Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the Prophet-5 synthesizer

By: Elizabeth Blair | NPR
Posted on: Wednesday, June 8, 2022

WASHIGNTON, D.C. (NPR) — The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the most impactful people behind that sound was inventor Dave Smith, creator of the Prophet-5 synthesizer and founder of Sequential Circuits, the instrument’s small-scale production company. Though his most well-known inventions were decades in the… Read More