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Need more teasing about the upcoming Prophet 8 synth?
Here’s a bit of video temptation:

via Sonic State

 

Here’s something worth talking about - Dave Smith, one of the pioneers of synths, has announced his latest project - an 8-voice update on the Sequential Circuits Prophet V.
Here’s what has been announced:
The rumors are true. (Well, most of ‘em, anyway.) Dave has emerged from his underground lair (the Dave Cave?) with a fresh take [...]

 

John Bowen Synth Design has introduced the Solaris keyboard synthesizer.
Bowen is best known for his work on pioneering keyboard synthesizers at Sequential Circuits, but he’s also been very active creating software synths.
“While I certainly enjoyed many good years at Sequential Circuits, working as an independent plug-in developer for the Scope platform over the last 7 [...]

 

Native Instruments has released PRO-53 3.0.3, an update for its popular virtual analog synthesizer. Introducing Universal Binary support, the new version lets users of Intel-based Macintosh computers utilize the full potential of this faithful emulation of the much-famed analog synthesizer from the 80s.
The 3.0.3 update for Windows and Mac is now available as a [...]

 

NAMM 2006 Winter Show: Arturia introduced a hybrid of two classic Sequential Circuits synthesizers that changed the face of music during the ’70s and ’80s, the Prophet V.
The warmth of the Prophet 5, one of the first programmable polyphonic analog synths, is combined with the digital textures of the Prophet VS in the [...]