Music Technology
Electronic Musician “MIDI Sources”, p.108
Winter NAMM, Anaheim. Represented Sequential/Yamaha at MIDI Manufacturers Assn and Japan MIDI Standards Committee – MIDIFile technical summit.
1988.01 Sequential becomes Yamaha/DSD. – Product Planner.Product Planner Computer Music Instruments. YAMAHA/DSD Contributed Wavestation Wavesequencing (via Schottstaedt) and User Interface and a variety of sampling synthesizers and disk audio recording systems. They didn’t want the Prophet-3000. They did want the Wavestation, expecting it to be the next “FM.”
1988. 01 Sj starts NEW PAPYRUS MEDIA LAB, the concept being that videotape becomes the new papyrus
1987.12 Prophet-3000 Hard Disk Spec. Nice system. Never happened.
Just after completing the Prophet 3000 – its last hurrah– Sequential Engineering transcended this reality in the spaceship DSD, and roamed corporate etherspace in search of VLSI voice chips, digital filters, and high resolution DACs. Their journey took them deep into the creative vacuums of corporate politics. Not until it re-materialized in April of 89 as KORG R&D did it actually have access to the digital voicing technology enabling a new vector synthesizer to be created.