What synth did Paul McCartney use on Wonderful Christmastime?
Sir Paul and The Beatles were some of the earliest experiment with sampling, loops, and synthesizers. The Beatles Bible has the answer about Paul's classic 1979 Christmas song:
Written on a "boiling hot day in July", it was based upon a synthesizer riff played on a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5.
There is a true believer out there who has created a Prophet-5 tribute site dedicated to the machine. There is an unreasonable amount of info there about how the Prophet-5 works.
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