Oberheim Two Voice Demo Part 1

[petegrind]

Sounds great, buddy! I needs me one of thems.

[MrTank2112]

Very nice job. Love the old Oberheim gear. Trance like indeed!

[hdxcsod]

great demo

[gomer1021]

boards of canada-ish. have they used one?

[MechaSeb76]

Really beautiful demo. Thank you very much. By the way, is this a Serge system on the back ?

[JonP1961]

Nicely done, sir!

By any chance, do you remember Starcastle? Just discovered the remasters and they sound great! For those that don't know, Starcastle's keyboardist, Herb Schildt (yeah, the same one that went on to write the computer programming books) did some really nice stuff on synths, including Oberheim. "Stargate", "Fountains", and "Portraits" are good places to start.

[kworld01]

I have also a pristine TVS-1, current price is $5400 on eBay. I bought it in 1984 for $350!

[Hellchoir]

Beautiful.

[lanzauno]

this is so sweet. probably one of the best synth demos on Youtube. The space station sounds amazing. Too bad I will never be able to afford such an expensive reverb unit...

[lanzauno]

warmest synth of all time?

[dm3857]

well.....how would one learn to play a synthesizer? excpesially a vintage one, i got a oberheim four voice for christmas (because my parents know that i love to make funky music ;) but i have no idea how to play a synth (i can play piano) what do i do!!!

[Phisheadie97]

@dm3857 you got an oberheim four voice synthesizer for christmas from your parents and don't know how to program? How rich are your parents? It'd be an amazing synth to learn on though. But to someone who doesn't know programming - the OB4 must look extremely intimidating. It's much easier to learn synthesis on an analog monosynth.

[ConnorMcLeanMusic]

Man, this is sick. I want one now.

[anoteoftruth]

Is there a way to be able to polychain the new SEM's so that we could create our own 2 voices?

[rhampton1914]

This sounds really good. i like the Warmth and Fat sounds.

Thumbs up on your creating!!!..

[ryanfreer77]

It's about time for Tom Oberheim to reissue these! The Two Voice to the Eight Voice models. You know the SEM has been re-released. It's just a shame that you can't chain multiple SEM modules together to create a multi-voice synth. I'm still gonna buy one though.

[MikeWfromNJ]

@ryanfreer77 I heard somewhere that he had a 2 voice in the works but nothing has materialized. Shame really. He's not got the resources that Oberheim had in its heyday and the 'new' SEM is an achievement in it's own right and we all benefit. Finger crossed through.

[anoteoftruth]

@ryanfreer77 personally I don't see why he wouldn't have just added a polychaining function... even the name incinuates it's used to add extra voices to a existing setup... if we could polychain these together, I'd buy a handful of them.

[WorksopGimp]

sound's BEAUTIFUL

[eskur]

ASTONISHING! 

[plinianguy]

Just like Starcastle :)

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

The 2 voice sound is definitely up there with the likes of the ARP Odyssey.

[egilboth1]

super sequencer

[electro257]

lovely baking sequence

[twelvebits]

gorgeous piece of music! one of the best synth demos i've ever seen.

[Dogboy73]

I ordered a new MIDI>CV SEM not long after my last post on here. They should hopefully be shipping late Jan early Feb.

[Dogboy73]

I love this demo. Great sounds. I'm very tempted by the new Oberheim SEM.

[suitandtieguy]

this is nice. after it was done i wanted a part 2.

[peterkadar]

God it's beautiful...

[nudist0885]

So I saved this one to my "favorites" file.

[nudist0885]

Whew.................'bout time.

Somebody FINALLY made a video of a SONG without any dialogue or interruption to show ALL of the sounds that a synth produces.

[PhotoAnimationGuy]

this is really great, puts me in a kind of nostalgic trance

[SynthaholicNH]

Nice demo, lovely sounding synth. Did you know that Tom Oberheim is making new SEMs? I hope the next step is new Two Voices with the sequencer. :)

[syzygywell]

one can only hope...

[Jantjealleman]

Fantastic...can't say more. Thanks!

[tekkentool]

A+, i love the sound of SEM's and you're doing them serious justice. the bass and lead sounds are classy and perfectly formed. :D

[Franzko787]

@tekkentool

I forget but the SEMs have two VCOs. This Oberheim in the video looks to have two SEMs. So 4 VCOs and two voice was up to 2 notes at a time? I used to go into a music store that sold them at the time and drool. Very tempted to want to buy the new SEM module.

[douglascain]

really beautiful piece. I am really covetous.

