#“Father of MIDI” Dave Smith dies at 72
““Father of MIDI” Dave Smith dies at 72” Smith founded the synth company Sequential and built the first commercial polyphonic and microprocessor-controlled synthesizer, the Prophet-5. Still from “Sequential Prophet-5: The Legend Return,” a short video by Mark Wilcox and Tracy Wadley, uploaded to Youtube by Sequential. Dave Smith, a pioneer in synthesizer technology and…