Yeah, definitely. Although it almost sounds like a VA.Ingonator wrote: Anyway one synth i would really look forward to be emulated is the Alesis Andromeda A6.
Hehe, yeah, happens quite frequently in his posts.DuX wrote: Thanks Ingo for your wonderful posts!Not that you said something I didn't know, but it feels nice reading about it.
At least there was a beautiful 3rd party lib for Alchemy back then and still available also for Cakewalk Rapture & Dimension (full and LE versions)chk071 wrote:Ingonator wrote: Anyway one synth i would really look forward to be emulated is the Alesis Andromeda A6.
I've owned Xpander, the OBXa, Matrix 6 and 1000 and while nice there is maybe too much overlap with other IC based synths, not to mention between them. FourVoice/EightVoice SEM architecture is unique however. Discreet components they use in those things also sound unique. Moreover the FourVoice is impossible to buy while the others are, well, still accessible. You can pick up the Xpander quite readily and I've even seen a few Matrix 12's here and there. In contrast I've tried to buy a FourVoice before but I've only ever seen them twice and both times they were snatched up faster than I could refresh the page.Richard_Synapse wrote:Which ones did you try? Vintage Oberheims cover a wide range of different circuit topologies, some are full of Curtis (CEM) chips, usually with 24dB lowpass filters, while others like the SEM have "that" classic 12dB Oberheim state-variable filter inside (which I presume is what people associate with Oberheim sound, dunno though). I would expect most or all of the vintage models to sound very different from each other. So far the ones I have tried are all of the Curtis type, like the Matrix line, which I like soundwise.AnX wrote:Hopefully not. Obies sound dull as f**k to me. I've never understood the fascination. Personally, i'd like something else. Luckily, my opinion counts for nothing, so dont get ya panties in a knot
Richard
IMO anyway a huge portion of the Oberheim sound is the filters. There's a cream to them that I don't hear in Moog or Sequential etc. synths. Playing pads on the Oberheim Xpander just sounds to me better than Sequential etc.nevernamed wrote: I've owned Xpander, the OBXa, Matrix 6 and 1000 and while nice there is maybe too much overlap with other IC based synths, not to mention between them. FourVoice/EightVoice SEM architecture is unique however. Discreet components they use in those things also sound unique. Moreover the FourVoice is impossible to buy while the others are, well, still accessible. You can pick up the Xpander quite readily and I've even seen a few Matrix 12's here and there. In contrast I've tried to buy a FourVoice before but I've only ever seen them twice and both times they were snatched up faster than I could refresh the page.
In my opinion, and with the benefit of some experience now, the discreet component synths like the SEM just sound better. If someone could nail something like the legendary SEM it would really be something special. IC synths are a dime a dozen these days. Even in the vintage domain.
Yeah the Memorymoog is another synth that's quite rare and has a unique sound.machinesworking wrote:IMO anyway a huge portion of the Oberheim sound is the filters. There's a cream to them that I don't hear in Moog or Sequential etc. synths. Playing pads on the Oberheim Xpander just sounds to me better than Sequential etc.nevernamed wrote: I've owned Xpander, the OBXa, Matrix 6 and 1000 and while nice there is maybe too much overlap with other IC based synths, not to mention between them. FourVoice/EightVoice SEM architecture is unique however. Discreet components they use in those things also sound unique. Moreover the FourVoice is impossible to buy while the others are, well, still accessible. You can pick up the Xpander quite readily and I've even seen a few Matrix 12's here and there. In contrast I've tried to buy a FourVoice before but I've only ever seen them twice and both times they were snatched up faster than I could refresh the page.
In my opinion, and with the benefit of some experience now, the discreet component synths like the SEM just sound better. If someone could nail something like the legendary SEM it would really be something special. IC synths are a dime a dozen these days. Even in the vintage domain.
I'll never get whey there hasn't been a solid cross platform Memorymoog emulation though. That's a truly unique sounding synth that's hard to upkeep or get ahold of a working version of.
Couldn't agree with you more.machinesworking wrote:.........
IMO anyway a huge portion of the Oberheim sound is the filters. There's a cream to them that I don't hear in Moog or Sequential etc. synths. Playing pads on the Oberheim Xpander just sounds to me better than Sequential etc.
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This is software, after all. Why not the 12dB from OB-X and the 24dB Curtis in one emulation? Best of both worlds.olikana wrote:the ob-xa was the ultimate Curtis synth. all the best curtis chips are in there. and thats the one I'd rather see emulated.
the ob-x and sems have a nice clean creamy 12 db, but lack of 24 db make them not very useful to me.
Praying for the German God of beer I've had the obxa for years. It was, well, prone to not working on a Wednesday. Or Thursday. Or Monday. Or, well you get the point. The OB-x and the SEM to my ears sound completely different from each other. I don't know why that is. Maybe because the SEM is a bunch of mono synths when you put it together and you control each voice independently. But the OBxa is a lot easier to get a hold of than the original four voice and it sounds good just maybe not that unique.olikana wrote:the ob-xa was the ultimate Curtis synth. all the best curtis chips are in there. and thats the one I'd rather see emulated.
the ob-x and sems have a nice clean creamy 12 db, but lack of 24 db make them not very useful to me.
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