One of Dave Smith’s last projects was overseeing the tech platform that would become Take 5. And that was a breakthrough: everything great about the Prophet-5 meets fresh modulation and effects and an accessible price. Now, you can bring Take 5 home for $1299 as a compact desktop unit. Oberheim’s TEO-5 desktop is also out today at that price, thanks to that underlying tech, but let’s talk Sequential first.
Read moreSequential, the house Dave Smith built, keeps cramming extras into their instruments for free. Which is their flagship, exactly? Who knows? Who cares? The Pro 3 just got a lot cooler.
Sequential continues a grand tradition of analog/digital hybrid instruments. And a major advantage to that – you’re not restricted to the sonic colors of just the analog sound sources. Prophet X is a 50GB custom multisampler, too.
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