Arturia's New Analog Synthesizer MiniBrute Musicianews NAMM 2012

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 21, 2012

"Romain Dejole, Marketing Manager for Arturia shows us their new 100% analog signal path synthesizer MiniBrute. The osc mixer allows you to blend different wave shapes"

Musicianews NAMM 2011 Snazzy FX Pedals

YouTube via musicianews | February 08, 2011 |

"Dan Snazelle of Snazzy FX Pedals Demos his latest effect pedals from the Analogue Haven Booth at NAMM 2011"

Musicianews NAMM 2011 Demo of Synthwerks New Resistor Modules FSR 4BC

YouTube via musicianews | January 23, 2011
http://synthwerks.com/
"James Husted with Synthworks, demos his new Resistor Modules based on FSR Technology. FSR 4, FSR4CB. They produce a control voltage based on how hard you press on the sensors. The modules can be found at Synthwerks, Analoguehaven.com, Noisebug and Big City Music. Priced $95- $375"

RIP Gert Jalass of Moon Modular

Some sad news sent my way via John L Rice who helped man the Moon Modular booth at NAMM every year. Gert Jalass, the man behind Moon Modular has passed away. I met Gert serveral times at NAMM and he was always a pleasure to talk to. He always welcomed me with a smile. He was genuinely passionate about synthesisers and the synth community. I haven't been able to make events lately and was looking forward to seeing him again. I'm so saddened that I won't be able to. I am sincerely going to miss him.

You can find posts featuring Gert here, and of course posts featuring Moon Modular here.




Musicianews NAMM 2011 Moon Modular Controller for Analog Synthesizers

Jan 2011 video upload by musicianews

The above is the first video featuring Gert on the site posted back in 2011.

The image of Gert above is from this 2019 video.

New Moog Minitaur Moog Music - Namm 2012 Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 23, 2012

New VCO Dual Prismatic Oscillator from Make Noise - Namm 2012 - Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 29, 2012

"Tony from Make Noise shows us his new VCO Dual Prismatic Oscillator. You can take a basic sine wave and apply shaping and folding to it."

Nord Drum - Virtual Analog Drum Synthesizer - Namm 2012 Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 25, 2012

"Jim from Nord show us the Nord Drum, It specializes in electronic sounds. Shipping in February"

NORD DRUM - NAMM 2012 audioMIDI.com

Uploaded by audiomidicom on Jan 25, 2012

http://www.audiomidi.com

Rob Papen Debuts New Synth Blade Musicianews Namm 2012

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 21, 2012

"Rob shows us the features of his new synth Blade. Out Feb or early March. Each Note has its own XY pattern"

NAMM: Robert Rich Demos The Cloud Oscillator and Morphing Terrarium

YouTube via musicianews | January 24, 2011 |

"Robert Rich from Synthesis Technology, gives a detailed synthesis demo from his Euro Rack, which has Six VCO's and Wavetables on the Cloud Oscillator and Morphing Terrarium.
More info at:
http://musicianews.com"

The Hymnatron Synthesizer from Dewanatron - Namm 2012 - Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 29, 2012

"Leon from Dewanatron shows us their Hymnatron synthesizer. It is suitable for hymns and ecclesiastical music ."

NAMM: Line 6 Mobile Keys with Release Velocity

Mobile Keys 25 and 49 Line 6 - Namm 2012 Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 23, 2012

At 1:17 he mentions these have release velocity. You don't see that often. Velocity allows you to affect a sound based on how hard or quickly you hit the keys. Aftertouch allows you to affect a sound based on pressure you apply to the keys after pressing them. Release velocity, however, allows you to affect a sound based on how quickly you remove your hands from the keyboard. In short it offers an extra level of expression and can be quite useful. It's one thing I really liked about the Oberheim Matrix-6 keyboard. A simple example would be to assign the amplitude envelope release level to release velocity so that if you release quickly the sound cuts off, but if you release slowly the sound sustains.

New Moog Ladder - Moog Music - Namm 2012 Musicianews

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 23, 2012

NAMM: Arturia Oberheim SEM Floor Demo

Arturia's New Software Emulation of the Oberheim SEM Musicianews Namm 2012

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 21, 2012

"Sean from Arturia shows us their new software emulation of the Oberheim SEM. It has Dual VCO's and recreates the unique Oberheim SEM filter. It includes a noise generator and sub oscillator which were not available on the original SEM."

