Oberheim 8 Voice

[blapo38]

Massive! By now the most enjoyable 17:23 min of the year. Only playing the real thing can better this.

[ks07970]

An excellant reveiw of an excellant instrument by someone who actually knows what there talking about.

[PeteMOBie1]

Fantastic overview of the 8 Voice from the mystical past of synthesiser mythology. This makes a good video tutorial too. Tom's new Son Of Four looks even more tempting. There is just something about the imperfections between voices on these older machines that adds an X Factor into the character of the sounds.

[kellysereda]

Thanks for sharing your engaging look at this rare beast. I owned a 4-voice until several years ago and listening to your stacks brought back all the things I loved about it. I really liked the layered track at the end, your 'live' sequencing another layer of analogue in itself.

[devmiles]

insane!

[lordoid]

Holy Batman wall of sound....oufff. oO

[henrytmg]

Very clear explaint and what a possibilities und sounds!!

Last weekend I had the first time in my life the possibility to play on a Oberheim OP-Xa and a Minimoogthe during the Museum Night in Basel

[sako5637]

I'm a grown man, and I think I just wet myself.... :-)

[SamDelil]

OUCH ! the sound !!

[gilwe]

I'm willing to trade this for a kidney :D

[clarius1973]

Scary walls of sounds.... A real monster, impressive even today.

[TR0jAX]

this is a monstersynth o_O

[dracena]

very good video. finally we can hear an 8voice in detail. thanks!

[rdproductions01]

Is a 8vs a 4vs with an expansion module or is the keyboard section different?

[9P6T]

Very good and informative video. Too many synth videos are pointless noodling without always having very good sounds nether.

[dhampex]

Man herbie Hancock back in the 70s to early 80s use to make some complex difficult out of this world, spacey deep scary wonderful beautiful tears of joy, taking many breaths away type of sound on the oberheim poly 8 voice. I remember his sounds on the sunlight albums and others, he had the white beast synth in there with the multi sound brass patch that was panned individually. Still this day I want one, now I can get tom oberheim new on (son of 4 voice) and stack an extra for 8!!!! Great demo

[youwantotestmykungfu]

I used to own a 4 voice and it was obvious playing it as a polyphonic synth with all the SEM's exactly the same was missing the point, yes the modulations options are very limited, but because you can program each SEM individually you can create sounds not possible on any other polysynth, and the multimode filters are fantastic, the overall sound is probably the best or one of the best I have heard along with the CS80 & PS3200 which both have 12dB filters.

Thanks for sharing ;)

[rg2027x]

bombastic unison potential

[Hot80s]

15:34 please extend to a full-length song I love it!!!

[Hot80s]

i dont want my 17:23 back.

(from my ears) I thank You.

[angie4josh]

please make a vst so mortals like me can try and get close?

[ArtlyThere]

11:45 rules the cosmos. Awesome demo, thanks so much. Whoa...14:10 too... One thing I've always like about the SEM based synths was the plain black and white color scheme. Very cool swell at 17:13.

[stryker1999]

Really surprising how powerful this old dinosaur is, and still how alive. Now if I only had $10,000 lying around...

[tommorellorules]

WANT!

[faithskater72]

Incredible! This thing sounds just incredible!

[erstbesteiger]

exellent!

[hanibal207]

very interesting

[KorgAddict1]

I....but....wow..

[jakobsweb]

OMG ... this sound truely makes me weak in the knees. I have a soft spot for SEM type sounds. thanx for sharing this :-)

[CW2SCOGG]

I'll take two for the home studio, thanks!

[alphabeets]

Great video!

[noizy4]

This has to be one of the best demos on YouTube

[Yuwipiman]

My first synth. ahhh this demo brought back nostalgia

[dengdiddididdi]

very nice indeed

[quartersines]

Absolutely Superb presentation of this amazing instrument. This and an ARP 2600 changed my course in music and sound. Thank You for putting this together. Inspiring!

[panulli4]

Ohh my god! WOW! I'm speechless!

[thePOLYGIRL]

wow ! what a great synth ! i understand now why you loving so much ! : )

[keyboardjeff]

The sound on 8:22 really blew my mind!!!!! I really love this synth. With this synth you can do things you couldn't do on other synth's.

[mcmike100]

Great video. In the days of minimal presets, I used to do synth programming at studios for the 4-voice, CS80 and Prophet 5.

[grigoridj]

You probably won't believe how many times I returned to this video just to listen to the sound at 5:35 :)

[Geeljasjes]

Another very famous user of this synth was Joe Zawinul.

Listen to Heavy Weather by Weather Report, or type in Weather Report Rockpalast.

[U5096]

Really enjoyed watching this, i've never really thought much of the 8-voice until now, what a fantastic machine! 

[Mikemaniax]

I absolutely love these old synthesizers, for the very reasons that you have just described. And it frustrates me to no end when people don't understand the point of old synthesizers is to not have a "perfect" sound, but to embrace the imperfections and use those imperfections to make some truly interesting sounds.

[CoolColJ]

Sounds a bit like my SE Omega Code 8 or the otehrway around :)

Nice diddty at the end

[MarcJX8P]

Wonderful stuff - and as usual highly entertaining!

[elblechardt]

awsome

[pmanderson70]

Great video!

[tryptychUK]

One of my all-time fave synths. Great demo, thanks fora great nostalgia trip!

[pseudomass]

Lovely video. Thank you for making it.