Dave Smith (engineer)

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Dave Smith is an American audio engineer who first proposed the MIDI standard in 1981 in a paper to the Audio Engineering Society. The MIDI specification 1.0 was published in August 1983. Smith's company Sequential Circuits was started in 1974. In 1978, Sequential built the Prophet 5 — the first synthesizer to incorporate a microprocessor.

[edit] External links

• 2006 audio interview: Sequential Circuits, Korg, Yamaha, soft synths, and his new Evolver synths.
• Dave Smith: The father of MIDI — interview with Smith, from MacMusic
• Dave Smith Instruments
• The Dave Smith Ego Museum — includes brief history of Smith's involvement with synthesisers & MIDI
• Dave Smith Documentary