Introducing the Tom Oberheim & Dave Smith OB-6 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer

Uploaded on Jan 20, 2016 Dave Smith Instruments - "Tom Oberheim & Dave Smith Introduce the OB-6"

Update: new demo video from INHALT in via Soviet Space Child below!
Update2: DSI / Tom Oberheim - OB6 - live looping demonstration by Daniel Davis added below.

Awesome video! You'll find an audio demo at the bottom of this post. So, if you weren't sure NAMM had any big surprises coming, well here you go. A brand new six voice polyphonic Oberheim synth based on the original SEM's discrete VCOs and filters, complete with trademark blue pin strips, and a few extras. This is not a CEM based Oberheim. This is discrete analog with some modern capabilities. Think closer to the original Oberheim FVS and classic OB-X (CEM VCOs & VCFs came with the OB-Xa). A new Tom Oberheim six voice polysynth has arrived!

The following is the official press release:

"Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith Unveil OB-6 Analog Synthesizer

Legendary Poly Synth Creators Team Up on New Instrument with Discrete VCOs and Filters

Anaheim, CA—January 21, 2016—Dave Smith Instruments today announced the OB-6, a new 6-voice synthesizer with an all-analog signal path and discrete VCOs and filters developed in collaboration with Tom Oberheim. Boasting a sound engine inspired by Oberheim’s original SEM (the core of his acclaimed 4-voice and 8-voice synthesizers), the new instrument is designed to provide true, vintage SEM tone with the stability and exibility of modern technology.

Said Smith: 'Tom and I have been friends and friendly competitors since the late 1970’s. Back in the day, people were typically in either the Prophet or the Oberheim camp. Now, with the Prophet-6 out and doing so well, we thought it would be fun to combine our strengths and bring back Tom’s classic polyphonic sound, too — in a modern format.' Added Oberheim: 'A lot of people, myself included, have always felt that the SEMs had a certain uniquely big, organic sound unlike anything else. Working with Dave to make that sound widely available again with some modern touches and full programmability has been real a pleasure.'

The OB-6 features two discrete voltage-controlled oscillators (plus sub-oscillator) per voice, with continuously variable waveshapes (sawtooth and variable-width pulse, with triangle on oscillator 2). There is a classic SEM- inspired state-variable lter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch) per voice. Voltage-controlled ampli ers complete the all-analog signal path. 'The classic, bold SEM sound is all there,' said Oberheim.

Present also is X-Mod, with lter envelope and oscillator 2 as modulation sources (with bi-polar control). Destinations include oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 1 shape, oscillator 1 pulse width, lter cutoff, and lter mode. The knob-per-function front panel puts virtually all parameters at a user’s ngertips. Toggling on the Manual switch enables live panel mode, in which the OB-6 switches to the current settings of its knobs and switches.

A dual effects section provides studio-quality reverbs, delays (including standard and BBD), chorus, and faithful recreations of Tom Oberheim’s acclaimed phase shifter and ring modulator. The effects are digital, with 24-bit, 48 kHz resolution, but a true bypass maintains a full analog signal path. Additionally, the OB-6 features a multimode arpeggiator and a polyphonic step sequencer with up to 64 steps (and up to 6 notes per step) plus rests. It allows polyphonic keyboard input and can sync to external MIDI clock.

The full-size, four-octave, semi-weighted keyboard is velocity and aftertouch sensitive. Said Dave Smith, 'As with the Prophet-6, we made size a primary concern on the OB-6. It’s the right mix of power and portability and it ts right in on-stage or in the studio.' Added Oberheim, 'And of course, it’s got that unmistakable SEM sound that’s going to turn a lot of heads. '

The OB-6 is manufactured and sold by Dave Smith Instruments. It will be available in March, with a projected MAP of $2,999."



Update: new demo from INHALT in via Soviet Space Child.

Oberheim Dave Smith OB 6 Demo by INHALT

Published on Jan 21, 2016 INHALTVIDEO

This sounds like an Oberheim.

"As long time users of the Oberheim OB8 and 2 Voice (take a listen to our "Occupations" EP as both are on it all over the place) we were pleasantly surprised when Dave Smith Instruments showed us their new analog workhorse and collaboration with the inimitable Tom Oberheim— the OB6. The allure for the Oberheim polyphonic sound, for us, has always been it's unique melancholic tone colour. No matter what kind of sounds are programmed, Oberheim's tend to have this wonderful midnight music vibe, like driving in a car late at night circa 1983. We're pleased to report that the OB6 captures this sound quality effortlessly and in spades.

