The better question is why If you are not working to evolve your creations, they why do it at all.What do we think that might be Happy Birthday Dave Dave Smith is 70 years old and still making synthesizers.He founded Sequential Instruments in 1974 and produced the legendary Prophet 5 amongst other great synthesizers.
Sequential Instruments Software Synthesizers AndHe moved on to join RD at Yamaha working on software synthesizers and physical modelling.From there he moved to RD at Korg working on the Wavestation and then on to Seer Systems producing the first professional software synthesizer for Intel in 1997. ![]() And his current range of instruments reflects his hybrid experience of working with the best of all sorts of technology. A new instrument Dave talks about it being a new synthesizer design and that it would normally be sitting exactly where he currently has one of his new Pro-3 Special Edition synthesizers sitting in the video. This would perhaps indicate that this is going to be something weve not seen before. Alongside you can just see the end of the Prophet X Hybrid Synth which combines digital oscillators, a huge sample-based sound engine and analogue filters. Its an instrument that seems to combine the various forms of technology Dave has worked in over the years. Maybe the recent spate of wavetable synthesizers has inspired him to revisit his days at Korg One clue could be that its going to be a similar size to the Pro-3 if its fitting into that same space, which says to me that it will be less of a large workstation and more of a focused synthesizer. An evolved instrument Or perhaps this new design is going to do something interesting with some of his legacy products. Dave says that its my gift back to you which does make it sound like hes wanting to respond to peoples expectations of Sequential. There are also the few notes at the beginning of the video that sound very old school analogue. Its tempting to focus on the Prophet 5 when talking about Sequential but with the Prophet-6, Rev2 and OB-6 theyve pretty much done everything in the analogue polysynth space. Which leads me to believe that if they were going to take something from the back catalogue then its likely to incorporate both digital and analogue technologies. DSI Prophet REV2 Desktop Coming soon Dave says that it will ship in August. That does make I wonder whether they would have shown it at Superbooth And if so then maybe we can expect to see a sneak preview around the end of April with the various virtual Superbooth events that are trying to happen on the internet around that time. Regardless of what it ends up being when Dave Smith announces a new instrument, its time to get excited. What do you think it could be Suggestions in the comments please. ![]() There is no synth in the Mopho category now Reply Bill Ruppert says: 6th April 2020 at 5:09 pm He is COOL Reply Modern3 says: 6th April 2020 at 6:08 pm I like Dave, he is a genuinely pleasant man, however this regurgitative repackaging of the same technology, patching essentially elements of his past creations is a bit cynical and extremely fatiguing. He has even stated in multiple interviews that he is less interested in new synthesis and more interested in combining elements he enjoys the best.
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