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Here's a quote from Dave Smith's website.

 "After Sequential, Dave was President of DSD, Inc, an R&D division 
of Yamaha, where he worked on physical modeling synthesis and 
software synthesizer concepts"


Rainbow Jimmy

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "spaceanimals" <alciere@m...> 
wrote:
> Here's a quote from Dave Smith's website.
> 
>  "After Sequential, Dave was President of DSD, Inc, an R&D 
division 
> of Yamaha, where he worked on physical modeling synthesis and 
> software synthesizer concepts"
> 
> 
> Rainbow Jimmy

Jup...AN1x is modeled after Prophet 5...and so is the Nordlead 1/2...

Hi Tom,

>Jup...AN1x is modeled after Prophet 5...and so is the Nordlead 1/2...

Take "modeled after" with a grain of salt, though.  A lot has changed since the early '80s, and if the folks at Sequential were starting over, and subtractive analog synths were again the hot product of the year, they would probably do things a little different the second time around.  Hence, the extensions that synths like the AN1x, Virus, and Nord Lead have over their predecessors.

And the Prophet 5 was, itself "modeled after" (in the pre-digital sense of the term) the Minimoog to a great extent.  One might even argue that it was a better polyphonic Minimoog than the Memorymoog.

Regards,

-BW
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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Wahler <bruce@a...> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> >Jup...AN1x is modeled after Prophet 5...and so is the Nordlead 
1/2...
> 
> Take "modeled after" with a grain of salt, though. 

Of course. Dave Smith produced a soft-synth after all, and i am sure 
that one is also "modeled after". Nontheless all these synths have 
some good features that you can only find in Dave Smith´a´likes.

Look at the Evolver...;)

> And the Prophet 5 was, itself "modeled after" (in the pre-digital 
sense of the term) the Minimoog to a great extent.  One might even 
argue that it was a better polyphonic Minimoog than the Memorymoog.

Spitzfindigkeiten, as we say in German. You can also argue than that 
the "Model T" from Ford was the best car, since it was first...
 
Recently i read on a german synth-forum that the AN200 sounds 
flat...guess they never tried some of the patches laying around in 
our file-section...;)