Tom oberheim OB-X8
The OB-X8 sounds like an original Oberheim because it is an original Oberheim. Its 100% analog audio circuitry allows it to come out of the mix like no other synth.
Pure Analog
The OB-X8's audio signal path is all analogue, full of warmth and power. It's the same distinctive Oberheim sound that made iconic tracks like Prince's 1999, Van Halen's Jump, and Rush's Tom Sawyer unforgettable. And now it's yours to enhance your own music.
New sounds
The factory sounds of the OB series, which you know from countless recordings, are all here. But that's just the beginning: our network of world-renowned sound designers has created some stunning new sounds just for the OB-X. And because the OB-X8 has a set of clear, easy-to-understand controls, creating your own sounds is as simple as turning a few knobs and saving the ones you like.
Three in one
The OB-X8 combines the three different voice architectures of the OB-X, OB-Xa and OB-8 into one instrument. The specific filter types and other unique features of each model have been faithfully reproduced, giving you the most authentic OB experience possible. You can even mix elements from the different models to create sounds that are impossible to achieve with the originals. There has never been an OB series synthesizer so powerful and versatile.
- Two discrete SEM/OB-X VCOs per voice for powerful Oberheim sounds.
- Discrete SEM VCFs provide OB-X-like tone and presence.
- True Curtis filters provide the strong character of the OB-Xa/OB-8.
- Envelope responses have been carefully matched to each OB model: OB-X, Ob-Xa and OB-8.
- The 61-key FATAR velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive keyboard provides unparalleled expressiveness and responsiveness.
- The bitimbral function allows two presets to be used simultaneously for splits and doubles.
- Over 400 factory programs, including all OB-X, OB-SX, OB-Xa and OB-8 factory sounds.
- Passive fanless power supply
- Real walnut sides
- High-resolution OLED display provides program management and easy access to advanced features.
- Oberheim's signature pitch and modulation levers provide pitch control, vibrato and arpeggiator functions.
Enhancements
- Additional SEM filter modes that add high-pass, band-pass and notch modes to the popular OB-X filter.
- The Vintage knob allows you to dose variations from one voice to another to mimic the behaviour of vintage instruments.
- Velocity response adds expressiveness to the volume and filter.
- Per-channel aftertouch adds real-time, performance-based modulation.
- Enhanced unison allows stacking from 1 to 8 voices.
- Programmable per-voice panning provides greater stereo presence.
- Variable oscillator and noise levels
- Variable triangle wave cross modulation
- 600 user memory locations
- Inputs and outputs
- Stereo left and right and mono outputs
- Inputs for volume, sustain and filter pedals
- Clock input for arpeggiator.
- MIDI In, Out, Thru
- USB
- Ref. Euroguitar : 102789
