4/1/2023 0 Comments Ob xd polyphonyIf you’ve got three grand at hand, get the OB-6. That’s not so much to say the Arturia OB-Xa is cloning the OB-6 as it is that this being software, you get the same sort of modulation routing and digital effects the hardware gives you. In fact, in some way, this is as close as you’ll get in software to a spiritual sibling to the awesome Sequential OB-6, made in collaboration between Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim. So yes, yes “Prince, The Police, Queen.” And nowadays, as Arturia puts it: “the likes of Flume, Chrome Sparks, Calvin Harris, and Venetian Snares.” (I wanted to copy-paste that just because I am sure those artists have never been in a sentence together.)īut the OB-Xa holds up, too, even if you’d never heard it before.Īrturia are not the first to make a software version of this instrument – in fact, MusicRadar has a great round-up of software from some years back.īut the OB-Xa both exploits modern modeling technique and adds a bunch of extras in the area of modulation and effects. And by compete, I mean growl and tear at each other. It was physically massive, but also sonically thicker than anything – because inside the different voices are set up to compete with one another as much as coexist. The OB-Xa, a beefy, buttery rival to Sequential’s Prophet line, was what Gary Numan once said was the best analog synth – ever. Oberheim OB-Xa and OB-SX “Oberheim Updates” ad, Contemporary Keyboard 1982Ĭan we have marketing that looks like this again, please? Retro Synth Ads has another gorgeous vintage find. Having modern plug-in features and modulation to drive it just makes it that much more capable of sheer havoc. There’s just thickness and evil accessible everywhere. And you have people interested in the synth for its own sake – because it may hold up. You’ve got people wanting to use the instruments of some of their favorite artists. I would presume there are two major markets for remakes and clones of past synths. Arturia today has unveiled a software reproduction of the epic OB-Xa – and it might feel as powerful in 2020 as the original did in 1980.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |