GForce OB-1

[Effectsworks]

GForce were quiet there for a few years and now they are knocking it out of the park yet again.

[electro]

I also noticed that they added oversampling options here, but the other products don't have it; I think impOSCar might benefit from those.

The VCF?

[BONES]

Will the 10,000th VA VST synth be the one that helps you make a hit song? Nah!

It might well inspire me to write something new and worthwhile. New synths provide fresh inspiration. A constant flow of them keeps me on the creative boil. If I get one or two new things from one purchase, then it has justified it's price, even if it only get used for the next few months and is then forgotten (which is what generally happens).

[Scotty]

I am thinking this would be a good synth to control with the Roland System 1 Controller. I’m on the road looking forward to seeing how it matches up when home.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Will the 10,000th VA VST synth be the one that helps you make a hit song? Nah!

It might well inspire me to write something new and worthwhile. New synths provide fresh inspiration. A constant flow of them keeps me on the creative boil. If I get one or two new things from one purchase, then it has justified it's price, even if it only get used for the next few months and is then forgotten (which is what generally happens).

I make the same point in my post when I talked about enjoying and being inspired by LegendHZ. You didn't quote that part. If it inspires you and brings you joy great! But in terms of bringing something new to the table? Nah...

[art&sound]

I also noticed that they added oversampling options here, but the other products don't have it; I think impOSCar might benefit from those.

The VCF?

Don't get me wrong—I love that filter. It is possible, especially now with the wavetable editor, to get it to make some crunchy aliasing distortion though.

[DashOfLime]

Will the 10,000th VA VST synth be the one that helps you make a hit song? Nah!

It might well inspire me to write something new and worthwhile. New synths provide fresh inspiration. A constant flow of them keeps me on the creative boil. If I get one or two new things from one purchase, then it has justified it's price, even if it only get used for the next few months and is then forgotten (which is what generally happens).

I make the same point in my post when I talked about enjoying and being inspired by LegendHZ. You didn't quote that part. If it inspires you and brings you joy great! But in terms of bringing something new to the table? Nah...

Who else has done an OB-1? Nobody. So something new is on the table Kidding aside their thing is preservation of analog gear via good emulation (while adding extras the originals never had.). This is what they have done for decades at fair prices. Maybe we should stop expecting them to do otherwise.

[BONES]

But in terms of bringing something new to the table? Nah...

Ah, yeah. Until last week I had never so much as heard of an OB-1 so, for me, it is something brand new and previously unknown. I don't think Oberheim had a distributor here until the early 80s because I'd never really heard of anything of theirs before the OB's (until the internet, of course). We had ARPs and Sequential Circuits and Moog stuff but the first Oberheims I ever saw were OB-Xa models. The first time I ever heard of SEM was only about 20 years ago.

[Uncle E]

Kidding aside their thing is preservation of analog gear via good emulation (while adding extras the originals never had.). This is what they have done for decades at fair prices. Maybe we should stop expecting them to do otherwise.

It's a great point. Here's a link to their history:

https://www.gforcesoftware.com/about/history/

[DashOfLime]

Kidding aside their thing is preservation of analog gear via good emulation (while adding extras the originals never had.). This is what they have done for decades at fair prices. Maybe we should stop expecting them to do otherwise.

It's a great point. Here's a link to their history:

https://www.gforcesoftware.com/about/history/

Well per that page maybe at some point we can expect something original.

[beely]

Well per that page maybe at some point we can expect something original.

GF really come from a love of vintage classic synths, that's their bag, their market position, and I think that's what they'll continue to do. Whatever original things they do are more like concepts to take those vintage instruments further (like the per-parameter modulation options that started with Minimonsta, or instruments like VSM/Mtron to house many different classic sounds etc), rather than completely original instruments.

If you want original, new/modern stuff, there are plenty of other devs who are more into that, so there's always choice, so I'd probably not look to GF or expect that from them.

But who knows what they have in mind, maybe they do have original instrument ideas and an itch they'd like to scratch in that direction. But I doubt it's going to be a Spire/Zebra/Serum/Massive-type thing, or other instrument in that modern direction, it would likely still be heavily inspired by those vintage classics, just because that's where their heart and passion is.

[vitocorleone123]

Well per that page maybe at some point we can expect something original.

GF really come from a love of vintage classic synths, that's their bag, their market position, and I think that's what they'll continue to do. Whatever original things they do are more like concepts to take those vintage instruments further (like the per-parameter modulation options that started with Minimonsta, or instruments like VSM/Mtron to house many different classic sounds etc), rather than completely original instruments.

If you want original, new/modern stuff, there are plenty of other devs who are more into that, so there's always choice, so I'd probably not look to GF or expect that from them.

But who knows what they have in mind, maybe they do have original instrument ideas and an itch they'd like to scratch in that direction. But I doubt it's going to be a Spire/Zebra/Serum/Massive-type thing, or other instrument in that modern direction, it would likely still be heavily inspired by those vintage classics, just because that's where their heart and passion is.

Totally don’t expect it, but they’re in the top tier these days, so it’d be interesting to see what they’d come up with.

Tried the demo again. Still have a hard time looking at it (submitted a ticket to them), and the sound is sorta…. The same. It’s like the Generate of analog - sounds great, but pretty much all sounds the same with some different envelopes and modulation. Meh. I’ll probably still get the E at some point, as well as try out anything they release.

[zvenx]

rsp

[Uncle E]

I’ll probably still get the E at some point, as well as try out anything they release.

The E is excellent. If someone didn’t have any of their Oberheim’s and already had one of their other X-Modifier synths, I’d say the E is the one to get, just for its ability to have so much variation in the voices.

[El°HYM]

How do you like the GF-E compared to the Cherry One?