I got one when they came out. In the early 80's. Could do some cool stuff with that many voices. I even used it on a Willie Nelson album to simulate a harmonica. I messed with it till it sounded just like one. Also got the Memory Moog but the DX7 with the card cage full of DX7 modules quickly became the go to sound of that era. You could make it sound like anything too. You were only limited by your own imagination. It really had a good solid digital sound of it's own. For greasy analog those old Moogs, Arps and Oberheims still rule.
That synth made van Halen jump work. Lyle mays created his signature hollow Reed whistling soundsscapes with OB-8. Rush used it to stand out from the rock crowd. The OB-8 was the synth equivalent of the baseball utility man , all around usefulness. Thanks Claudio for bringing the history.
That synth wasn't use in van halen jump the synth that was used was the older version of it the oberheim ob-Xa but theory said that an even older version the ob-x was used in studio
Lyle Mays used an 8 voice or a 4 voice Oberheim, not an OB-8. Rush used an OB-X. Jump was recorded on an OB-X but the video features an OB-Xa. The OB-8 was not there for literally any of that stuff.
A bunch of coked-up dudes designing monolithic instruments where price is no object? Something interesting is bound to come out. The 80s were certainly a different time lol
Tuve la oportunidad de tocar uno cuando estudiaba, mas o menos por el año 1985, y casi me caigo de espaldas!! El poder y la belleza de los sonidos de este instrumento son increíbles!! Gracias por el video!!
stunning, this is how good the synths were the first time around. nothing on the market right now compares to the breadth and depth of the original vintage synths.
I still have my OB-8 (and DMX and DSX) from 1982. One of my favorite "OB-8 albums" is _Into The Gap,_ by Thompson Twins, produced by Alex Sadkin. (Also, the stuff by The System, although I think David Frank may have used an OB-Xa, predecessor to the OB-8.) Oh... and *_no way_* Kool & the Gang's _Summer Madness_ (4:38) was recorded on an OB; it was recorded in 1973.
Luscious, simply luscious. This synth is the sonic canvas Prince used in creating what we now know as the Minneapolis Sound. Respect and RIP to the Purple One. Excellent video, your playing skills are incredible BTW.
What a wonderful sounding machine! Also loved your reactions at the weirder presets, you were like "wtf am I supposed to do with this?" The jamming was nice too, you seem like a great musician.
Jump was played on an OBX at first but it kept breaking down. The rest of the 1984 album was finished on an OBXA. Yes in the jump video he is playing an OBXa. The 5150 album was the OB8.
@Freline It was the OBX... The iconic sound of Jump was played on an Oberheim keyboard. According to Wikipedia: The Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer was used in the video of “Jump”, and can be seen in video footage from their follow-up tour. However, it is a common misconception that it was used on the recording itself. The recording features its predecessor Oberheim OB-X, played through a Marshall amplifier stack. Even though it features a somewhat thicker sound than the OB-Xa, due to its discrete circuitry used instead of Curtis chips, it had a bad reputation of being unstable on the road. www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/06/30/van-halen-jump-demo-oberheim-obx-a/
Wow! That brass patch at 6:32 is fantastic! There needs to be a superhero named OberMan. He'll look like the Oberheim logo, but with a cape. His catchphrase can be "It's Ober time!"
I come here to ear your "demo presets" because I love the riffs you play . You're really a great keyboard player. Every keyboard sounds amazing in your hands, they "come alive". Please don't stop these demos!! Thanks, man.
This dude is so much fun...cause he still has the enthusiasm we had when synths were new. It was, and still is, to some of us, like being a wizard at Hogwarts. YeeHaw! I love these classic synths!
I liked the Rocky part! Your channel is great and you are an entertaining and funny guy! I also listened to the thriller theme a 100 times or more. Greetings from Austria.
Would love to see a video about pushing things to the extreme on cheaper stuff like Yamaha PSS-470 aka Soundblaster keyboard. (And yes I know the 8-bit Guy video)
Emuator vst or real analog? I've heard some Com Truise songs. It's rare to see synthwave artists use real analog syntheizers, not everyone has the privilege to use one. :(
I sold all my studio including all analog (exotics) like 30 years ago. MiniMoogs, Polaris, M12, OB8, P5, PPG, AX60. Never regretted it. It's a myth. We're 2019. No one cares. It's a myth. Blind tests have proven that people can not tell the difference in final music productions. On top, everybody is listening to crappy mp3. Including TH-cam compression...wake up. It's a myth. Sylenth or Electra-X sounds as good and maybe even better, on condition you use high quality DAC's. And I don't mean Motu or RME... One way or the other, nowadays it's cool to have analog synths while musically wise, it's a myth kept alive in special by factories and brands making you believe analog sounds better. Well, for starters, try to describe 'good' sound...can you tell me what standard I should use...??
