Oberheim OB-6 Dave Smith

Post by **synthRodriguez** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:51 am

Glad I waited on the P6. This thing sounds great.

Post by **madtheory** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:11 am

It has the original OB ring mod and phaser built in

The only thing missing, and this is being really picky, is all of the cool arp functions from the OB-8.

synthparts · Post by **synthparts** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:18 pm

madtheory wrote: It has the original OB ring mod and phaser built in The only thing missing, and this is being really picky, is all of the cool arp functions from the OB-8.

And the 2 extra voices, 5-octave keyboard, individual voice panning pots, dual patch splitting and layering capability...

Post by **madtheory** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:14 pm

Ya, splits and layers (with programmable level and tuning) would be good. Layering is a very simple and powerful sound design facility. I don't think that would raise the price by much, seeing as it can do unison now.

The problem with 2 extra voices and the keyboard is $$$$.

Post by **meatballfulton** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:08 pm

DSI is all about leveraging past designs to create new products. This is basically a Prophet 6 rejiggered into an Oberheim. As Dave mentioned in one video I saw this allowed the rapid tunraround time, remember P6 was just a year ago.

Expecting to ship in a month!

DesolationBlvd · Post by **DesolationBlvd** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:51 pm

synthparts wrote:
madtheory wrote: It has the original OB ring mod and phaser built in The only thing missing, and this is being really picky, is all of the cool arp functions from the OB-8.
And the 2 extra voices, 5-octave keyboard, individual voice panning pots, dual patch splitting and layering capability...

...And also the 24dB mode.

I take back what I said earlier in this thread, I'm getting this whether or not my OB-Xa is fixable, since they have enough to set them apart.

meatballfulton wrote:DSI is all about leveraging past designs to create new products. This is basically a Prophet 6 rejiggered into an Oberheim. As Dave mentioned in one video I saw this allowed the rapid tunraround time, remember P6 was just a year ago.

Expecting to ship in a month!

I think I saw people on Gearslutz suspicious about that very point. Carson from DSI said that the oscillators are not the same as P6: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/11636283-post451.html

Post by **Solderman** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:00 pm

meatballfulton wrote:This is basically a Prophet 6 rejiggered into an Oberheim.

What I'm wondering is, aside from the front panel controls, is this internally just a switchout of voice cards in a socketed modular fashion? That could open up some great possibilities.
As excited as I was at the news of the Prophet 6, I have to say I'm liking the sonic character of the OB6 more.

desmond · Post by **desmond** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:40 pm

Solderman wrote:
meatballfulton wrote:This is basically a Prophet 6 rejiggered into an Oberheim.
What I'm wondering is, aside from the front panel controls, is this internally just a switchout of voice cards in a socketed modular fashion? That could open up some great possibilities.

Yeah, basically it's the same frame, control structure, electronics and power supply.
The voice cards/filters were presumably taken from Tom's designs and packaged into a form that resembles the P6 voice cards so they would work - then the front panel was redesigned for the appropriate control structure. Seems like good business to me!

Solderman wrote:As excited as I was at the news of the Prophet 6, I have to say I'm liking the sonic character of the OB6 more.

Agreed. I find it hard to get excited by synths these days, but on hearing the OB I was surprised at just how great it sounds!

commodorejohn · Post by **commodorejohn** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:12 pm

Solderman wrote:As excited as I was at the news of the Prophet 6, I have to say I'm liking the sonic character of the OB6 more.

Ditto. The P6 looks great features-wise and does sound good, but man that OB-6 demo!

Synthmatic · Post by **Synthmatic** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:19 pm

stikygum · Post by **stikygum** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:21 pm

desmond wrote: Yeah, basically it's the same frame, control structure, electronics and power supply.
The voice cards/filters were presumably taken from Tom's designs and packaged into a form that resembles the P6 voice cards so they would work - then the front panel was redesigned for the appropriate control structure. Seems like good business to me!

This is good to hear. Tom's sound with Dave's layout and assembly. What a thing of beauty.

gd · Post by gd » Sat Jan 23, 2016 12:00 am

Great collaboration to say the least. Looking fwd to playing one and hearing what DSI collaborations has coming out next.

Percivale · Post by **Percivale** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:28 am

I think this is a great synth!

Post by **SquareWave** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:19 am

Brilliant!!!

I was close to getting a SEM of some sort... Glad I waited! I hope they will be doing a desktop version like the P6. What a great time to be a synth geek!

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 4:48 am

Dat phaser tho

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