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"Highly Anticipated Tom Oberheim/Dave Smith Collaboration Now Available
San Francisco, CA—March 3, 2016—Dave Smith Instruments today announced that the OB-6, a new 6-voice analog synthesizer with discrete VCOs and filters developed in collaboration with Tom Oberheim, has begun shipping. 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 flexibility of modern technology.
Said Smith: “It’s been great fun working with Tom to create this synth. People are going to be blown away by how awesome the OB-6 sounds.” Added Oberheim: “The classic, unmistakable SEM tone is all there. It’s big and bold and it’s going to turn a lot of heads.”
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 filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch) per voice. Voltage-controlled amplifiers complete the all-analog signal path.
Present also is X-Mod, with filter envelope and oscillator 2 as modulation sources (with bi-polar control). Destinations include oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 1 shape, oscillator 1 pulse width, filter cutoff, and filter mode. The knob-per-function front panel puts virtually all parameters at a user’s fingertips. Toggling on the Manual switch enables live panel mode, in which the OB-6 switches to the current settings of its knobs and switches.