This week on MusicRadar, we're stacking up hardware synths against their software counterparts as part of the Great Synth Showdown. In our first round, we pit the mighty Prophet-5 against Arturia's excellent emulation.
The original Sequential Prophet-5 might not have been the first actual polyphonic synth, but to many it felt that way. It was certainly the machine that elegantly put all the voices together under one roof, added the presets and made the whole package relatively portable. This meant that to many players of the time, this was the first real-deal polysynth.
