It's silly to try to minimize the impact of the Prophet 5 in making analog polysynths mainstream (especially in popular music), or the general impact of towerin

It's silly to try to minimize the impact of the Prophet 5 in making analog polysynths mainstream (especially in popular music), or the general impact of towering figures like Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim. I think of the 4/8-voice as predecessors to later analog polysynths (including models from Sequential, Oberheim, etc.) because they were more like a collection of mono (SEM) modules that you could play polyphonically. The Korg Mono/Poly and even the DSI Tetra are a bit like that too (and kind of fun to play polyphonically in voice cycling mode where every voice is a bit different.) We are amazingly fortunate to have modern incarnations of Sequential and Oberheim making amazing instruments, from the Prophet 5 reissue (and affordable/portable Take 5) to the upcoming OB-X8.