Why to Still Love the Oberheim Matrix-6R, Even If There are No Knobs.

video upload by Nostalgic Explorer

"In 1986, Oberheim took the DNA of its flagship synths and squeezed it into a rack module... then removed every single knob.

That one decision is why the #Oberheim Matrix-6R still divides people today. It's also a synth that ended up in the racks of Orbital, Philip Glass, Tangerine Dream and many more. So which is it: a hidden gem or a headache?

Explorers, I powered mine up to find out. There's one thing everybody complains about on the #Matrix6R, and I've got a different take on it. Then I hooked it up to my Elektron Digitakt, went digging through the patches, and found a few sounds I didn't want to stop playing.

Stay for the jam at the end. That's where this #VintageSynth really shows what it's made of.

00:00 – A Mid-80s Exploration Begins
00:18 – The Affordable Oberheim: Meet the Matrix-6R
03:09 – Sequencing From the Elektron Digitakt
03:34 – No Knobs? Let's Talk About It
04:00 – Finding Your Way Through the Presets
04:26 – Editing a Patch From the Front Panel
05:40 – Where the Modulation Magic Lives
06:13 – Splitting the Keyboard
06:37 – The Sounds Begin
11:10 – Let's Jam
14:13 – Final Thoughts"

Oberheim OB-6 SN 05243 w/ Original Box

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Additional Three Wave Music Listings

"Oberheim OB-6 in excellent condition. Tested and confirmed to fully function. Includes box, manual, quickstart guide and IEC power cable."

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Gary Numan - Vox Humana

video upload by George B.

"A remake of this sound using the Double Mode of the OB-X8. This in effect doubles the oscillators and LFO's. One additional LFO was needed that a standard patch doesn't have. However, we are not wanting to double the oscillators. Turns out you can set one layer to osc 1, and the second layer to osc 2. So still two oscillators but more LFO's. Thanks to Alex Ball and his great video explaining this instrument. Be sure to look him up and his video called "That Gary Numan Synth""

OB-X8 - Twinkly Patch

video upload by Adam Borseti

Ghostbusters Theme Song

video upload by Bendrr Music

"Spooky season is officially upon us...Who you gonna call?!

Check out my music , merch and other cool stuff below -

https://paa.ge/bendrr/"

Corshagwen - Black Polished Chrome (Trance Mix)

video upload by marine records

"Remix of 'Black Polished Chrome' from Jim Morrison.

composed, performed, recorded & mixed by Corshagwen
marine records 2026

includes samples from :
Jim Morrison
Raga Bindu / @ragabindu

Corshagwen plays the following instruments :
Roland JD-800 / SE-02 / JP-50 / JV-2080 / TR-909
Oberheim TEO-5
ARP Odyssey
Moog Sub Phatty
Yamaha Montage
Steinberg Groove Agent

DAW / STAN : Steinberg Cubase 13
USB audio card : Roland Octa-Capture
Mixing console :
Yamaha MX12/4
Mackie 24-8"

Miltone 4EXP - A Four Voice Clone

video upload by Alex Ball

"The Miltone 4EXP turned a lot of heads at Superbooth back in May and I was interested to cover it my channel, so they kindly let me borrow two of the prototypes to test them out.

The 4EXP is a component level clone of the legendary Oberheim Four Voice (FVS-1) done to a very high standard (and price) as either a stand alone synthesizer or as an expander to turn an original Four Voice into an Eight Voice.

Miltone are doing an initial batch of 50 of them, built to order. Their website is here: https://miltone.fr/

0:00 Intro Jam
1:13 What is the 4EXP?
2:42 Demo 1: Quatre Voix
3:58 A look at the electronics
4:29 Midi / CV & Gate Setup
5:55 Demo 2: Huit Voix
6:49 Splits
7:26 Demo 3: Deux Plus Deux Plus Deux
8:44 Comparison to an original Oberheim
9:04 The Riff Off
10:29 My Thoughts on the 4EXP
13:01 Patron Outro Jam"

See the Miltone label below for additional posts.

