From ucivax!ucla-cs!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!egsner!sdf!iczer Tue Oct 1 18:14:43 PDT 1991 Article: 22332 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!ucla-cs!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!egsner!sdf!iczer From: iczer@sdf.lonestar.org (Ted Uhlemann) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Prophet 600? Message-ID: <467@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: 27 Sep 91 15:24:10 GMT Organization: sdf pub access UNIX, Dallas--anon logins & UUCP avail, no fees Lines: 6 I saw a pair of Prophet 600's on sale at a pawn shop for $225 each. I know the Prophet 8,10,etc are really good synths, but I know nothing about a "Prophet 600" (I'm fairly certain that's what it said). Can anyone give me some help? -- Ted Uhlemann iczer@sdf.lonestar.org ..!cs.utexas.edu!egsner!sdf!iczer From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!rgb.dec.com!rost Thu Oct 3 13:09:19 PDT 1991 Article: 22511 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!rgb.dec.com!rost From: rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600? Message-ID: <1991Sep30.135135.13054@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Date: 30 Sep 91 13:46:59 GMT Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 29 In article <467@sdf.lonestar.org>, iczer@sdf.lonestar.org (Ted Uhlemann) writes... >I saw a pair of Prophet 600's on sale at a pawn shop for $225 each. I know >the Prophet 8,10,etc are really good synths, but I know nothing about a >"Prophet 600" (I'm fairly certain that's what it said). Can anyone give me >some help? >-- >Ted Uhlemann iczer@sdf.lonestar.org ..!cs.utexas.edu!egsner!sdf!iczer The 600 was a stripped down (for cost) redesign of the Prophet 5 and was the first Sequential board with MIDI. It has a small onboard sequencer (100 notes?), arpeggiator and a sound similar to its famous big brother. I have heard that early revs of the software allowed operation in OMNI mode only, perhaps someone could confirm? List price on introduction was $2000. Used prices I've seen recently range from $200 to $500. Brian Rost @rgb.dec.com 508-568-6115 **************************************************** * * * The above does not reflect the opinions of * * my employer. * * * * If music is outlawed, only outlaws will be * * musicians. * * * **************************************************** From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!garbo.ucc.umass.edu!dime!barrett Thu Oct 3 13:09:43 PDT 1991 Article: 22529 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!garbo.ucc.umass.edu!dime!barrett From: barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600? Message-ID: <37242@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 3 Oct 91 14:28:35 GMT References: <1991Sep30.135135.13054@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 14 In article <1991Sep30.135135.13054@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) writes: >The 600 was a stripped down (for cost) redesign of the Prophet 5 and was the >first Sequential board with MIDI.... In fact, it was *the* first commercially available MIDI synthesizer. I remember the 2-page ad in KEYBOARD when it was first advertised. "What's this 'MIDI' thing they mention?" I wondered. Little did I know.... :-) Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett -- Grad student, Department of Computer & Information Science | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 -- barrett@cs.umass.edu | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////// From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Fri Oct 4 13:43:51 PDT 1991 Article: 22580 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600? Summary: Greybeards Anonymous Message-ID: <1991Oct04.190830.199012@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Oct 91 19:08:30 GMT References: <1991Sep30.135135.13054@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <37242@dime.cs.umass.edu> Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu In article <37242@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes: > In fact, it was *the* first commercially available MIDI synthesizer. >I remember the 2-page ad in KEYBOARD when it was first advertised. "What's >this 'MIDI' thing they mention?" I wondered. Little did I know.... :-) Yeah, it WAS kind of a shock, wunnit? Those were the days: everyone trying to market their own interfaces, Oberheim holding out becuase MIDI wasn't as fast as "The Oberheim System (TM)", people claiming as late as 1984 that MIDI still could dry up and die, Carmine Bonnanno insisting on XLR MIDI plugs for the Voyetra Eight because "the only 5-pin DINs were pieces of shit", and so on. I'd feel a lot older and creakier about this if you weren't a lot greyer than I am, Dan. |-> But don't feel badly; NEITHER of us looks as Veteran-Of-The-Psychic-Wars as Rossi does! |-> -- metlay | The good news is that he desires nothing xpander-loving old curmudgeon | more for his music 'rep' than a cameo in | SAVAGE HENRY COMICS. metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | The bad news is, he's likely to make it. From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Fri Oct 4 13:44:45 PDT 1991 Article: 22581 