Funny thing about Buchla salvaging the OBM-x. It didn't work.
When I demo'd it at the NAMM '95 show, I was shocked at the compressed, and cold sound of it. I never heard an Oberheim that wasn't thick city, ever !!
I thought something fishy was going on and backed right the hell out of the deal I struck for Bizzarre Guitar, and Starsound Audio. They were trying to tie in the Oberheims w/ Gibson products, like say if you have 4 or 5 Les Pauls in the custom shop backordered in Michigan, we could speed that process up by carrying the Oberheim products, which I personally went to audition. Since my PCM41 was being used live then, and I had The Matrix 12 / XPander combo, I informed the dealers I represented then that it was NOT the Oberheims I knew of. Then Viscount of Italy bought the name for a while and released those awesome controllers the MC series, and that rather shitty Eclipse Piano. But Oberheim was never the same after the OB8.
It takes more than a name to make a FAT BASTARD.
Oberheim Echoplex Pro
Yeah Jimmy, if even Don Buchla couldn't salvage it the level of incompetent management by Gibson must have been incredible. The Viscount stuff was really bizarre... the controllers were good but there was the terrible OB-12, a very thin VA digital synth.
le tigre - you're right, the MIDI stuff is very good on it. And Undo is awesome (my EH2880 doesn't have that, although with 4 tracks you can work around it). It's really fun to mess with old analog keyboards in the studio, you can record stuff without having to deal with the computer.
le tigre - you're right, the MIDI stuff is very good on it. And Undo is awesome (my EH2880 doesn't have that, although with 4 tracks you can work around it). It's really fun to mess with old analog keyboards in the studio, you can record stuff without having to deal with the computer.