Phil O'Keefe Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 That's right - say goodbye to DSI... They're now known as "Sequential." http://www.harmonycentral.com/news/dsi-is-no-more---long-live-sequential Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 Hey wait a minute. Why does that name sound so familiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gismo recording Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 Wasn't there a "Sequential Circuits" company some time back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Hey wait a minute. Why does that name sound so familiar? I dunno man, I don't recognize it, but I blew a few circuits in my brain back in the '80s, so maybe I'm just forgetting something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Mad props to Yamaha for giving Dave the rights to the name back. That was a righteous move on their part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zeopold Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 The Prophet was a great synth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 The Prophet was a great synth One of the small handful of truly groundbreaking synths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln3 Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 Maybe Dave should consider calling it "Dave Smith's Sequential Circuits" for potential young EDM customers who weren't around back in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 One of the small handful of truly groundbreaking synths Indeed - five note polyphonic and fully programmable; an analog synth under microprocessor control - that was pretty much all groundbreaking stuff back in the late 1970s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 Indeed - five note polyphonic and fully programmable; an analog synth under microprocessor control - that was pretty much all groundbreaking stuff back in the late 1970s. Yep. And relatively affordable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Yep. And relatively affordable. Relatively being the operative word. I don't know about you, but the first time I saw one, it was absolute unobtanium. I did get a Rev 2.2 later, but back in the late '70s, the P5 was WAY beyond my budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted September 1, 2018 Members Share Posted September 1, 2018 Relatively being the operative word. I don't know about you, but the first time I saw one, it was absolute unobtanium. I did get a Rev 2.2 later, but back in the late '70s, the P5 was WAY beyond my budget. I got a Rev 3.3 in 1982. I don’t remember what it was. $2K maybe? A lot of money back then for sure. But at least it was in a consumer price range. Anything eleee before it that came close to doing to the same thing was 3-4 times as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 I got a Rev 3.3 in 1982. I don’t remember what it was. $2K maybe? A lot of money back then for sure. But at least it was in a consumer price range. Anything eleee before it that came close to doing to the same thing was 3-4 times as much. I remember walking into Hanich Music in West Covina sometime around 1981 or so and being just blown away by what they had in the keyboard department - the P5, the Obie "system" (DSX, DMX, OB-Xa, etc.), the first Emulator... and most of the stuff was several thousand dollars. All gearlust-worthy, but at the time, it was all well beyond my budget. I got my P5 (which I only had relatively briefly) in the mid 80's after they were discontinued, and like yours, mine was purchased used. It was the only way I could afford it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 3, 2018 Members Share Posted September 3, 2018 Whats old is new again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 Wow' date=' very cool that he got the name going again![/quote'] It wouldn't have happened without Yamaha. They owned the rights to it, but gave them back to Dave. That's pretty darned cool of them IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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