page_title: Prophet-5
section_title: Prophet-10
hierarchical_section_title: Prophet-5 / Production / Prophet-10
caption_attribution_description: SCI Prophet 10 &#160;inside — sandwiched voice boards That's two Prophet 5 voice boards sandwiched together. thermal nightmare!
context_page_description: The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by Sequential Circuits between 1978 and 1984. It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen. The Prophet-5 was the first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer and the first musical instrument with an embedded microprocessor. About 6,000 units were produced across three revisions. It has been emulated in software synthesizers and analog hardware.
context_section_description: In 1981, Sequential Circuits finally released the Prophet-10 synthesizer, featuring 10 voices, 20 oscillators, and a double manual keyboard. Like the Prophet-5 Revision 3, it uses CEM chips. The first Prophet-10s used an Exatron Stringy Floppy drive for saving patches and storing sequencer data. Sequential later moved to a Braemar tape drive, which was more reliable and could store about four times as many sequencer events.
caption: In the Prophet-10, a pair of Prophet-5 sound boards provide ten voices
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