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600? Summary: Missing bits Message-ID: <1991Oct04.191726.201312@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Oct 91 19:17:26 GMT References: <9110031322.aa21590@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu In article <9110031322.aa21590@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> dharkles@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dan Harkless) writes: > Oh... Stripped down? I thought it had the same voice architecture >as the Prophet 5. Maybe I'm not so interested in getting one. What Prophet 5 >features are not included on the 600? Hmm. For starters, the modulation routings are not as flexible, particularly not the Poly-Mod section, I believe. It's been a while since I looked at one, though; I never took the unit seriously, even in 1983 when it came out. You see, there was one GLARING omission that made it inconceivable to spend money on a P-600: The damn thing hasn't got a NOISE SOURCE! |-P -- metlay | The good news is that he desires nothing xpander-loving old curmudgeon | more for his music 'rep' than a cameo in | SAVAGE HENRY COMICS. metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | The bad news is, he's likely to make it. From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!ALASKA.BITNET!JSTRL1 Mon Oct 7 11:40:54 PDT 1991 Article: 22588 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!ALASKA.BITNET!JSTRL1 From: JSTRL1@ALASKA.BITNET (TL (jstrl1@alaska.bitnet)) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Prophet 600! Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 91 05:24:18 GMT Sender: "Redistribution of rec.music.synth" Lines: 12 Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU While we're on the subject of Prophet 600s, I would like to post this for my friend Marlin who is selling a Prophet 600. Any reasonable offer considered...hard to tell what to ask for something like this with analog coming back into Vogue (or would that be Voog?). He was willing to trade a rackmountable tone gen/sample player/etc for it the other day, but none avilable for trade around here...call him at (907) 789-4818, or e-Mail me at jstrl1@alaska.bitnet. Speaking of first-generation MiDi Synths, I DO remember Prophet 600 being the first. Wasn't the Roland JX-3P (with onboard POLYPHONIC sequencer) #2? What was #3? I remember the DX7 and 9 coming out that fall and ever since, EVERYTHING's been MiDi. 8+ years! From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!wupost!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!encore!m2c!garbo.ucc.umass.edu!dime!barrett Mon Oct 7 11:41:12 PDT 1991 Article: 22602 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!wupost!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!encore!m2c!garbo.ucc.umass.edu!dime!barrett From: barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Message-ID: <37360@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 5 Oct 91 15:47:38 GMT References: Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: barrett@panther.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 13 In article JSTRL1@ALASKA.BITNET (TL (jstrl1@alaska.bitnet)) writes: >Speaking of first-generation MiDi Synths, I DO remember Prophet 600 >being the first. Wasn't the Roland JX-3P (with onboard POLYPHONIC >sequencer) #2? What was #3? I think that #2 was the Roland Jupiter-6 and #3 was the Prophet T8. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett -- Grad student, Department of Computer & Information Science | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 -- barrett@cs.umass.edu | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////// From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sun-barr!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Mon Oct 7 11:43:01 PDT 1991 Article: 22604 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sun-barr!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Summary: Ordering Message-ID: <1991Oct05.173102.241872@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Oct 91 17:31:02 GMT References: Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu In article JSTRL1@ALASKA.BITNET (TL (jstrl1@alaska.bitnet)) writes: >Speaking of first-generation MiDi Synths, I DO remember Prophet 600 >being the first. Wasn't the Roland JX-3P (with onboard POLYPHONIC >sequencer) #2? What was #3? I remember the DX7 and 9 coming out that >fall and ever since, EVERYTHING's been MiDi. 8+ years! The Prophet-600 was first, because Sequential pioneered MIDI with its inventor, Jim Smith, at the helm. The only other machine that had MIDI at the Winter 1982 (or was it Spring 1983, with "USI" having been DISCUSSED at the Winter 1982 show?) NAMM show was the Roland Jupiter-6. Supposedly, Jim Smith, when asked about what good MIDI would be by a watcher at the P600 demo, shut off and unplugged the P600, jumped off the podium with it, walked across the showroom floor with it (with the crowd following behind him) to the Roland booth, and said to the demonstrator there, "Hi, Can I hook up my Prophet to your Jupiter with MIDI?" The Roland guy said, "Sure. There's a stand for it," and they dug up a couple of DIN cables, hooked them together-- --and nothing happened. Snickers from the audience. Anyway, it