From tmoravan@netcom.comWed Jun 21 11:13:56 1995 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 04:39:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Moravansky To: b-4@morebbs.com Cc: analog Subject: Re: 8 voice > Ok, after having talked to many people I know I am convinced that this synth > does not really exist. I have seen a picture of one, but it doesn't seem like > anyone I have ever talked to about analog gear has ever seen one or knows > someone with one. There is actually 2 (or 3) different 8-voice configurations. The most common (I have this version) is a 4-voice with another 4 SEMs in a separate box with power supply. The Programmer in the 4-voice has 2 extra circuit boards to address the additional 4 voices. There are 3 cables with Molex connectors on the ends that join the 2 boxes. Keyboard modes rotate through all 8 voices, or split them 2/6 or 4/4 (instead of rotating through 4 and having 1/3 2/2 splits). The rarer version has all 8 SEMs in one case and a dual manual keyboard with programmer, etc in another case. There were very few of these made. The final variation is the same as the dual manual one, except that it has the Oberheim sequencer (from the 2-voice) in the bottom section as well. Don't know how many of these were ever delivered. In all honesty, an 8-voice is overkill. What I'm planning on doing is pulling the extra programmer boards and making it into a 4-voice and then have 4 SEMs to patch into separately. IMHO the 'best' SEM configuration is the 2-voice. 2 SEMs, keyboard and sequencer. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Moravansky tmoravan@netcom.com quiet electronics From fEEd@maroon.tc.umn.eduWed Jun 21 11:15:59 1995 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 09:30:37 CST From: fEEd To: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: 8 voice On Wed, 21 Jun 1995 04:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Tom Moravansky wrote: >IMHO the 'best' SEM configuration is the 2-voice. 2 SEMs, keyboard and >sequencer. I second you on this one brother. My 2 voice makes me smile just thinking about it, especially after we put ~40 interfacing jacks on the SEMs and the sequencer module. Tho the seq\s&h module is small in size, don't underestimate it, Oberheim put alot of thinking into that little baby. You can (via easily modding your jacks) get all 3 quantized cv outs (seq1, seq2, s&h), 2 unquantized outs (seq1, seq2) with a larger range (ala the arp sequencers), clock in, clock out, 2 cv ins for transposing, s&h in so you can use something other than white noise as a sample base, and a load of other stuff of other that baby. A 2 voice packs more punch than any synth that size I can think of. last night, a friend of mine was telling me that he called up marion systems to talk to Tom Oberheim about modding various oberheim pieces and he got put right through to him! My friend started out with some small talk about marion systems to which tom reacted very calmly . AS SOON AS my friend complimented the older oberheim stuff and asked if he could get some info, Tom went ballistic. "THEY STOLE OBERHEIM FROM ME! THEY STOLE IT I TELL YOU! THOSE LOUSY.......". Tom kept going on and on in quite a loud manner about how marion systems was gonna bury oberheim and he would get all the bastards who stole oberheim from him until finally my friend just had to hang up. Very strange, tho my friend wants to do it again and record it for his webpage. Click here to hear Tom Oberheim have a coniption......... Rob fEEd/>tEMpESt<\http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/m211/feed/<\fEEd@maroon.tc.umn.edu/> "FILTER MAINTENANCE- After every 100 hours of operation apply a sine wave to the output of the FILTER to back flush the trapped overtones to unclog your filter." - EML 101 Manual From void@slip.netWed Jun 21 11:20:33 1995 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:39:11 -0700 From: M St3v3ns To: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: 8 voice oberheim poly ARRR, mateys, it is Ayyyy, Lx makin the pyrate post from void's studio deck! arr arr! the 8 voice sem based oberheim poly housed the additional 4 sem's in a sort of truncated wing cabinet. i believe there's pictures of it in old keybored interviews with lyle mays and the cat from weather report. arr arr. damn parrot! it was the same width as the 4 voice, and the half space to the left held a second one of those four input mixers, methinks. you hooked the wing to the main with a multipin and placed it directly behind the 4 sems in the main cab. supposedly there was yet another config with 6 voices - the remaining blank spaces were covered with white metal plates with the oberheim logo screened on. last ob sem note...arr.... the 2 voice was available in budget configs which had a) no analog sequencer or b) one sem, no analog sequencer. to the best of my knowledge, there were no added features on the 8 voice. arr arrrr At 12:48 AM 6/21/95, b-4@morebbs.com wrote: >Ok, after having talked to many people I know I am convinced that this synth >does not really exist. I have seen a picture of one, but it doesn't seem like >anyone I have ever talked to about analog gear has ever seen one or knows >someone with one. >I was actually curious about what the setup is on the 8 voice. I know that >there were some differences between the 2 & 4 voice, can't really remember >what they were though. Does the 8 voice have added features over the 4 voice >to make use of the extra sems? > >Brian **************** * |\\ /|| * * ||\\ //|| * if they outlaw privacy, * || \\ // || * only outlaws will have privacy. * || \\// || * **************** M Stevens void@slip.net