This video, via Richard Geere, demos the Sequential Circuits Prelude 4-in-1 keyboard.
The Prelude is an early 80’s orchestra synth, offering Piano, Organ, Brass and String sections. It offers full polyphony, but limited sound-shaping capabilities.
If you’ve used the Sequential Circuits Prelude, leave a comment and share your thoughts on it!
i would not call this a synth really. it is more of an organ.
back in the 80s, i owned a similar thing, a hohner string melody II (same as logan), mainly because polysynths still were out of reach. polysix & co made them disappear.
Those resonant brass sounds are pretty cool!
I have one of these. It’s very limited, but the sounds it makes are beautiful, like nothing else I own, hence why I keep it. It is huge though, and heavy. Wouldn’t gig with if for sure.
Dang it! When I first saw the word Sequential, I thought it was an article about the new Prophet 1 mono synth.
Is the Prophet 1 a real synth? Never heard mention of it.
Takes me back. My first synth. Bought it at Cintioli’s in Philadelphia for $550 in 1985 with some of my Bar Mitzvah money. Every Saturday I would lug it in to the back seat of my mother’s Cutlass Supreme (the roland spirit bass 30 in the trunk) and she’d dive me to the drummer’s house. It was heavy, but I thought it was supposed to be. Weren’t all synths!
I loved it at first, but I was embarrassed that it said piano, organ, strings…Traded it for JX-8P about two years later (and then that for an emax, and then that for D-50, that for a DX7II-FD (with e!) and then that for a STRAT!).
Great find and great demo, he really shows what’s possible with the synth. Also nice to see where some of my Soviet divide-down synths “borrowed” their ideas from. At times it reminded me a lot of the RMIF Opus.
This shows what the keyboardist’s mind was in the 80’s, someone who wanted to decorate acoustic instruments? Now a days, we want to create our own sounds.