Oberheim XPander sounds

[steveavison]

any daft bastard could do this,,,,

[thermalmaximum]

@steveavison Yeah, I saw your video, really great!

[steveavison]

@thermalmaximum you must mean the one of paint drying?

[petersedin]

wow.. love this sounds..

[JUPITERGANG]

it's poor . i hear nothing interesting. Play more energically !

[stuthomson]

Love the incredibly wet fart at 00:11

[adolfcastro]

Yes . i had one. they sound good but too many options not enough nobs and i don't like the continuous dials. love the obx, ob1 and sem. 12db filters make me dribble at a cerain frequency. they're magic

[CerebralTantrum]

I owned one back in the mid '90s. Lots of parameters, yes.. lots of modulators, yes.. lots of knobs, yes, lots of LEDs, yes.. still I never liked it.. :-|

[vjrei]

You know... I believed I was the only one who think the Oberheim Expander and the Matrix 12 are way overrated. I mean, I haven't see anything WOW! about them. Probably they sound really strong, yes, but I rather have an access Virus Polar instead or Nord Wave to really do WOW things.

I haven't seen the first video in youtube with a real unusual sound or anything done with those synths. Poepl just repeat "they are the collest" but they just sound old and flat and are totally boring.

[Marcy1Darcy]

@vjrei The real magic happens when you use all six voices to make one sound, not just strict unison, but a six voice analog 'stack' with different sounds on every voice along with panning, etc. Very different from a Jupiter in unison (I have an MKS-80/MPG-80 to compare) It just depends how far you want to go, and what your goal is. The Xpander is a programmers tool, not an 'instant gratification' synth. -M

[thermalmaximum]

@Marcy1Darcy Only problem there is that the MKS-80 is the guts of a Jupiter-6 in a box, not a Jupiter-8.

[isaacrife08]

my dad had two in the 80's i wish he kept them :/

[rpsxnu]

WOW.

[diegoesk]

Sounds like the OMega 8 Synth!..

[Biopharmer]

? The Studio electronics one? Yeah, but buying an Omega 8 will set you back more than a used Xpander for sure.

[666PaulKersey666]

I have got one of these and I will never sell it. All you have to do with an oldie like this is to check/change the capacitors on the power supply board and replace the litium battery and all will be great. If you would like a demonstration on what it can sound like you can listen to Allan Holdsworth's album SAND.

[locobeis]

yes, he is using it there with his syntaxe, great, great indeed.

[PhotoAnimationGuy]

sounds awesome, screw da haterz sounds great awesome patches!

[Paardekut]

Possibly the most overrated synth ever.

Sounds shite and they're overpriced.

You have to be carefull not to buy the Japanese models. Very unreliable.

[badcommentleaver]

Dont buy one of these marked up really high.

[SurfingOnSineWaves]

Those last two patches are wonderful.

Nice programming, I really like what I hear!

[waretape]

I think that there is a problem on the synth. I am vintage collector from Synthex to Jupiters, and moog etc. and i know that this is not the standard sound of the synth -propably battery instability.

[Terrysg4]

Michael Cretu & Sandra used that synth in their old Data Alpha studio in Munich.

so many hits like Maria Magdalena, In The Heat Of The Night, Heaven Can Wait etc...

[benbensimon77]

thanks for this great info.

i found another video: jBS1Yv3wE0I

[theau61]

seems more "consistant" or full than any jupiter ? Worth it ?

[benbensimon77]

Well. The sound is straighter. Its a bit colder as well. I Didn't have time to test the envelope syet (jupiter 8 is awesome for that to do some fast agressive basses).

But generally, I would say its more "interesting" and that you can make

more complex sounds as well.

so yeah ! if you can find one, go for it !

[theau61]

weird, it sounds like an 8bits synth ? Or maybe it's the sound quality ?

Nice tune at the end.

Another great piece of gear you have there !

[benbensimon77]

yeah, it has this "stepiness" in the grain :-/

but also i sample at a low rate for the video