From majortom@muc.deFri May 19 10:10:43 1995 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 19:03:18 +0200 From: mw To: ANALOGUE@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: ??? Q: OBX vs OBXa vs OB8 jeanniel@merle.acns.nwu.edu writes: > what are the differences in: > among OBX, OBXa and OB8 I've had the OB-8, the OB-Xa and the X in that order in short sucession. I've loved every one of them, and each one impressed me even more... They have very different characters, it's hard to say that one of them sounds best, if I could I would like to have all of them. Given the choice though, I'd go for the OB-X but this is solely a matter of personal taste! It's hard to explain the differences in sound with words, but they are clearly audioable... The 8 is great, clean, soft and sweet and full of harmony, the Xa is lot more "dirty" then the 8 and I think just a tad fuller sounding through this, it's a bit of a brute actually. For me the X has the strongesty personality of them all, if you know what I mean. It's very much alive. It's sound can be best described as the "richest" and "warmest". It lacks some options from the later models like real 2. LFO, or doubled sounds, or arpeggiator but I don't really miss them, because it makes even with the cross-mod option, which none of the others have and this does open a whole new world of sound variations. One of the things I've come to judge synths by is the way they can do "music" on their own. I like to hold a chord for litarally hours on end and having the synth do it's own thing with modulaton etc. And all OBs were champions at entertaining me that way. Hope that helps. >|||||||||||||| Have you hugged your moog today? ||||||||||||||| Yes. (mw)