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In the early 80's all serious synthesizer manufacturers had to try hard to stay on the market after the release of the Prophet-5 synthesizer. The first attempt to grab his bite of the niche was made by Oberheim when he launched OB-X synthesizer, the...
In 1978, Sequential Circuits company released Prophet-5, which immediately became incredibly popular due to the ability to save all the parameters of the synthesizer in the presets. Tom Oberheim responded with OB-X. The synthesizer has a hybrid...
OB-SX is the cheaper and lighter version of OB-X. Just like its "big brother" it was based on a modular system and was produced with two, four or six voice cards. But the cards are not interchangeable/not compatible with OB-X. Each voice card has: Two...
The synthesizer module, designed by Donald Buchla (Tom Oberheim did not participate in the development) to recreate the sound of two legendary families of synthesizers - Moog and Oberheim. The name is the abbreviation of Oberheim-Moog. Ob-Mx is based on...
OB-8 is the last representative of the classic OB series – it’s an improved version of the OB-Xa synthesizer. OB-8, as well as the whole series of vintage OBs, is built on using voice cards, but unlike its predecessors it was produced with a fixed number...
This small analog monophonic synthesizer strongly influenced the sound of pop music of the 1980s. The main feature that explains the popularity of OB-1 - the ability to save settings in one of eight presets. All functional blocks are built on discrete...
Multimoog is an expanded version of Micromoog. There are not so many differences from its younger brother but they are very significant. The older model received an additional voltage controlled oscillator which allowed receiving character detuned basses...
Mother 32 is designed to operate as a module system central unit or as a standalone desktop synth. It offers all the needed functions for a diverse sonic palette. Its VCO generates saw and square waveforms. In a square mode “pulse width” knob generates...
Model 15 is a legend among modular systems. It doesn’t seem possible to estimate the cost of the original, which was made in the period from 1973 to 1981. Today you can become the owner of one of the one hundred and fifty recreated synthesizers, or be...
The Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter is a synthesizer module released by Roland in 1984. It is a rack-mountable version of the popular Jupiter-8 synthesizer and is known for its warm, rich analog sound. It features two oscillators, two filters, two...