took a little rewiring, but before the audience dissipated completely, the 600 and Jupe-6 were playing together from either keyboard. An auspicious beginning, and at least partially apocryphal. The next machines ot feature MIDI were the Yamaha DX7 and DX9, which by their nature attracted huge followings. It could be argued that they were what made MIDI take off-- apparently the first time anyone ever MIDIed a DX7 to a Jupe-6, the crowd REALLY began to see what this new idea could do, and from then on, it was Katie bar the door. Other early machines with primitive implementations: the Korg Poly-61M and Poly-800, the Siel DK600, the Bit One, the Roland JX3P (with adapter boxes for the Jupe-8 and Juno-60), the Oberheim OB-8, the Kawai SX-240..... ...and, a year later, the Xpander. -- metlay | The good news is that he desires nothing xpander-loving old curmudgeon | more for his music 'rep' than a cameo in | SAVAGE HENRY COMICS. metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | The bad news is, he's likely to make it. From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!rgb.dec.com!rost Mon Oct 7 11:45:01 PDT 1991 Article: 22590 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!rgb.dec.com!rost From: rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600 Summary: Posting for Pat Tilsworth Message-ID: <1991Oct4.120018.12993@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Date: 4 Oct 91 14:57:22 GMT Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 56 In <1991Sep30.135135.13054@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rost@rgb.dec.com writes: > > The 600 was a stripped down (for cost) redesign of the Prophet 5 and was the > first Sequential board with MIDI. It has a small onboard sequencer (100 > notes?), arpeggiator and a sound similar to its famous big brother. I have > heard that early revs of the software allowed operation in OMNI mode only, > perhaps someone could confirm? List price on introduction was $2000. Used > prices I've seen recently range from $200 to $500. > i am an original owner of a prophet-600, and the big reason for buying it (must have been around 1984) was that it had the big fat sound of the prophet-5 for half the price (compare $1800 to about $4500? for the p-5, around 1984). The p-600 and p-5 sound similar but from what I remember demoing both models is that the p-5 could produce more complex sounds - I would have purchased a p-5 if it wasn't so expensive back then. the p-600 has 6-note polyphony, a small-100 or so note onboard real-time, non-editable, non-midi-sync-able sequencer, and an arpeggiator (also non-midi-sync-able). There are 100 storage locations for sounds. The 30 or so pots and switches on the front panel make programming much less complicated than today's synths. This is a non-velocity sensitive keyboard (maybe unless you hit it with a hammer), has no aftertouch, pitch-wheel is non-programmable. It has 2 midi ports (in & out) and the early versions of the p-600 do only support OMNI mode. Sequential offered an upgrade for the earlier versions for about $25 ......they sent you a chip which had a simple installation (no soldering or EE experience needed). The upgrade allowed you to receive MIDI on one channel or OMNI mode. I am not sure if it allowed sending on one channel but doubt it. The 2-digit display for sounds and midi information is a real negative to the synth. Also the numeric keypad to enter the number of the sound patch and midi info is another negative. But the sounds are definitely "fatter and warmer" as they say, than the FM stuff you here today. BTW - shortly after the introduction of the prophet-600, Roland introduced what I believe was their first mass-market MIDI synth: the JUNO-60, which was shortly followed by the JUNO-106. Both of these synths ran at about $1000 around 1985. I don't know much about these synths but if you are looking for a cheap MIDI analog synth you might look for one of these. ==================== Pat Tilsworth UACN Systems Programming snpjt@orca.alaska.edu Fairbanks, AK % ====== Internet headers and postmarks (see DECWRL::GATEWAY.DOC) ====== % Received: by enet-gw.pa.dec.com; id AA08641; Thu, 3 Oct 91 15:20:01 -0700 % Received: by orca.alaska.edu (MX V2.3) id 1471; Thu, 03 Oct 1991 11:47:49 EDT % Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1991 11:47:49 EDT % From: snpjt@ORCA.pa.dec.com % To: rost@rgb.dec.com % Message-Id: <0094F8FF.79F18F40.1471@orca.alaska.edu> % Subject: Re: Prophet 600 From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sun-barr!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Mon Oct 7 19:58:02 PDT 1991 Article: 22605 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sun-barr!