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Oberheim OB-X8 £4,799

The day has finally arrived – anew Oberheim synthesiser is here. And it’s not just any old synth with the Oberheim name stuck on – it’s the real deal. In a similar manner to Dave Smith’s journey back to using the Sequential name, Tom Oberheim can again create synths under his own name. Interestingly, there is a little more that connects these two almost parallel events than one might first suspect. Before he died Dave Smith made the legendary Prophet-5 live again in the shape of the Sequential Prophet-5 Rev 4. This took elements of circuit design from the two main original production versions (Rev 2 and Rev

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