Is Dave Smith a Performing Musician?

Short excerpt from "Next Sounds: An Afternoon with Dave Smith"

Dave Smith is an American audio engineer who arguably played as large a part as Bob Moog in the development of the modern synthesizer. Smith's Sequential Circuits created many revered synths, including the Prophet 5 ,the first microprocessor-based synth. Smith also proposed the MIDI standard in 1981, which has been incorporated into nearly every synth in the last 25 years.

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Music

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• polyevolver
• dave
• smith
• synthesizer
• keyboard
• innovator

[Fnordblaster]

This guy makes some awesome machines.

[dondorward2010]

this guy is a genius along with bob moog and the engineers that created andromeda a6

[ozzlanda]

Haahaha is he reaaaallly..... god I would like to meet him.. he would be happy to know I just put a deposit down on a Poly Evolver... I'm wetting my pants in anticipation.

[HALEYeww]

yeaahhh :D

[spiek]

That is so cool...

[HALEYeww]

don't be a dick about it!

jeez.

haha

[chickennoodle35]

he used to be a musician in college

and yeah he does know alot

hes teaching me alot too

ya know how?

hes mah dad!

[PimpMyFahrrad]

Dave Smith is remarkable engineer - not a musician. But I think he knows enough, to make impressive instruments.