[fishybishbash]

yeh nice. So is the two voice like 2 monosynths in one box? Is the sequncer on board?

[tekkentool]

pretty much, and yes.

[JMJarvinenStudio]

The sequence sounds very much

 familiar with Kraftwerk´s "Computer Liebe" (The Mix) =P

[devmiles]

damn, that bass sound at the beginning has blown me away .. just sick it is!

[SashaTrancer]

Nice tune!! Power analog sound! Fantastic! :)

[jetsetcrash]

anyone want to sell me one...i'd even trade my prophet rev 2!!

[moogyboy6]

This reminds me of something from an early episode of "Nova" or "Cosmos" or any number of PBS-type educational TV shows from the late '70s. Wonderful sound! That spacious reverb really makes it imo.

[VacTrooper]

wasn't this song in some awesome 80's movie, like the terminator or something? this is kick ass!

[AcerbicElectronica]

Lovely classy sound....

[oS2006DE]

It's those 2-pole filters. They won't out-squelch a moog or 303 but they have that ability to be a synth sound without taking the rest of the arrangement hostage.

Definitely a cool vid, you should put up more two-voice! :D

[Wyrehedd242]

come on man! open up those filters! lets hear how fat and nasty those oscillators can sound! =)

[Thalassa77]

Hello, I've posted this video on switchedonsynthesizer.blogspot . com

Thanks

[bistroman99999]

I bought this unit in 1976 at West LA Music, and went to the Oberheim factory in Santa Monica, where they not only answered all my questions, but I was also given a programming tutorial by a man named Gary Mielke, who was their head technician. You can Google him. He went on to work with SUpertramp and others.

John

[bistroman99999]

Thanks for the input. Both SEM's and power supply seem to work as well as the day I bought it. What do you mean by recapped? Thanks again for your time.

[bistroman99999]

I bought this 2 voice in 1976, and still own it. It has been in storage for 20 years, and works perfectly. Does anyone know what it is worth?

Thanks

[therealretrosynth]

If it's been in storage for 20 years then it isn't likely to be working perfectly. The pots probably need cleaning if not replacement and both the power supply and and SEMs may need recapped. In very clean condition fully checked out by a competent tech it'd fetch $2500 on ebay. If untested or questionable condition it's worth $1500-2000. Without sequencer it'll be worth $500 less.

[renegadesoundwaves]

This was a synth that was always slighty out of my budget so i stuck with mini's and prophets etc...i think i missed out listening to this demo!

[nvanzoeren]

nice demo for sure but where is PART2!?

[therealretrosynth]

The video camera I have access to isn't able to record line input audio so I recorded the audio to DAT. The freebie video editing stuff in windows is so infuriating I gave up trying to sync the audio for parts 2 and 3 to the video.

[nvanzoeren]

I dont mind just the music, we all know how it looks like :P

So upload those files!!!

[magevers]

Awesome demo and a fantastic sounding analog

Oberheim, 5*!

Thanks!

[plateymatey]

Sounds well spacey, thanks for sharing!

ps. someones currently selling one of these on ebay uk - £3500 theyre asking!!!!! :(

[therealretrosynth]

As stated in the description I used a Seven Woods Audio SST-206 Space Station.

[Jauly]

the sst-206 space station is a reverb machine

[marsupialmicron]

Fantastic demo. Awesome synth and player cheers!!!

[oS2006DE]

Not bad for 12db filters. Really good in fact!

[MANGSCHEUONiCS]

awesome

[GCom67]

Quality classic synth!!

[shaft9000]

so lovely...and expensive!!

[kontour3]

That sequence sounds nice... These machines are quality.

[zable95]

What is that?

[pauleyh]

i really like how u programmed the sequencer there

[pauleyh]

i own alot of oberhiem synths

[myleftnutts]

Do u own any of the "Modulars"? they are the only "Truly

Multitimbral Analogs" ever on the market,NONE since then.

u think that 2 Voice was awesome,u would die if u ever heard the 8 Voice,it had 16 oscs that u could tune individually,and 8 individual Filters.

[pauleyh]

i own the eight voice it is pretty bad ass

[HipHopSweden]

would you by any chance sell it to me?

[pauleyh]

no. check on ebay form time to time you might find one on there

[walterclosette]

i like this sounds

[zable95]

sounds like a video game

[blapo38]

Very nice video and nice rig as well.You have good taste in music and obviously know how to get the best from those machines.Hope I hadn't sold my FourVoice!

[fischek]

sounds excellent - the arp. part in combination with the bass and solo reminds me of tangerine dream (am I wrong to think that?)