Side note: only KORG PS3200 on Google Maps?

FREEDOM by Davide Micheli

video upload by Davide Micheli

You can find an English translation of the following video description further below.

"Freedom è un brano di musica elettronica prodotto da Davide Micheli utilizzando sintetizzatori elettronici tra cui alcuni Italiani moderni come il 'GRPA4', ma anche vintage anni 80 come 'Elka Twin61' e 'CRB Diamond 910 Gold M'. Altri sintetizzatori utilizzati sono il 'Moog Voyager XL', il 'Waldrof Quantum', e per ultimo 'Oberheim OB-X8'. La Drum Machine è una Drum degli anni 80 molto famosa ai sui tempi la 'Dynacord P20' 8-Bit Drum Machine.

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Oberheim FVS-1 Four voice system Memory programmer module

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Pics of the inside below.

"Complete and functional Memory programmer module, tested With am original fvs 1"

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808 STATE-NIMBUS-GRANADA TONIGHT-1992.

video upload by sunsetz777

"One of Manchester's finest 808 state perform Nimbus.I think this was from Liverpool's Albert Dock.Interview by Becky Want."

This one was spotted by Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

OB-X One Teaser

video upload by TjimmyChonga

"Two Oberheim OB-X voice cards (Crowbx clones).
Custom everything else."

He Put 6 Classic Synths Inside the MiniFreak

video upload by Starsky Carr

"Can the Arturia MiniFreak recreate the character of six classic synths? With the V5 update and custom wavetables, I’m bringing tones from the *Minimoog, Prophet-5, Juno-106, Jupiter-8, Korg DW-8000 and Oberheim OB-X into the MiniFreak.

There’s more to an oscillator than a perfect saw or square wave. We’ll hear how different source waveforms affect the sound, explore the Juno’s bass bump, and combine pulse, saw and sub waves for some properly vintage tones.

Along the way, I demonstrate importing wavetables, compare classic oscillator flavours and explain why holding back on modulation and effects can help capture that vintage character.

These aren’t exact emulations—the filters and envelopes still play their part—but there’s plenty of character to explore.

The vintage sound packs are available for MiniFreak and Serum on my website. For more patches, samples and tutorials, join me on Patreon.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Six classic synths inside the MiniFreak
1:30 DW-8000 wavetables explained
2:36 DW-8000 patches
4:11 OB-X8 bank
6:23 PWM shootout: Juno vs Oberheim vs Prophet
7:20 Juno-106 high-pass modes
9:02 Prophet-5 PWM
12:03 Jupiter-8 bank
13:58 How to keep sounds vintage"

Oberheim Teo 5 The Edge of Midnight Vol.2 Preset Bank

video upload by Reginald "Regg" Smith

Oberheim Teo 5 The Edge of Midnight Vol.1 Preset Bank

"This preset bank includes 48 Presets for the Oberheim Teo-5

Purchase Link: The Edge of Midnight Vol.2 https://reginald-regg-smith-sounds.se...

The Edge of Midnight Bundle (Vol.1 & 2) https://reginald-regg-smith-sounds.se...

Designed by Industry Producer Reginald 'Regg' Smith for the OBERHEIM Teo-5

Visit www.soundstoinspire.com for more of my preset banks!

Being primarily a music producer and songwriter, the focus of these presets were to design presets that sound good in a music production. Most of the presets contains additional modulation via mod wheel, so one preset almost feels like 2.

These presets are to be installed using a Sysex Library Manager (Free)"

OBERHEIM OB-X8 - HISTORIA W TWOIM STUDIO

video upload by RÓB MUZĘ JAK PRO

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168bpm

video upload by 3Echoflow

"168 BPM.

A hardware jam built around fast drums, broken rhythms and shifting electronic textures.

The Digitakt II drives the drums and sequencing, while the TEO-5 handles the synth parts. The Hologram Microcosm especially the Blocks algorithms keeps cutting, stretching and reshaping the beat, pushing it somewhere between drum & bass, breakbeat and glitchy electronic music.

