Sequential Circuits Prophet T8

The Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 was an 8-voice analog polyphonic synthesizer released in 1984, one that succeeded the popular Prophet-5 and Prophet-10 keyboards. It came with full MIDI implementation and added touch sensitivity.

Tony Banks was known to have owned a Prophet T8, and probably used it on albums such as Invisible Touch but to a lesser extent compared to other synths he had around him at the time. Already a user of the Prophet-10, he found that the T8 somewhat lacked the drone setting which he had used to great effect on "Mama" and other tracks.

Quotes on the Prophet T8
"'I do own a Prophet T8. I wasn’t that keen on it because it had a piano weighted keyboard and I didn’t find it as friendly as the others for some reason or other and I must have used it on something. I think if we looked on the track sheets we would probably find I used it on something.' (The Waiting Room interview, 2015)"