6:13 - Perhaps the real acid test of any analog synth is in the cutoff and resonance, and this sound right here shows you just how pure this OB is. Incredible.
@@jamesmeeker6933 Well, they're definitely quite important, and what gives a synth at this level it's identity. Let's just agree this machine gets an A+ in both. :-)
@@PhilAndersonOutside I think it's exactly what I like. I was actually chopping that Tom Oberheim will come up with something like this synth. I just spent a little bit too much money in past 5 months or so for the stuff I've always wanted, so this one came as a surprise to me. But I think I will have no other option than pre-order it because I'm a huge fan of pure Oberheim sound. And to have 3 OB synths in one machine, that is like dream come true.
Great ear! Steve made heavy use of the OB-8, Xpander and Matrix-12 on many early albums, both rich pads as you noted, but also in his complex sequences you can hear the Oberheim sound, such as on Life Sequence. There's no reason to believe this machine won't be capable of producing similar sounds in the right hands. I know Steve owns a modular analog synth from Synthesizers, but it wouldn't surprise me if he has one of these already.
It's great to see a top tier analog poly being released by an American legend. Enjoyed the patches and demo, especially the One Night In Bangkok riff, now I need to go listen to that jam;)
It does really have a fantastic sound, its own texture. But luckily for me, I prefer the sound of the Prophet, so I don't find myself wanting to break the bank on this. I hope everyone who loves this gets to have their fun, though - options are wonderful to have.
@@mrmostlyharmless Got OB-6 and it's a great synth. But I view it as a hybrid, not pure Oberheim. Tom couldn't put his full logo on it because he didn't own full rights to it, and it's a cross between Sequential technology and Oberheim oscillators and filters. You might get some of the sounds that you get from old Oberheim synths and OB-XA - but you must spend lot of time tweaking. On OB-X8, it's all right there for you. I am more of a player than tweaker, so I prefer to select the sound bank and have it right there instead of messing with the controls. So I think OB-X8 is the right tool for what I think I need. What do you think?
So glad I am now the proud owner of the OBX-8 it is astounding the filter !!! such a well made synth , the keys are the best I have played on any synth.
had the chance to play this beast at superbooth... it is fantastic.. after playing this thing, all other synths I tried out felt and sounded like toys...
The patch starting at 7:30 is pure OB heaven. When the filter LFO closes down that's what I hear in my head when people talk about the "melancholy" side of OB's. This one will be a classic for sure.
That haunting detuned tone and rasping filter like larva being slowly spewed from a volcano is just insane . I must say thou it does sound a little less beefier than the orig ob x at times, an observation not a criticism 🙂🙂🙂
Watching this video was part of the reason I pulled the trigger on the OB-X8. Totally glad I did as it is an absolutely amazing synth. The Obie sits below my other all time favorite the Rev4 Prophet 10.
Got mine yesterday. Can't stop playing it. There is so much richness in the oszillators and the SEM filter. You don't even need FX. Just a wonderful instrument 🔥🎶🔥
@@N-trepid1 Ceeeeee oh oh ellllll!!! Two Obx's love that. There is a sinus head resonance, organic light and massive, yet utterly organic, always seeming to buoy up the humanistic ranges of sound, and at the same time other worldly ... its just the beginning, so much music to make and so lucky with so much to appreciate and get to be inspired by/enjoy.
Oberheims truly have some of the most amazing pad sound effects they are so spacey and futuristic awesome 😎 work you are really creative. Let's party like it's 2099. Keep making more super cool SyFi 🎵 music like this it's magical.Thank you for this post. The Oberheim synth will be here for eternity.
Man, this really does have that "sizzle" as it has been so aptly described. Can't say my OB6 has the same amount of sizzle, but it lives in the same neighborhood, IMO...and I can buy 2 OB6 modules for the price of this. Which doesn't mean I will, but it's good to have choices, eh? Great work on the patches and thanks for the demo...cheers...
I sometimes wish I had been born in the 70’s/80’s. Growing up with Rush, Floyd, The Police, etc, and having gear like the Taurus pedals, Jupiter 8, and Oberheims. This would be an awesome addition to my little home studio, live out that dream and spend hours messing with the dials, making synth sounds that could be bright and crisp, or deep enough to shake the room. But it would take me quite a bit of saving up to buy one of these..