Not really straight DnB, not really classic breaks either just 168 BPM and the sounds getting slightly out of control.

Recorded live in Ableton Live.

Gear:
Elektron Digitakt II
Oberheim TEO-5
Hologram Microcosm

#digitakt2 #teo5 #microcosm #breakbeat #drumandbass #hardwarejam #electronicmusic"

Ober-Moog Prototype from DenverSynth

video upload by manmade madman

"The bassline from @nineinchnails The Becoming has always haunted me. Originally done on a borrowed 'OberMoog' prototype [matrix note: see prior posts here], the original synth underwent massive engineering changes, management, and versioning until it finally became the OB-Mx, which was a "better" synth, but didn't quite sound the same. I know this, because I owned an OB-Mx. Anyways, our Ober-Moog VST gets pretty close, and goes beyond. Plus, it's got 500+ presets, an EZ button for randomization, and Hand Of God for impossible automated modulation. Available now at store.denversynth.com

How close does this get?
I guess only TR can say for sure.

#nineinchnails #vst #denversynth #obermoog #obmx"

OBERMOOG

The synth that wasn't.
A 1:1 recreation of the Oberheim OB-Mx panel, voiced as the ‘Ober-Moog’ — the pre-production prototype Trent Reznor borrowed from Richard Bugg and used for the bassline of Nine Inch Nails’ The Becoming. Never officially released, barely documented, and rebuilt here from every source that exists, contested claims included.

- Full OB-Mx architecture: dual VCO per voice, MM-VCF and SEM-VCF in series or parallel, four-stage envelopes with free-run and repeat

- Voiced specifically as the Ober-Moog prototype, not a stock OB-Mx — the one unit with its own name, its own history, and no official spec sheet


- Unison/spread/detune matching the OB-Mx's card-based voice architecture, mono or up to full polyphony

- Modulation matrix covering breath, pressure, velocity, note number, wheel, and pedal across twelve assignable destinations

- Built from every documented source on the instrument, with the honest gaps left as gaps rather than guessed at EZ button gets you into a usable patch in seconds; the panel underneath goes as deep as the original hardware did

Oberheim Teo5 “Cinamatique” Preset (Violins in my Mind)creating an Instrumental using Step Sequencer

video upload by Maria Calfa-DePaul

"This synth is quickly become one of my favorites. I think if I had to sell all of them, I definitely would keep this one. It is just got such an incredible sound. It feels like an instrument not a synthesizer. Don’t know if that makes any sense but it feels so real feels like you can do so many different types of music with it and I’m enjoying having it and going back to it. I can’t play everything all at once so I like to give my synthesizer and Instruments a little bit of love whenever I can And in this track, I use the preset Cinematique and I use the step sequencer with some rest to kinda get it to the tempo that I wanted and it seemed to work really well. I really felt like this could be background music or used for scarring a movie. You know I mean, I love the sound of the synthesizer and I hope it comes through and I hope you felt relaxed and enjoyed watching it."

Nord Modular on the new Browser Editor x Waldorf Quantum x Oberheim Matrix 6r x Roland TR8s

video upload by DACHI Klangmusik

"Homebase Electronic Live Session

My first live session in the new Synthesizer-Room with:

Nord Modular on „Hamburg“ Patch from www.nordmodulareditor.com

Waldorf Quantum Arpeggio

Oberheim Matrix 6r with Stereoping Controller

Roland TR8s

Sequencer Yamaha RS7000

#nordmodulareditor
#Waldorfmusic
#oberheim #stereoping #Rolandmusic"

Oberheim TEO-5 and Sequential Fourm Synthesizers from Init to? Sound Tower Editor for Teo-5

video upload by James Dyson

"Oberheim TEO-5 and Sequential Fourm Synthesizers from Init to
From scratch lets see what Sonic journey we take.
Sound Tower Editor for Teo-5"

Semi MDLR Kinda _ Digitakt II Oberheim TEO-5 Microcosm

video upload by 3Echoflow