citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message dave smith instruments founded 2002 headquarters 1527 stockton street san francisco california key people dave smith founder products musical instruments website www.davesmithinstruments.com dave smith instruments is an american company based in san francisco california which manufactures electronic musical instruments . the company was founded in 2002 by dave smith best known as the founder of sequential circuits and lead designer of its prophet 5 synthesizer as well as for his work on midi . contents 1 history 2 products 3 awards 4 references 5 external links history edit many concepts and technologies previously used in smith s sequential circuits designs have factored into dave smith instruments new products along with completely new designs . the prophet 08 and prophet 12 share the name of some of sequential circuits most successful synthesizers and the evolver series shares vector synthesis technology first released by sequential in smith s own prophet vs in 1986 . 1 in 2009 smith announced that he was collaborating with roger linn the inventor of the first drum machine to use digital samples to design a new drum machine called tempest which would utilize analog synthesis . the production version of tempest was unveiled at the winter namm show in january 2012 . 2 in 2015 the company released the prophet 6 the first instrument in over 30 years to bear the sequential name . the name had been returned to smith the previous year by its previous owner yamaha . the following year he collaborated with tom oberheim to produce the ob 6 . products edit 2002 evolver tabletop analog digital synthesizer 2004 poly evolver analog digital synthesizer module 2005 polyevolver keyboard analog digital keyboard synthesizer 2006 evolver keyboard analog digital keyboard synthesizer 2007 prophet 08 8 voice analog keyboard synthesizer 2008 prophet 08 desktop 8 voice analog synthesizer module same engine as the prophet 08 keyboard 2009 mopho monophonic tabletop analog synthesizer 2009 tetra 4 voice tabletop analog synthesizer 2010 mopho keyboard monophonic keyboard synthesizer 2011 tempest analog drum machine and synthesizer 2012 mopho x4 4 voice analog keyboard synthesizer 2013 prophet 12 12 voice hybrid keyboard synthesizer 2013 mopho se monophonic keyboard synthesizer 2014 prophet 12 desktop 12 voice hybrid synthesizer module same engine as the prophet 12 keyboard 2014 pro 2 4 oscillator mono hybrid keyboard synthesizer 2014 dave smith modular eurorack modules for a modular synthesizer 2015 prophet 6 6 voice analog keyboard synthesizer . this instrument is noteworthy for being the first synthesizer since the early 80 s to bear the sequential name which was returned to smith by former owner yamaha . 2015 prophet 6 desktop 6 voice analog synthesizer module same engine as the prophet 6 keyboard 2016 ob 6 6 voice analog keyboard synthesizer created in collaboration with tom oberheim evolver 2002 evolver keyboard 2003 prophet 08 2007 mopho 2009 mopho keyboard 2010 tetra 2009 tempest analog drum machine and synthesizer 2011 prophet 12 module 2014 dave smith modular 2014 pro 2 2014 sequential prophet 6 2015 awards edit prophet 08 key buy award keyboard magazine november 2007 musikmesse international press mipa award march 2008 musiciplayers wiho award 2008 evolver and evolver keyboard key buy award keyboard magazine march 2003 key buy award keyboard magazine august 2006 musicplayers wiho award 2006 poly evolver keyboard future music 2006 ace award tec award nomination mix magazine 2006 technical excellence & creativity in the category of outstanding technical achievement musical instrument technology . synthesizer of the year award electronic musician magazine 2006 most psychedelic electronic instrument 2005 psychedelickitchen.org 2005 references edit poly evolver steve howell sound on sound mar 2006 dave smith instruments tempest paul nagle sound on sound feb 2012 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to dave smith instruments . http www.davesmithinstruments.com about retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dave smith instruments & oldid 743700881 categories synthesizer manufacturing companiesmanufacturing companies based in san franciscohidden categories articles needing additional references from february 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent 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