The History of the Prophet Synthesizer

One of the most interesting stories of the synth world is that of Dave Smith and Sequential Circuits. I decided to try to tell some of it via their flagship series, from the Prophet 5 in 1978 to the Prophet X in 2018. With the help of a dozen other people who were incredibly generous and equally excited by their instruments, this film is the result: The History of the Prophet Synthesizer. Massive and heart-felt thanks to all of these awesome Prophet people, this film would be very short without you! // Prophet 5 (rev 3) and Minimoog Model D performed and recorded by Alex Ball at Curve Pusher Studios. http://www.curvepusher.co.uk/ Prophet 10 performed and recorded by Mike TC at 100 Things I do at MESS, Melbourne.    / @100thingsido   Prophet 10 rev 1 (only 2 of these have survived!) images provided by David Kean at Audities Studio https://www.audities.org/ Additional Prophet 10 images provided by Mathew Watson at MESS, Melbourne. https://mess.foundation/ Pro-One performed and recorded by Alex Ball. Prophet 600 performed and recorded by JP Geersing https://jpgeersing.nl/    • The sound of a Prophet 600 with modern upg...   Prophet T8 performed by Alex Ball. Massive thanks to the owner! Prophet 2000 performed and recorded by Pulsophonic    / pulsophonic   http://www.pulsophonic.com/ Prophet VS performed and recorded by Marko Ettlich at Retrosound http://www.retrosound.de/    / @retrosound72   Prophet 3000, VS and Studio 400 images provided by Synth Electro http://synthelectro-fr.blogspot.com/ DSi Tetra provided by Dave Grant Prophet 08 performed and recorded by Patrick Gill http://www.patrickgillmusic.com/    / patrickgillmusic   Prophet 12 performed and recorded by Pulsophonic    / pulsophonic   http://www.pulsophonic.com/ Prophet REV2 performed and recorded by Alex Ball Prophet 6 performed and recorded by Mike TC (100 Things I Do)    / @100thingsido   Prophet X performed by Alex Ball and recorded by Pendle Poucher. Huge thanks to the owner. http://dulcitone1884.virb.com/sound-dust // David Abernethy’s absolute bible on the subject: “The Prophet from Silicon Valley”: https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Silico... Prophet 10 / Terminator time signature article: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cu... External image credits: All print ads from the incredible Retro Synth Ads archive: http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/sea... Dave Smith 1977 image: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/07/d... Model 600 image: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2014/09/s... Dave Smith late 70s: https://flashbak.com/hail-synthesizer... Dave Smith Grammy image: https://www.sequential.com/about/ Model 700 programmer image: http://www.troperecordings.de/gear/se... More model 700 images if you’re interested: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2015/12/v... SSM schematic images: http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Other_M... EMU history website: http://www.creative.com/emu/company/h... NAMM 1983 image: http://www.gearjunkies.com/2012/12/da... Prophet 2000 "coke can" photo conceived by Paul Gilby and taken by Mark Ewing. It originally appeared in a 1985 edition of Sound on Sound. https://soundonsound.com Prophet 3000 screen shots: http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/seq... Korg M1 image: http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the... Sequential rebrand: https://www.sequential.com/2018/08/ds... // I'm also on Facebook:   / alexballmusic   I'm also on Instagram:   / alexballmusic   Photos that accompany this film are here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/AlexBallM...