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600 Summary: *BZZZT* WRONGO! Message-ID: <1991Oct05.173802.243662@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Oct 91 17:38:02 GMT References: <1991Oct4.120018.12993@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu In article <1991Oct4.120018.12993@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) writes: >BTW - shortly after the introduction of the prophet-600, Roland introduced >what I believe was their first mass-market MIDI synth: the JUNO-60, which >was shortly followed by the JUNO-106. Both of these synths ran at about >$1000 around 1985. I don't know much about these synths but if you are >looking for a cheap MIDI analog synth you might look for one of these. Tsk, tsk! Brian, I'm ashamed of you! Such a lack of historical rectitude! |-> The Juno-60 had a Roland DCB interface, not MIDI. It, and the Jupiter-8, were retrofitted to MIDI by companies OTHER than Roland, and there was a box called the MD-8 which converted DCB data to MIDI that WAS made by Roland. But the Juno-60 was NOT a MIDI synth, technically, and most of the ones you'll find today, coming as they do without the rare MD-8 or the rarer retros, are not MIDIable at all. Also, the Juno-106 came much later and was a big cost breakthrough, but at the cost of a much simpler architecture. It did good bass sounds, but unlike the Polysix I always felt it SOUNDED like a one-VCO synth.... -- metlay | The good news is that he desires nothing xpander-loving old curmudgeon | more for his music 'rep' than a cameo in | SAVAGE HENRY COMICS. metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | The bad news is, he's likely to make it. From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!smithj Mon Oct 7 19:59:44 PDT 1991 Article: 22682 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!smithj From: smithj@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Jim Smith) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Message-ID: <1680115@hpsad.sad.hp.com> Date: 7 Oct 91 17:15:56 GMT References: Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA Lines: 13 Mike Metlay writes: >The Prophet-600 was first, because Sequential pioneered MIDI with its inventor, >Jim Smith, at the helm. Gee, I wish I could take the credit for this one! Oh well... I just wanted to say that I think the name of the "inventor of MIDI" is Steve Smith. There are a lot of folks named "Jim Smith" out there, alright, but I'm pretty sure that the visionary leader of Sequential is Steve. I would have noticed if he had my name... - Jim Smith smithj@hpsad.hp.com Yupatupata da yupadupa chickida, Icktang icktang, Ickitack tangdow, Rickitickatar ticka chingtar da. From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!seunet!mcsun!uknet!ukc!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!nick Tue Oct 8 17:54:37 PDT 1991 Article: 22700 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!seunet!mcsun!uknet!ukc!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Message-ID: <19135@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 8 Oct 91 11:56:19 GMT References: <1680115@hpsad.sad.hp.com> Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Muriel Gray Fan Club (sole member) Lines: 20 In article <1680115@hpsad.sad.hp.com>, smithj@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Jim Smith) writes: > Mike Metlay writes: > >The Prophet-600 was first, because Sequential pioneered MIDI with its inventor, > >Jim Smith, at the helm. > > Gee, I wish I could take the credit for this one! Oh well... > I just wanted to say that I think the name of the "inventor of MIDI" is Steve > Smith. The name Dave Smith comes to mind, but that's the guy behind the Prophet VS and Wavestation. The other name which comes to mind is Steve Oppenheim, but didn't he invent the atomic bomb? Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Runway not needed - am coming in vertically." From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Tue Oct 8 17:54:58 PDT 1991 Article: 22703 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Summary: whoops Message-ID: <1991Oct08.164753.171922@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 8 Oct 91 16:47:53 GMT References: <1680115@hpsad.sad.hp.com> Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 9 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu Sorry for the mixup. JIM Smith is a fellow Netter. STEVE Smith is a drummer for various bands. MIDI was the brainchild of DAVE Smith of Sequential. -- metlay | synthesizer-assisted onanist | "Pinch me, C'thulu-- I think I am INSANE!" | metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | --Conrad Schnitzler, in SAVAGE HENRY Comix From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!utzoo!telly!problem!intacc!zerobeat Mon Oct 14 15:01:08 PDT 1991 Article: 22866 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!utzoo!telly!problem!intacc!zerobeat From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 600! Message-ID: <1991Oct12.160353.13772@intacc.uucp> Date: 12 Oct 91 16:03:53 GMT Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto Lines: 17 >Mike Metlay writes: >>The Prophet-600 was first, because Sequential pioneered MIDI with its inventor, >>Jim Smith, at the helm. > > Gee, I wish I could take the credit for this one! Oh well... >I just wanted to say that I think the name of the "inventor of MIDI" is Steve >Smith. There are a lot of folks named "Jim Smith" out there, alright, but >I'm pretty sure that the visionary leader of Sequential is Steve. I would have >noticed if he had my name... > > - Jim Smith smithj@hpsad.hp.com > Yupatupata da yupadupa chickida, Icktang icktang, > Ickitack tangdow, Rickitickatar ticka chingtar da. I'm 99.9% sure it was Dave Smith at the helm. ferenc