especially remarkable instrument, of one of the best built analog synthesizers of all times …Īnd then, too, being the story of a prophet which neither forsaw the rapid upheavels of the digital age nor the accompanying demise of its own company. ![]()
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