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BLAST FROM THE PAST

Yamaha SY22/TG33

The story of Yamaha’s brief foray into vector synthesis is likewise a story of the demise of one of the greats – Dave Smith’s Sequential Circuits, the company that begat the legendary Prophet-5 polysynth.

Sequential had ridden high on the success of the Prophet-5, from its release in 1978 through the mid-80s,

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