Some years ago, I was working with a friend of mine, from a well known and successful indie band, and while assisting in some studio maintenance-style duties, noticed a lowly Pro-One in the store, looking unused and up-ended. ![]() Given the affordability of the Pro-One, something had to give, and it’s no surprise that the build quality of the Pro-One came in for a lot of criticism, and was nowhere near the polished finish of the Prophet-5. Produced from 1980 onwards, the Pro-One is thought to be the first professional-grade synthesiser that hit the ‘below $1,000’ price point – which it did by quite some margin, initially selling for $645, but rising swiftly to $745. So you could question the decision to make a monophonic version of the Prophet-5, which is the over-simplified description of what the Pro-One represents. ![]() This company saw the rise of synth legend Dave Smith – the SCI name emanated from the first run of products, which largely focused on sequencer or drum-machine designs, but the groundbreaking SCI synth came in 1978, in the shape of the Prophet-5.Ī five-voice analogue synthesiser which had patch memory allocations, it was the answer to many keyboard player’s dreams in fact, a friend of mine who was a gigging session muso from that time cites the Prophet-5 as being the only machine that was needed back then, as it pretty much did everything that was required.
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