Music technology was an expensive business back in the late 60s. It was very much the preserve of the rich or culturally successful elite, at least until a degree of democratisation occurred, during ...

The Prophet ’08 was seen as a rebirth of the Prophet series, in an 8-voice synthesiser, which offered two oscillators per voice, but now in a DCO format. It was deemed as the return of an analogue ...

With the recent announcement that Dave Smith, the man behind Sequential Circuits, has reacquired the Sequential name, we're reminded of the company's contributions to music technology. Perhaps their ...

Even if you don’t know a sine wave from a sawtooth, you’ve likely heard a Sequential synthesizer before. The original Prophet-5 synth, released in 1978, supplies the squelchy bass solo in “Burning ...