Dave Smith Instruments
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| Founded | January 21, 2002 |
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| Headquarters | 1527 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Key people
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Dave Smith (Founder) |
| Products | Musical instruments |
| Website | www.davesmithinstruments.com |
Dave Smith Instruments is an American company based in San Francisco, California which manufactures electronic musical instruments. The company was founded in 2002 by Dave Smith, best known as the founder of Sequential Circuits and lead designer of its Prophet 5 synthesizer, as well as for his work on MIDI.
Many concepts and technologies previously used in Smith's Sequential Circuits designs have factored into Dave Smith Instruments new products, along with completely new designs. The Prophet '08 and Prophet 12 share the name of some of Sequential Circuits' most successful synthesizers, and the Evolver series shares vector synthesis technology first released by Sequential in Smith's own Prophet VS in 1986.
In 2009, Smith announced that he was collaborating with Roger Linn (the inventor of the first drum machine to use digital samples) to design a new drum machine called Tempest which would utilize analog synthesis. The production version of Tempest was unveiled at the Winter NAMM show in January 2012.
In 2015, the company released the Prophet-6, the first instrument in over 30 years to bear the Sequential name. The name had been returned to Smith the previous year by its previous owner, Yamaha. The following year, he collaborated with Tom Oberheim to produce the OB-6.
Evolver (2002) /
Evolver Keyboard (2003)
Prophet '08 (2007)
Mopho (2009)
Mopho Keyboard (2010)
Tetra (2009)
Tempest analog drum machine and synthesizer (2011)
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