I was busy playing guitar in bands during this era and got into synths about ten years ago for film scoring and this just sounds incredible now I understand the OB sound much better well worth it if you are going premium 🎸
Im in that queue, late June/1st week July I'm told. I'm going to closely watch demo videos because I have yet to see a video showcase the sheer heft and force of the original SEM-voice instruments, which go up to the vintage OB_X. I own a TwoVoice, I know the heft. If I don't hear that vibe I'll pull out, making you closer :)
The sound from that synth is a thing of beauty. Those Oberheims just seem to have so much 'warmth', 'bite' and 'fizz'. It sure helps to be able to demo it like you have. Great upload!
I've just come back to this demo, playing it for my wife, hoping to get her onboard for such an expensive purchase. Of course, she doesn't care, but I sure do. Just beautiful, man.
Now if Tom Oberheim can just design and make a new version of the Xpander I'd be all over it !! They really need to make a new Xpander !! Come on guys...if you can give us this beautiful synth...then you can give us a new Matrix / Xpander. Please do it !!
@@paulschilling2996 Nice job Paul! Thanks for the Structures comments OB friends, My name is on the list! Never a day that goes by when I am not carving on my original 1984 Xpander ( just overhauled at Rosen Sound LA) or OB8!
This thing sounds amazing. I recently purchased the prophet sequential 10. Amazing synths but after listening to this, I’m sold that this should be right next to the prophet sequential 10 in the studio. Love the all around quality this OB. 1.) Still want the OB-6, does this capture that iconic irreplaceable sound? 2.) How would this rate next to the Moog One 16 voice analog synth?
I don’t have an OB-6 but I do have a P6 and P5rev4, and they are quite different in tonal character and overall feel. The Moog One is so different from the OBX8 in architecture and sound that it’s hard to even compare! My theory is that the more complex you make a synth, the harder it is to achieve the huge sweet spot of the P5 and OB’s.
I have an OB-6 and can't wait for comparisons, which hopefully we get soon now that they're shipping. I'm guessing there are some key basic tonal differences just due to the oscillators. The OB-X8 inverts the square wave when you select saw and square at the same time. The OB-6 can only blend between saw and square. The OB-6 can only do triangle on VCO 2, whereas you can do triangle on both oscs on the X8. Then again the OB-6 can blend between triangle and sawtooth, so there's that. And of course the OB-6 has a sub-osc, which adds another dimension to the core tone. When it comes to the 12db SEM filter, I haven't heard anything in these demos that makes me feel like I'll be missing something by just having the OB-6. And not being able to sweep from LP through notch to HP on the X8 is a let down. So I think the main advantages for getting the X8 lie in that 24db Xa filter and probably some increased modulation options, and maybe a bigger range on the cross mod, as well as the oscillators that will be able to make some tones that the OB-6 can't. The FX on the OB-6 are just ok, but if you use them subtly, you can bring some extra life into the sound without it being too obvious. The X8 will likely sound more lush on its own without FX. I'm curious about the vintage knob on the X8 and how much it's being used in these demos. It makes a dramatic difference in the OB-6. A total game changer when it came out in the firmware update. But really we won't know for sure until we start hearing some detailed comparisons on YT. Hopefully soon!
I have the SonicProjects OP-X plugin (Using it with Logic Pro) this synth is so user friendly! It has a nice layout, and is one of my favorite synths😀👍
@@synthuser3656 Me too, one of my fav VSTi's the OP-X, sounds very 'true' as a plug-in ... and that's how it'll end, as no way have £5k sloshing around in my bank acct.(!) 😁👍🎹🎶🍻
Fantastic Instrument!!..I sold my OBXa in 2001 for $1000 ..It was mint in spite of being on the road for a long time.. Anvil case preserved it well.. I paid $4850 for it in 1981.. It always worked flawlessly! Loved the Prophet V and the Jupiter 8 but to me this was the best.. Norm
There is no way to manually set where each specific voice is panned. But lots of options to set how / how much and why the voices are panned ;-) For example how: PingPong or 4L/4R or Splayed or Spread…and how much: Full, Half, Quarter, or Mono (no panning). These settings are saved with each preset.
