Arturia OB-Xa V

[fuzzlightyear]

Well, that's the nature of emulation. I doubt they use any existing plugin as a blueprint though, rather the hardware. And, there's a lot of room for improvement, as you could have seen with any of the newer Minimoog emulations. They're far beyond anything which has been achieved before.

I think the point that's trying to be made is, do we really need or want another emulation?

[fmr]

erm, no... you don't get it.... the cards have trimmers, fully user adjustable... its not black magic

This is a picture of an OB-Xa card. Now, tell me what you would adjust, and why

Is this what you want access to?

the trim pots?

black and white, little philips screw. theres a couple on there at least.

Yes there are. What would you do with them? Why?

[wagtunes]

Absolutely, the number of people who either grew up in the era and can't afford the stuff now or those who love the sounds but never had the chance to buy the synths because they weren't even around then, has to be off the charts.

The only reason I didn't like synths back in the day was because they took up a lot of space, early on had no preset saving, cost a lot to buy and repair, were (in some cases) heavy as hell, required audio cables, MIDI cables and so on, and essentially turned my studio into a showroom with maybe just 6 or 7 synths.

Today, you can have 100 synths in a box and they're cheap as hell

I would never go back to those days for anything.

They were, for me anyway, horrible.

But, the big development and business issues with nailing down an emulation, is there will be no version 2 to continue the revenue turning over like a well paid subscription model.

Once all the classic hardware is emulated, where do you go next?
To the next company with their brand of emulation for your G.A.S.?

Who cares? I buy things because I feel I have a use for it. No other reason. This year so far, almost 5 full months into the year, I haven't bought one synth. Hell, the only thing I bought all year was a new controller for $260 because my old one had so many problems with it.

I hardly buy synths at all anymore. But if something comes out that I find interesting enough to get, I'll get it.

I couldn't care less if all the hardware synths in the world ever made got emulated.

[wagtunes]

Well, that's the nature of emulation. I doubt they use any existing plugin as a blueprint though, rather the hardware. And, there's a lot of room for improvement, as you could have seen with any of the newer Minimoog emulations. They're far beyond anything which has been achieved before.

I think the point that's trying to be made is, do we really need or want another emulation?

For the people who aren't happy with what's out there, the answer is yes. When the day comes that people have all the emulations that they could want and nobody buys them anymore, companies will stop making them.

[vurt]

erm, no... you don't get it.... the cards have trimmers, fully user adjustable... its not black magic

This is a picture of an OB-Xa card. Now, tell me what you would adjust, and why

Is this what you want access to?

the trim pots?

black and white, little philips screw. theres a couple on there at least.

Yes there are. What would you do with them? Why?

not a clue what they are for on these cards.
but tuning oscillators, would be one thing, depending on the other characteristics that make up "1 voice" youll have to guess the other 4 functions (im assuming 5 per voice?)

[fmr]

erm, no... you don't get it.... the cards have trimmers, fully user adjustable... its not black magic

This is a picture of an OB-Xa card. Now, tell me what you would adjust, and why

Is this what you want access to?

the trim pots?

black and white, little philips screw. theres a couple on there at least.

Yes there are. What would you do with them? Why?

not a clue what they are for on these cards.
but tuning oscillators, would be one thing, depending on the other characteristics that make up "1 voice" youll have to guess the other 4 functions (im assuming 5 per voice?)

Exactly. I wouldn't touch them because "I have no clue" what they are for, and I would risk to f*** things up if I did. They are there for technicians to tune some things on the cards. But it's for technicians, not for the regular user.

And there are ten of those (not five).

[vurt]

im assuming it would be in the manual?
i have bits with such things, and usually the manual explains what theyre for.

[vurt]

and yes theres 10, but its 2 voice per card.

[AnX]

11 on there I can see, all useful.

tunings, pan, ranges etc

[fmr]

im assuming it would be in the manual?
i have bits with such things, and usually the manual explains what theyre for.

Maybe, but I sincerely doubt. If I was Oberheim, I wouldn't want users to mess with these. If you have access to a manual, check it. I will try to find one.

[AnX]

and yes theres 10, but its 2 voice per card.

1 voice per card

[fmr]

and yes theres 10, but its 2 voice per card.

According to the site this picture was from, is one voice per card. I had read in another place that there were two voice per card too. Maybe they changed later.

[fmr]

11 on there I can see, all useful.

tunings, pan, ranges etc

So, you know... Good for you. You belong to that 1% who would know what to do with them

Can you tell me which is which? The picture is very large, so you can zoom in a lot

Ranges too?

[vurt]

im assuming it would be in the manual?
i have bits with such things, and usually the manual explains what theyre for.

Maybe, but I sincerely doubt. If I was Oberheim, I wouldn't want users to mess with these. If you have access to a manual, check it. I will try to find one.

theyre just trim pots, its not like you need any know how, you just turn it a bit

[vurt]

and yes theres 10, but its 2 voice per card.

1 voice per card

fair enough, thought it was 4 cards 8 voices.