Smith, Dave (1950-2022)

Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72

Unlike a piano or organ, early synthesizers, like the Moog and ARP, could generate only one note at a time. Shaping a particular tone involved setting multiple knobs, switches or dials, and trying to reproduce that tone afterward meant writing down all the settings and hoping to get similar results the next time. The Prophet-5, […]