The Prophet Remote is an oddity easily stumbled upon in music shops and the like. It was designed as a strap-on remote keyboard for the Prophet-5. That's right, now the keyboardist can join the ranks of the hip-swayin' and hair-tossin' guitarists at the front of the stage! The Remote connects to the Prophet-5 via a 20 foot long cable designed to interface with only the P-5.

The Prophet Remote has controllers in the hand grip for pitch bending, LFO modulation and volume or filter cutoff. There are also program / bank select buttons for loading up different patches. So if you have a Prophet-5 and you're willing to subject it to live use - and you're brave enough to leave it alone on stage while you prance around with your band-mates - then the Remote is your ticket to glory! The Remote was not a commercial success for Sequential back in the day and is essentially unused to this day.

1 VISITOR COMMENTS

Jake

October 31, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

I thought Geoff Downes used this keyboard when he played with Asia.

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