Sequential Circuits

Sequential Circuits Inc. was an american company of synthetizers founded with the beginning of the year 1970 by Dave Smith. It was resold with Yamaha in 1987.

Initially sub-contracting for other manufacturers, the company starts very modestly by manufacturing numerical sequencers and programmers for synthetizers, the assembly being realized in the proper garage of Dave Smith in San Jose. Thanks to John Bowen, specialist in the synthetizers Moog, Barb Fairhurst, a businesswoman, and the material aid of the company Moved, SCI leaves in 1978 its first genuine synthetizer, the Prophet 5. Presented to NAMM of the same year it revolutionizes the market of the synthetizers quickly.

Very points some in digital technologies, Sequential Circuits adopts the standard MIDDAY (Dave Smith is one of the originators) and turns to the manufacture of sampler S and boxes at rates/rhythms. The Prophet VS of 1986 is the first treated oscillator synthetizer in a way intièrement numerical of the mark. Vis-a-vis the financial problems, the production is sub-contracted in Japan in the middle of the years 1980.

After the repurchase of 1987 (for approximately 500.000$), Dave Smith becomes consulting independent for Yamaha then Korg while former employees create Wine Country, a specialized company in the restoration of the old models Sequential Circuits.

In 2000, Dave Smith creates his own company to market new synthetizers: the Evolver and the Polyevolver partly take again the architecture of Prophet 5 and VS.

There also exists of many emulations software of the synthetizers Sequential Circuits.

In September 2007, it is a very new model hardware: Prophet 8 which is born with a version SE (Special Edition).

Instruments

  • Prophet 5, polyphonic synthetizer programmable (1978)
  • Prophet 10, polyphonic synthetizer programmable (1980)
  • Pro-One, monophonic synthetizer programmable (1981)
  • Prophet 600, polyphonic synthetizer programmable (1983)
  • Prophet T-8, polyphonic synthetizer programmable with touching heavy (1983)
  • Six-Trak, synthetizer polyphonic multitimbral programmable (1984)
  • Multitrak/MAX, synthetizer polyphonic multitimbral programmable (1984)
  • Prophet 2000, sampler (1985)
  • Drum-Tracks, limps at rates/rhythms (1984)
  • Tom, limps at rates/rhythms (1985)
  • Prophet VS, synthetizer polyphonic multitimbral programmable numerical (1986)
  • Studio 440, sampler/sequencer (1986)
  • Prophet 3000, sampler (1987)

External bonds

  • the personal museum of Dave Smith
  • the site of the company Dave Smith Instruments
  • the site of the company Wine Country

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