Oberheim OB-X vs. SonicProjects OP-X

http://www.sonicprojects.ch
OB-X rev.2 and SonicProjects OP-X compared - not exactly tweaked the same but tried to copy the character

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Oberheim
• OB-X
• OB-Xa
• OB-8
• Van
• Halen
• Jump
• Rush

[HeathHensel]

I think you have to consider the fun factor of analog synths. Computers can sometimes suck the life out of you. Make my funk the P-FUNK

[virtualoberheim]

One of the great things about real analog synths is the physics. They really can be inspiring by themselves - metal, wood, big knobs, the clicking of the buttons, even the smell. It's something real. But everyone who owns real analog hardware synths will agree that there are too a lot of disadvantages - weight, big size, breaking electronics (!!), no midi, limited memory, noise, lacking flexibility etc. etc..So when software can catch the sound up to 95% this is still a great experience! :-)

[bigmartin3000]

I own an OBX 8 voice and its never sounded as thin and tinny as either of these.

[virtualoberheim]

Audio is bad indeed, due to combined wmv and youtube compression - neither of them sounds thin at all in reality - I'll probably soon put a better video; Youtube is simply no suitable place to judge audio details - plus audio of these was recorded completely dry directly to wav, no room impression at all; this makes them a bit hard and unrounded

[MacXpert74]

Well they did a nice job on the simulation. It comes quite close to the real thing. But I hate to say it, the real OB-X sounds better! There is a undeniable smoothness and warmth to the real thing that the simulation lacks. Basically, the real own sounds alive / floating, while the simulation sound to clean and dead.

[virtualoberheim]

Clean and dead? Did you actually try it out? No one on earth has said that so far about OP-X, including many famous artists and many reviewers in big magazines; YouTube is a bad medium to judge sound details

[imbadewa]

what's the POINT of analog synth if it's end up in DAW?

[skylineXpert]

sonicprojects op-x go home

[Chlysm]

@virtualoberheim

My piano teacher who is pretty old school told me that he really hasn't been too impressed with digital synths until about 7 years ago or so,

[Andrij09]

@rickhorvath I can repair it, but where are you from? I´m from Germany and I have repaired many synth.

[SPAZZOID100]

@virtualoberheim

VST's cannot be used forever, because they are always tied to an operating system.

Once the OS doesn't support it any longer, you either are fucked or must keep around a very old computer running an old OS to have your favorite VST's still usable.

Hardware is better for me, because it runs on it's own...

[SPAZZOID100]

@ivan00000006

The ION is fantastic. I've owned one for two years and sounds totally analog.

[SPAZZOID100]

you couldn't have matched the volumes a bit better?

[Neuronaluniverse]

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