{"id":158892,"date":"2022-06-05T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=158892"},"modified":"2022-06-05T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:23:16","slug":"dave-smith-dies-synthesizer-pioneer-whose-instruments-backed-michael-jackson-kraftwerk-and-more-was-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/dave-smith-dies-synthesizer-pioneer-whose-instruments-backed-michael-jackson-kraftwerk-and-more-was-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Smith Dies: Synthesizer Pioneer Whose Instruments Backed Michael Jackson, Kraftwerk, And More Was 72"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dave Smith, an electronics pioneer whose creations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Prophet 5 synthesizer revolutionized popular music, died in Detroit. He was 72 and experienced a heart attack while attending the Movement electronic music festival, which ran May 28-30.<\/p>\n
Smith began creating instruments in the mid-1970s while working in the aerospace industry. He bought a Minimoog synthesizer and built his own sequencer to program it. That became the Model 600, which allowed musicians to program melodic and rhythmic patterns.<\/p>\n
He founded his own company, Sequential Circuits, in 1974, and it is still operating in San Francisco at the time of his death.<\/p>\n