Our approach to the design of the factory bank patches we submitted (most of which you hear in the demo) was rather simple: we made the same kinds of sounds we would program on our Oberheims, and barring a couple, largely ones we would find useful in a production context. Though we don't typically record synthesizers with FX printed on the same track, the FX engine is so wonderful sounding on the OB6, and highly controllable, that it made us reconsider. In short, the FX engine is no slouch, and for the many decades spent dismissing the on board FX of most 'modern' synths, this is the first time that we've heard an FX engine exude the same quality as the top end hardware units from Lexicon, Eventide, or AMS that we tend to use in the production process.

Everything you hear on the demo was done entirely on the OB6. Absolutely NO additional FX or sequencers were used. We simply ran the stereo output from the OB6 into a DI and a stereo mic pre amp directly into Pro Tools HD and tracked it in."

DSI / Tom Oberheim - OB6 - live looping demonstration

Published on Jan 21, 2016 Daniel Davis

"DSI / Tom Oberheim - OB6 - live looping demonstration

Live looping demonstration of the new OB6 analog synthesizer. Only used the OB6 and Pigtronix Infinity looper."

I own an OB-Xa and the two videos above nail the sound and then some.

Update2:

NAMM2016 Introducing the New Dave Smith OB 6 Desktop Synth

Published on Jan 21, 2016 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Introducing the New Dave Smith OB 6 Desktop Synth
@dsiSequential

Available soon from
http://www.analoguezone.com/"

NAMM2016: Dave Smith Instruments OB6

Published on Jan 21, 2016 sonicstate

"NAMM2016: Dave Smith Instruments OB6 Dave Smith shows us the new OB6"

DSI / Tom Oberheim - OB6 - Patch Demonstration

Published on Jan 21, 2016 Daniel Davis

"DSI / Tom Oberheim - OB6 - Patch Demonstration

Some patches I made on the new OB-6.

All effects are from the OB-6. No post processing or production."

[NAMM] Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 NAMM Floor Video with Dave Smith & Tom Oberheim

Published on Jan 21, 2016 Audiofanzine in English

"Here's a presentation of Dave Smith Instruments and Tom Oberheim's OB-6 at the NAMM Show 2016."

NAMM 2016 Dave Smith Instruments OB-6

Published on Jan 22, 2016 Kraft Music

"Great deals on Dave Smith Instruments at Kraft Music:
http://www.kraftmusic.com/brands/dave...

Mark from Dave Smith Instruments presents the OB-6 at the 2016 Winter NAMM Show."

Dave Smith OB 6

Published on Jan 21, 2016 musicianews

"Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim team up to create a fantastic sounding new instrument. OB-6 has arrived. Check out the video."

Tom Oberheim OB 6 SEM

Published on Jan 21, 2016 musicianews

"Wow great to see Tom Oberheim and his take on the OB-6, Eurorack SEM and the world of Analog design in the 21st Century!"

NAMM 2015 Sequential Prophet 6 Video with Dave Smith

Published on Jan 22, 2015 musicianews

"We stopped by Dave Smith Instruments to talk to the man himself. Have a look at the new Prophet 6."

Roger Linn Linnstrument at NAMM

Published on Jan 22, 2016 musicianews

"Roger Linn is passionate about new controllers and he tells us why he feels Linnstrument is one that gives much more to the player."

Jean-Michel Jarre NAMM 2017

Published on Jan 19, 2017 musicianews

Some synth talk with Jean-Michel Jarre.

"Let's find out what Jean-Michel Jarre is up to. It's a good thing he is at NAMM 2017 too,,, we bumped into him at the Teenage Engineering Booth. Legend."

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 20, 2012

"Richard shows the New Nord Piano scheduled to be released Feb/Mar"

NAMM Day 1 Moog - SubPhatty

Published on Jan 24, 2013 musicianews·133 videos

"NAMM 2013 Day 1 - We stopped by the Moog booth to see the Sub Phatty featuring Moog's extremely accurate oscillators and the new Multidrive section adding from warmth and width to hard and growl."

Tip Top Audio Drum Module Using the Original 808 Drum Circuits and Polyphonic VCO - Namm 2012

YouTube Uploaded by musicianews on Jan 29, 2012

"Gur from Tip Top Audio shows us his drum machine using the original circuits of the 808 drum module. He also showcased a PVCO (Polyphonic VCO) analog synth."