DCP Productions Motif XS, Owner'S Manual

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G1 – Prophet T8 Brass
I had a Sequential Prophet T8, and man I wish I still did. It was
big, had wooden end panels, 76 weighted keys, and was velocity
sensitive. Big and beautiful. And it didn't sell that well.
Sequential's biggest hit was the Prophet 5, the first programmable
polyphonic synth released commercially. For reasons unclear even to
yours truly, the company felt it needed a successor to the Prophet 5.
And so it announced, two years before actual delivery, that the T8
was that successor. By the time the T8 appeared in 1983, the
Yamaha DX7 had taken over and the Korg M1 was on its way. Too
expensive for most consumers, and short on ooh-aah features like
reverb and delay, not to mention sample playback, the T8 was
doomed from the get-go.
It did sound awesome, however, essentially two Prophet 5's
packed into a single box, with all the Prophet features, a small-
memory sequencer (I used it to play the brass theme from "The Wild
Wild West" TV show during my club-days keyboard solo) and that
wonderful velocity-sensitive weighted keyboard which was later used
on the Synclavier system as a controller keyboard.
The big, bad, powerful Sequential Prophet T-8.