- By Jan van het Meer
- 12 Oct 2023
More about the Oberheim OB-8
More about the Oberheim OB-8
Today (12-10-2023) the English GForce launched a special Virtual instrument. The Oberheim
OB-8. This is an emulation of the OB-8 and the special thing is that GForce can also give it the original name. This is because Tom Oberheim has chosen GForce as the company that can emulate the Oberheim products into Virtual instruments. It is true that the Oberheim products that GForce releases must be approved by Tom Oberheim.
I found a nice article about the famous Oberheim OB-8 on Wikipedia, which I have posted below.
The Oberheim OB-8 is a subtractive analog synthesizer launched by Oberheim in early 1983 and discontinued in 1985. As the fourth product in the OB-series of polyphonic compact synthesizers, the OB-8 was the successor to the OB-Xa. The number of production was about 3,000 units.[1]
The OB-8 features eight-voice polyphony, two-part multi-timbrality, a 61-note processor-controlled piano keyboard, sophisticated programmable low-frequency oscillation (LFO) and envelope modulation, two-pole and four-pole filters, arpeggiator, external cassette storage, MIDI capability and 120 memory patches, 24 bi-timbral patches, and used the Z80 CPU. The musician’s interface also consists of two pages of front panel programmable controls, left panel performance controls and a set of foot pedals and switches.
Artists who have used the OB-8 include Alice Coltrane, in her ashram music, Boys Noize, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Prince, Spinetta Jade,[2] Queen, Van Halen, Depeche Mode, The War on Drugs, Styx, Kool & The Gang, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Clarence Jey, The Police, Siekiera,[3] Silent Running, The KLF, Future Sound of London, Barnes & Barnes and Nik Kershaw.[4]
The virtual version of the GForce click this link