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It’s a hat-trick of vintage synths

Just when you thought we’d run out of synth emulations, three more pop up

> Like us you probably thought that every classic synth had already been emulated, rebuilt, reworked, built again, modelled, remodelled, souped up, dressed down and generally turned into software. Not so because we have not one but three new ones to bring you here!

First out of the blocks are GForce Software, developers who are not exactly known for their fast release rate. Like the Bethesda of plugins they rarely release stuff, but you sit up and take notice when they do. So we weren’t expecting much in the way of new stuff since they only relatively recently released the rather great Oberheim OB-E. But hot on its heels and just in time for Tom Oberheim’s birthday – and indeed indorsed by him – comes GForce’s Oberheim SEM.

As it happens GForce collaborated with Obeheim on the OB-E and found out that Tom didn’t think there was an accurate emulation of the original 1974 SEM synth.

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