The method I’ve used in the past is to get both, try them side by side for a while, and then sell one…even if lose a couple hundred that way, to me it’s worth making the best decision
@@paulschilling2996 This method is a disaster in the making - I buy two synths intending to sell one, and then I keep both. And then I do that again. And again... If I were deciding now - I'd get the OBX8. It has octave transpose, stereo outputs, onboard arpeggiator... I know these seem like small issues, but the P10 ended up with a bunch of feature creep, whereas the OBX8 seems to have a lot of the 'nice to have' features up front. Soundwise, I think they're fairly equivalent (P10 v OBX8). I'm not sure if the OBX8 has a Page 2 set of settings, so I'm not sure how much deeper it goes than the front panel. That said, the variety of filters is a plus. For everyone who says the REV1/2 and REV3 filters sound different in the P10, I have no idea what they're talking about, I've never heard a difference between them at all. The resonance in them sounds about maybe a half semi-tone off. Anyway - I'd get the OBX8 first... if you still desire the P10, you can grab one used later for a decent price no doubt.
This video cost me $5000
This video saved me $5000 🙄
Amazing. No doubt this is one of the best sounding synths ever made...!
6:13 - Perhaps the real acid test of any analog synth is in the cutoff and resonance, and this sound right here shows you just how pure this OB is. Incredible.
Or 4:39 - absolutely wonderful.
Honestly, the oscillators are as important as the filter.
@@jamesmeeker6933 Well, they're definitely quite important, and what gives a synth at this level it's identity. Let's just agree this machine gets an A+ in both. :-)
@@PhilAndersonOutside I think it's exactly what I like. I was actually chopping that Tom Oberheim will come up with something like this synth.
I just spent a little bit too much money in past 5 months or so for the stuff I've always wanted, so this one came as a surprise to me. But I think I will have no other option than pre-order it because I'm a huge fan of pure Oberheim sound. And to have 3 OB synths in one machine, that is like dream come true.
I hear a nod to Steve Roach on the OB-8 4 pole patch at 1:05. That sound is one of the reasons why I want this synth. Well done
Oh yeah, Structures From Silence. Sweet, sweet sound.
Great ear! Steve made heavy use of the OB-8, Xpander and Matrix-12 on many early albums, both rich pads as you noted, but also in his complex sequences you can hear the Oberheim sound, such as on Life Sequence.
There's no reason to believe this machine won't be capable of producing similar sounds in the right hands. I know Steve owns a modular analog synth from Synthesizers, but it wouldn't surprise me if he has one of these already.
@@martinmohyla I think I still have that CD laying around
Wasn't expecting to hear that, oooof
1:05 (Structures From Silence) S.R.
¡simplemente estructura hermosa!
Like a cleansing bath in the purest synth sounds, nothing else like it, pure bliss! Thank you!
It's great to see a top tier analog poly being released by an American legend. Enjoyed the patches and demo, especially the One Night In Bangkok riff, now I need to go listen to that jam;)
Yeah it nails that sound!!
@@MrMarco33333 Thats GX1 Territory
The BEST demo anyone's put out so far!
There's something about the sound of that fizz going through a high pass filter that is just delicious on this synth.
It does really have a fantastic sound, its own texture. But luckily for me, I prefer the sound of the Prophet, so I don't find myself wanting to break the bank on this. I hope everyone who loves this gets to have their fun, though - options are wonderful to have.
This is paradise come alive to my ears. No other synth sounds like Oberheim.
@@mitsanut5869 ob6?
@@mrmostlyharmless Got OB-6 and it's a great synth. But I view it as a hybrid, not pure Oberheim.
Tom couldn't put his full logo on it because he didn't own full rights to it, and it's a cross between Sequential technology and Oberheim oscillators and filters.
You might get some of the sounds that you get from old Oberheim synths and OB-XA - but you must spend lot of time tweaking.
On OB-X8, it's all right there for you.
I am more of a player than tweaker, so I prefer to select the sound bank and have it right there instead of messing with the controls.
So I think OB-X8 is the right tool for what I think I need.
What do you think?
@@mitsanut5869 DSI designed this one as well.
@@mitsanut5869 if you are paying $5,000 just to use presets on this, you’d be wasting your money.
So glad I am now the proud owner of the OBX-8 it is astounding the filter !!! such a well made synth , the keys are the best I have played on any synth.
