Brad Fiedel used a Prophet-10 to record the soundtrack for The Terminator (1984), and the filmmaker John Carpenter used both the Prophet-5 and Prophet-10 extensively for his soundtracks. Radiohead used the Prophet-5 on their 2000 album Kid A, such as on the song " Everything In Its Right Place". Michael Jackson used it extensively on Thriller (1982), and Madonna used it on Like a Virgin (1984). The Prophet-5 became a market leader and industry standard. : 385 According to MusicRadar, the Prophet-5 "changed the world – simple as that". The Prophet-5, with its ability to save sounds to patch memory, facilitated a move from synthesizers creating unpredictable sounds to producing "a standard package of familiar sounds". īefore the Prophet-5, synthesizers required users to adjust cables and knobs to change sounds, with no guarantee of exactly recreating a sound. In all, approximately 6,000 Prophet-5 synthesizers were produced. According to Sound on Sound, Revision 3 "remained impressive and pleasant to play, but was slightly cold and featureless by comparison to earlier models". Revision 3 replaced the Solid State Music (SSM) chipset with Curtis Electromusic Specialties (CEM) chips, necessitating a major redesign.
Revision 2 was mass-produced in quantities over 1,000 this model was more robust, added cassette patch storage, and replaced the koa wood casing with walnut. The first, Revision 1, was hand-assembled and produced quickly to generate initial revenue only 182 were made. Smith demonstrated the Prophet-5 at NAMM in January 1978 and shipped the first models later that year. Smith and Bowen removed half the electronics, reducing the voices to five and creating the Prophet-5. Initially, Smith and Bowen developed the Prophet-10, a synthesizer with ten voices of polyphony however, it was unstable and quickly overheated, creating tuning problems. When no instrument emerged, in early 1977, Smith quit his job to work full-time on the idea. He did not pursue the idea, assuming Moog or ARP would design the instrument first. Smith conceived the idea of combining them with synthesizer chips to create a programmable synthesizer this would allow users to save sounds to memory, rather than having to recreate them manually. At the time, Smith had a full-time job working with microprocessors, then a new technology. The Prophet-5 was created in 1977 by Dave Smith and John Bowen at Sequential Circuits. Problems playing this file? See media help. Bass and percussion come in at 20 seconds. He is joined at ten seconds by Paul McCandless on soprano saxophone, with synth and horn each repeating the theme. From the 1987 jazz album Ecotopia by the band Oregon, this song starts with the Prophet-10 played solo by Ralph Towner.
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