A couple of days ago I had the great honor to meet with Dave Smith of Dave Smith’s Instruments. Dave is perhaps most famous for being one of the two inventors of the MIDI protocol, but for the last 30 years he has also been busy designing some of the most interesting synthesizers around.
His latest creation is the Prophet 12, a massive 12 voice synthesizer with 4 oscillators and a sub-oscillator per voice.
They are still hard to come by as the production has just started and they are all built here in San Francisco.
I had the great luck to be able to pick one up at Robotspeak at Haight Street, and through a series of lucky events Dave agreed to sign it for me.
So, with the synth still in its box I headed down to Dave’s office, where he kindly signed it and agreed to pose for some photos :)
I am now the happy owner of a signed Prophet 12, and yes the signature of course adds that extra ‘warmth’ and magic to the sound! ;-)
Glitzerstrahl 
Any possibility, that you will post a review of your Prophet?
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Absolutely! Unfortunately I’m traveling at the moment so it will take a while before I can, but rest assure that I will :). In the meantime suffice it to say that I’m very impressed! The workflow, the massive and expressive sound sculpting capabilities as well as the build quality are all top notch!
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