Congrats!!
had the chance to play this beast at superbooth... it is fantastic.. after playing this thing, all other synths I tried out felt and sounded like toys...
The patch starting at 7:30 is pure OB heaven. When the filter LFO closes down that's what I hear in my head when people talk about the "melancholy" side of OB's. This one will be a classic for sure.
That haunting detuned tone and rasping filter like larva being slowly spewed from a volcano is just insane . I must say thou it does sound a little less beefier than the orig ob x at times, an observation not a criticism 🙂🙂🙂
Watching this video was part of the reason I pulled the trigger on the OB-X8. Totally glad I did as it is an absolutely amazing synth. The Obie sits below my other all time favorite the Rev4 Prophet 10.
i think i want this more then a moog one, because it sounds better.
Plus you can save $3000
@@MJ-tg6wb Still for 5000 i wont feel any creativity.
Better then any behringer for sure.
Building my own poly right now.
Wonderful demo. Really love the last sound; I didn't know an Oberheim could sound like that. Also, kudos for throwing in 'One Night in Bangkok.'
This sounds absolutely amazing. Hopefully with the restoration of the Oberheim name, we'll be getting some new synths/ideas from Tom and team.
At 1:07 the way your C major inversion blended in blew my mind. I have to repair my OBXa now just to see if I can get that same blended sound.
Got mine yesterday. Can't stop playing it. There is so much richness in the oszillators and the SEM filter. You don't even need FX. Just a wonderful instrument 🔥🎶🔥
Couldn't agree more!
The textures from an Oberheim synth are just fabulous. There's nothing else like it!
Thank you thank you thank you for these demos Paul! This is a beautiful sight to behold.
Wow, dancing in the sheets! Absolutely cosmic sound, had to watch images of the universe to digest the depth of beauty! Thank you Tom!!!
1999 to Dancing in the sheets! Now add some "The Time" OBX heavy synths cuts and drop the mic. They oftentimes used two OBX's ;)
@@N-trepid1 Ceeeeee oh oh ellllll!!! Two Obx's love that. There is a sinus head resonance, organic light and massive, yet utterly organic, always seeming to buoy up the humanistic ranges of sound, and at the same time other worldly ... its just the beginning, so much music to make and so lucky with so much to appreciate and get to be inspired by/enjoy.
Oberheims truly have some of the most amazing pad sound effects they are so spacey and futuristic awesome 😎 work you are really creative. Let's party like it's 2099. Keep making more super cool SyFi 🎵 music like this it's magical.Thank you for this post. The Oberheim synth will be here for eternity.
What a gorgeous sounding synth! Thank you Tom! Now to figure out what to mortgage... 🤣👍Thanks to Phil for the demo and patching! 👍
Smashing that you are involved in the patch design, Paul :)
Great job on Structures of Silence!
Great demo, Paul! Best I've heard so far.
Thanks! Big fan of your music!
@@paulschilling2996 Thanks so much!
props for the Shalamar at 8:53
Great work! Thanks for this, Paul. Mine is pre-ordered, and I cannot wait to receive it. :)
nice, Steve Roach Structures from silence at 1:07
Was that One Night In Bangkok? Haven't heard of that song in years... adding to Spotify now!
Man, this really does have that "sizzle" as it has been so aptly described. Can't say my OB6 has the same amount of sizzle, but it lives in the same neighborhood, IMO...and I can buy 2 OB6 modules for the price of this. Which doesn't mean I will, but it's good to have choices, eh?
Great work on the patches and thanks for the demo...cheers...
Great demo man. Looking forward to putting one of these on top of the Rhodes MK8!
This is true Oberheim power. +5 points for One Night in Bangkok riff. :)
Magnificent machine! Score one for Oberheim!!!
😉👍🏻❤️
✌🏻😎🎹🌴🌞
Freaking GLORIOUS.
I sometimes wish I had been born in the 70’s/80’s. Growing up with Rush, Floyd, The Police, etc, and having gear like the Taurus pedals, Jupiter 8, and Oberheims. This would be an awesome addition to my little home studio, live out that dream and spend hours messing with the dials, making synth sounds that could be bright and crisp, or deep enough to shake the room. But it would take me quite a bit of saving up to buy one of these..
