Honestly the Sequential Prophet-5 is one of our favourite synths, and with very good reason. It's been used on some of the finest tracks of the last five decades, and sounds in equal parts atmospheric, classic, occasionally '80s', and massive. More importantly than any of that, it introduced polyphony and patch-saving to the synth masses. It was a true synth revolution.
Released in a sea of monophonic synths in 1978, the Prophet-5 took the world by storm and the odd journalist by surprise. We've unearthed the very first review of this world-first polysynth, and it's well worth a revisit, with brilliant attempts at explaining some of the then all-new technology that we all know and love today, not to mention some fine predictions along the way…
