From tonysounds@yahoo.com Mon Oct 24 09:09:41 2005
Subject:Re: Saturday Night Live 10/22/05 - Keyboard?

The issue being "discussed" was POLYPHONY, not Memory. Thus, I stand by what I said.
T

abwdds@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 10/24/2005 3:42:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
tonysounds@yahoo.com writes:

Not exactly: Oberheim had its 2 and 4 voice synths out
before the Prophet; my favorite synth of all time, the
Yamaha CS80 was before the Prophet, and the Polymoogs
were there too. Here's a quick timeline of popular
poly synths.....

...I believe that both the Yamaha CS-80 and the Prophet-5 were introduced at
the same NAMM show (Winter, 1978). Even though the CS-80 had a phenomenal
sound and velocity/aftertouch, it was only programmable in that it had 2
complete miniature sets of panel switches under a panel that duplicated the front
panel, but it had no electronic memory of any kind for remembering
settings...and it weighed 220 lbs !! The Oberheim 2,4, and 8 voice were programmable
to some extent, but not for all of the controls. Indeed, the Prophet-5
was the only synth that had every voltage controlled knob "remembered" by a
digital memory....and that's why it became a huge overnight hit...every on-call
keyboard player had to have one (I got a lot of gigs sight un-seen because I
owned one). Because of the P5, the next NAMM show had the debut of the
Roland Jupiter-8 and the Oberheim OB-X...both excellent machines as well. But
indeed, the P-5 was the first of its kind. A

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