Hi Paul. Great to see you enjoying yourself. May pick one of these up in the future(Kraftwerk freak we spoke recently).😀
Maybe the best synth ever.
character, about time, personality., and modern features. A+++++
Great demo - it sounds fantastic. Thank you!
Thanks for the demo! It brings back many sweet memories 🙂
This demo is top notch.
The fidelity and stereo width are startling.
Steve Roach begins at 1:10......beautiful emulation. Great stuff!
I'm not going to complain about how this demo includes one song ("1999") which I suspect influenced another ("Dancing in the Sheets").
I was busy playing guitar in bands during this era and got into synths about ten years ago for film scoring and this just sounds incredible now I understand the OB sound much better well worth it if you are going premium 🎸
Fabulous, fabulous sound!
Its the sound pallet of the universe its self...
In the pre-order queue at Sweetwater. ETA September.
Im in that queue, late June/1st week July I'm told. I'm going to closely watch demo videos because I have yet to see a video showcase the sheer heft and force of the original SEM-voice instruments, which go up to the vintage OB_X. I own a TwoVoice, I know the heft. If I don't hear that vibe I'll pull out, making you closer :)
This thing sounds fucking fantastic. At five bands it's a hard sell but I'd buy it if I could afford it.
The sound from that synth is a thing of beauty. Those Oberheims just seem to have so much 'warmth', 'bite' and 'fizz'.
It sure helps to be able to demo it like you have. Great upload!
Gorgeous in so many ways.
I've just come back to this demo, playing it for my wife, hoping to get her onboard for such an expensive purchase.
Of course, she doesn't care, but I sure do. Just beautiful, man.
This just in:. ...Roland Phantom sales have trailed off wildly!
Source? And how would this relate to the overpriced OBX8?
No Plugin sounds like this.☺️
OP-X Pro II
This sounds beautiful!
IMO, best demo yet!
Great.Beautiful. I'll start saving...
I'm at a loss for words. I have found my true love. Obsession comes to mind.
Wow, that patch at 11:33! 🤩
I'd like to see if it can do the cascading voices effect like the beginning of Too much time on my Hands by Styx.
Best demo yet!
Good job Paul!
Vangelis approves
Great sounds as always Paul!
Now if Tom Oberheim can just design and make a new version of the Xpander I'd be all over it !! They really need to make a new Xpander !! Come on guys...if you can give us this beautiful synth...then you can give us a new Matrix / Xpander. Please do it !!
I've been eyeballing an OB-6 for the longest time but now Oberheim does this, what do I do now?
sounds badass
Patches sounds excellent! Thank you!!!
Wow. Sounds glorious!
absolutely fantastic!
Hey Mark!
Nice demo. Thanks. 😎
Idk Im still not convinced, it has a little more bottom end sure but it doesnt have that fluttery feeling the OB-6 has
Finally a demo without 20 minutes of brassy sounds!
synth heaven, about time.
Nice ode to Structures from Silence / Something in Tears ::: may the Roach abide in us all ;)
Well said!!
@@paulschilling2996 Nice job Paul! Thanks for the Structures comments OB friends, My name is on the list! Never a day that goes by when I am not carving on my original 1984 Xpander ( just overhauled at Rosen Sound LA) or OB8!
Thrilled to hear from you Steve! Your music, starting with Structures, has had a profound impact on my life.
and the last patch at the end is a nod to Quiet Friend
I’m Getting One.
what a great sounds!
That left hand chord at 1:10 is where the magic is.
Thank you for this, Paul.
This thing sounds amazing. I recently purchased the prophet sequential 10. Amazing synths but after listening to this, I’m sold that this should be right next to the prophet sequential 10 in the studio. Love the all around quality this OB.
1.) Still want the OB-6, does this capture that iconic irreplaceable sound?
2.) How would this rate next to the Moog One 16 voice analog synth?
I don’t have an OB-6 but I do have a P6 and P5rev4, and they are quite different in tonal character and overall feel. The Moog One is so different from the OBX8 in architecture and sound that it’s hard to even compare! My theory is that the more complex you make a synth, the harder it is to achieve the huge sweet spot of the P5 and OB’s.
