The Prophet '08 is an eight-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer released by Dave Smith Instruments in 2007. Designed by Dave Smith, it serves as a successor to the legendary Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, utilizing an analog signal path with digitally controlled envelopes. It remained in production until 2016, when it was superseded by the Prophet Rev2.
Prophet 08
2007–2016
Sequential is an American synthesizer company founded in 1974 as Sequential Circuits by Dave Smith. In 1978, Sequential released the Prophet-5, the first programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which was widely used in the music industry. In the 1980s, Sequential was important in the development of MIDI, a technical standard for synchronizing electronic instruments.