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Oberheim Electronics OB-8
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Description

The Oberheim OB-8 is an 8 voice analogue polyphonic synthesizer. It has a digital bus system, offering control over other Oberheim synths, sequencer and drummachine. It has 2 oscillators per voice (saw, pulse, triangle) a switchable 2 or 4 pole VCF with ADSR, an LFO offering triangle square, ramp, and S&H, and an 8 note arpeggiator with external sync option. The synth has 120 patch program slots in memory, 12 split programs and 12 double programs. It has external cassette storage and, if the synth is retrofitted with a MIDI option, it can do a SysEx data dump.

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Oberheim Is Back - OB-X8 Synthesizer

...Designs, Marcus Ryle and partner Michel Doidic worked at Oberheim Electronics, where they headed the development of the Oberheim DSX, OB8, Xpander and Matrix 12. next to that he has been induced into the keyboard hall of fame for his work on ADAT: Line 6 is proud to announce that co-founder Marcus Ryle has been...

Oberheim Is Back - OB-X8 Synthesizer

Yep. I sold my p5 3.2 after working on the rev4. I sold my OB8 and vintage racked 2 Voice after working on the X8. Primarily I produce artists and run a recording studio and don’t like overlap in gear, especially when the new stuff sounds the same or better. A friend brought an obx...

Plug-in deal discussion & general chatter

...just had a coffee stained Melotron while Arturia had dozens of classic synths. Other than the Prophet5 and my OB8 I can't comment about quality of emulations. The Prophet 5 IMO is close. The OB-xa is pretty laughable even though it's not a direct comparison. Is there enough...

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