I have an OB-6 and can't wait for comparisons, which hopefully we get soon now that they're shipping. I'm guessing there are some key basic tonal differences just due to the oscillators. The OB-X8 inverts the square wave when you select saw and square at the same time. The OB-6 can only blend between saw and square. The OB-6 can only do triangle on VCO 2, whereas you can do triangle on both oscs on the X8. Then again the OB-6 can blend between triangle and sawtooth, so there's that. And of course the OB-6 has a sub-osc, which adds another dimension to the core tone. When it comes to the 12db SEM filter, I haven't heard anything in these demos that makes me feel like I'll be missing something by just having the OB-6. And not being able to sweep from LP through notch to HP on the X8 is a let down. So I think the main advantages for getting the X8 lie in that 24db Xa filter and probably some increased modulation options, and maybe a bigger range on the cross mod, as well as the oscillators that will be able to make some tones that the OB-6 can't. The FX on the OB-6 are just ok, but if you use them subtly, you can bring some extra life into the sound without it being too obvious. The X8 will likely sound more lush on its own without FX. I'm curious about the vintage knob on the X8 and how much it's being used in these demos. It makes a dramatic difference in the OB-6. A total game changer when it came out in the firmware update. But really we won't know for sure until we start hearing some detailed comparisons on YT. Hopefully soon!
Sweet! Nice demo.
Hey, nice vid! CN you point me in the direction where you got those replacement knobs?
I have the SonicProjects OP-X plugin (Using it with Logic Pro) this synth is so user friendly! It has a nice layout, and is one of my favorite synths😀👍
I have this one too and I love it! But for sure the OB-X8 sounds fantastic! A bit pricier 'though... ;-)
@@synthuser3656 I completely agree! Thanks for the input😀👍
@@synthuser3656 Me too, one of my fav VSTi's the OP-X, sounds very 'true' as a plug-in ... and that's how it'll end, as no way have £5k sloshing around in my bank acct.(!) 😁👍🎹🎶🍻
Can this synth replicate the sound of Matrix 6? I like the Matrix 6 pads
Nice Steve Roach reference 😉
Sweet Stuff!
😎😎😎,,, love it, thank u, make more
Fantastic Instrument!!..I sold my OBXa in 2001 for $1000 ..It was mint in spite of being on the road for a long time.. Anvil case preserved it well.. I paid $4850 for it in 1981.. It always worked flawlessly! Loved the Prophet V and the Jupiter 8 but to me this was the best.. Norm
I want to see what's under the hood. Does that make me a pervert?
😉
1:05 Steve Roach!
What a phat ass synth !
Fantastic!! But 5 granny???? Yikes!
Hey Paul, sounds amazing. Can voices be individually panned?
There is no way to manually set where each specific voice is panned. But lots of options to set how / how much and why the voices are panned ;-) For example how: PingPong or 4L/4R or Splayed or Spread…and how much: Full, Half, Quarter, or Mono (no panning). These settings are saved with each preset.
I wish I could afford this synth. But Behringer gives me an option. This synth has such a great filter. The glissando sounds amazing.
whoa
SHE WILL BE MINE!
Structures from silence
4:44 was nice
czy istnieje coś takiego - boski syntezator, istnieje
How do you decide between a Prophet-10 and OB-X8?
The method I’ve used in the past is to get both, try them side by side for a while, and then sell one…even if lose a couple hundred that way, to me it’s worth making the best decision
With your ears or not at all
I'm personally waiting for Sequential to come out with a dual keyboard Prophet-10. I mean, you know...
@@paulschilling2996 This method is a disaster in the making - I buy two synths intending to sell one, and then I keep both. And then I do that again. And again...
If I were deciding now - I'd get the OBX8. It has octave transpose, stereo outputs, onboard arpeggiator... I know these seem like small issues, but the P10 ended up with a bunch of feature creep, whereas the OBX8 seems to have a lot of the 'nice to have' features up front.
Soundwise, I think they're fairly equivalent (P10 v OBX8). I'm not sure if the OBX8 has a Page 2 set of settings, so I'm not sure how much deeper it goes than the front panel. That said, the variety of filters is a plus.
For everyone who says the REV1/2 and REV3 filters sound different in the P10, I have no idea what they're talking about, I've never heard a difference between them at all. The resonance in them sounds about maybe a half semi-tone off.
Anyway - I'd get the OBX8 first... if you still desire the P10, you can grab one used later for a decent price no doubt.
@@MIDERA yes all of the OB-8’s Page 2 functions are there, plus a bunch of additional ones