Dave Smith is known as the pioneer of the first polyphonic and microprocessor-controlled synthesizer, the industry-changing Prophet 5, and later the driving force behind the generation of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) specification, which has since become standard to all modern synthesizers. He coined the acronym in 1981 and presented the idea of a Universal Synthesizer Interface (USI) after meetings with Tom Oberheim and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi.

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  • Dave Smith is known as the pioneer of the first polyphonic and microprocessor-controlled synthesizer, the industry-changing Prophet 5, and later the driving force behind the generation of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) specification, which has since become standard to all modern synthesizers. He coined the acronym in 1981 and presented the idea of a Universal Synthesizer Interface (USI) after meetings with Tom Oberheim and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi. The plan was to create a common communications protocol between electronic instruments from different manufacturers around the world. The result was MIDI. MIDI was first publicly demonstrated at the Winter NAMM Show in 1983, when a Prophet-600 was successfully connected to a Roland Jupiter-6.
  • Dave Smith est un ingénieur américain connu comme un précurseur dans le domaine des synthétiseurs polyphoniques et un des concepteurs du système MIDI.
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  • Dave Smith is known as the pioneer of the first polyphonic and microprocessor-controlled synthesizer, the industry-changing Prophet 5, and later the driving force behind the generation of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) specification, which has since become standard to all modern synthesizers. He coined the acronym in 1981 and presented the idea of a Universal Synthesizer Interface (USI) after meetings with Tom Oberheim and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi.
  • Dave Smith est un ingénieur américain connu comme un précurseur dans le domaine des synthétiseurs polyphoniques et un des concepteurs du système MIDI.
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  • Dave Smith (engineer)
  • Dave Smith (ingénieur)
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