January 2013: Technical Grammy (along with Ikutaro Kakehashi) for the creation of MIDI. September 2012: Keyboard Magazine Hall of Fame September 2005: Induction into the TECnology (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Hall of Fame at the AES show by Mix Foundation. October 1987: Received Audio Engineering Society (AES) Fellowship Award, for having made a valuable contribution to the advancement in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of its application in practice. References Further reading David Abernethy, The Prophet from Silicon Valley: The complete story of Sequential Circuits, A Morris AM Publishing New Zealand, 2015 Interviews "Oral History: Dave Smith explains pieces of his life story and career", NAMM Oral History Library, Jan 2005 "Dave Smith In His Own Words", Francis Preve, Keyboard Magazine, Jul 2012 Dave Smith: Sequential Circuits, Korg, Yamaha, soft synths, and his new Evolver synths., Gearwire.com, 2006 Dave Smith: The father of MIDI Mac Music, Oct 2003 Interview With Dave Smith KVR'' Episode 20 : Music Tech Pioneers III : Sequential Circuits : Rise, Fall, Return! DAWbench Radioshow, May 2022 External links Sequential 1950 births 2022 deaths Computer hardware engineers American inventors American audio engineers Analog electronics engineers People from St. Helena, California Engineers from California UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Inventors of musical instruments