SOUND ON SOUND
Like all love affairs, love of vintage gear isn’t entirely rational. Old equipment is often unreliable, noisy and limited. But...
Robert Alexander pays tribute to the short-lived yet truely revolutionary Prophet 3000 which, like Sequential themselves, vanished almost overnight...
Boasting one of the most intuitive methods of sound creation ever devised, 1986's Prophet VS was meant to be US synth giant Sequential's commercial saviour. Sadly, it didn't succeed - but it did earn itself the status of American Classic...
The Sequential Pro 3 — a hybrid digital/analogue three-oscillator polysynth with three filter types — was launched in the run-up to NAMM.
Sequential founding father and synth designer Dave Smith made time at Synthplex 2019 to discuss the current state of play of the wonderful world of synthesis.
Keyboardist/producer Julian Colbeck (of KeyFax NewMedia/Alan Parsons' ASSR) reflects on this inaugural West Coast 'Everything Synthesizer' event and managed to secure an exclusive chat with Thomas Dolby (watch the video).
Sequential, the brand headed up by synth pioneer Dave Smith, have today announced the Prophet XL, a 76-key version of their flagship Prophet X hybrid synth...
The Sequential Prophet X combines analogue and sample-based synthesis in one enormously ambitious and flexible instrument.
![Figure 1: [top-left] A paraphonic synthesizer. Figure 2: [bottom-left] A fully polyphonic analogue synthesizer. Figure 3: [right] Octave divider boards.](https://dt7v1i9vyp3mf.cloudfront.net/styles/teaser_large/s3/imagelibrary/s/synth1_2_3-0101-muEtxP7wD74DHo.jL_rSEge628JVxWw1.gif "Figure 1: [top-left] A paraphonic synthesizer. Figure 2: [bottom-left] A fully polyphonic analogue synthesizer. Figure 3: [right] Octave divider boards.")
This time, Gordon Reid explains how various analogue synth manufacturers attempted to create workable polyphonic synths by employing digital technology.
Back in 1986, Sequential's Prophet 2000 represented a genuine breakthrough in sampling technology, and became a 'secret weapon' for up-and-coming programmers. We take you back to the dawning days of SOS, when 12-bit was king.