@@sK3LeTvM1 Bought my first jupiter 8 in 2001 for 1900.00. My first mint juno 60 in 2001 for 150.00. Prophet 5 in 2002 for 800.00. OBXA 1000.00, OB8 700.00.. Juno 106 150.0... Good times... gone forever!
Sold my OB-8 Silk screen with midi for €900, the Jupitwer-8 that I bought for €800 for 1200, Prophet 5 Rev for 300-400. I also had two Juno 106, a MS-20 that I got for €90, a mini-moog serial 11167. All in the 90s. Still have the Oberheim M6R though that I got for 300.
@@sK3LeTvM1 I agree. But I would play around more with physical knobs any day than I would the digital counterparts. But sounds I agree no one knows the difference.
I like the sounds at 1:40 onwards. I feel like I've heard those sounds on a song sometime a long time ago, but have no idea on what. In general though, I love the sound of Oberheims. So rich and deep and powerful and electric.
Your comment about new kit triggering creativity is so right. Just bought a MODX 7 based on various reviews on TH-cam (yourself included). What a piece of kit! I'm hooked on it. :-D
Great demonstration really knocked this one out of the park can’t wait till Behringer puts the clone out of the XA. I wonder if I’ll feel like I’m three years old all over again listening to jump.
Beautiful souding synth, but I have to say its so BIG- possibly one of the biggest polysynths bar the Yamaha CS80, which as we all know was a HUGE beautiful MONSTER-SYNTH!
Has anyone of you ever played GTA IV? Every time i watch doctor mix, it makes me remember Bernie from GTA IV mixed with "Bruno" played by Sacha Baron Cohen, I don't know why maybe because of the accent.
Man, I'm such a fan of yours. Beside the fact that I love all that vintage gear (my birthyear is 1971, so yeah..) and that you give clear explenations... You're just fun to watch. Somehow you make me smile every time again. Keep up the good job.. I'll be following you!
Good playing Doctor Mix, i remember this Synth in the 80s seeing it on Top of the Pops late Summer 84 when Blancmange played Abba cover The Day before you came from their Mange Tout album and Stephen Luscombe was dressed in Indian clothes sounded cool and then hearing it as a demo in Electronic soundmaker and computer music in early 1985 on a cassette with the expander. 😁
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I got one when they came out. In the early 80's. Could do some cool stuff with that many voices. I even used it on a Willie Nelson album to simulate a harmonica. I messed with it till it sounded just like one. Also got the Memory Moog but the DX7 with the card cage full of DX7 modules quickly became the go to sound of that era. You could make it sound like anything too. You were only limited by your own imagination. It really had a good solid digital sound of it's own. For greasy analog those old Moogs, Arps and Oberheims still rule.
Oh you got a memory moog those things cost of 8 grand and moog one
Don't you think the ob8 sounds more massive compared to a dx7?
@@oakridgemusic just sound different better than other synthesizer
@@oakridgemusic Two different animals. Analog sounds fatter and softer. Digital is thin and hard. Both do some cool sounds.
That synth made van Halen jump work. Lyle mays created his signature hollow Reed whistling soundsscapes with OB-8. Rush used it to stand out from the rock crowd. The OB-8 was the synth equivalent of the baseball utility man , all around usefulness. Thanks Claudio for bringing the history.
That synth wasn't use in van halen jump the synth that was used was the older version of it the oberheim ob-Xa but theory said that an even older version the ob-x was used in studio
Lyle Mays used an 8 voice or a 4 voice Oberheim, not an OB-8. Rush used an OB-X. Jump was recorded on an OB-X but the video features an OB-Xa. The OB-8 was not there for literally any of that stuff.
It is funny how the 80s Synth Sounds sound way more futuristic than today's intruments
A bunch of coked-up dudes designing monolithic instruments where price is no object? Something interesting is bound to come out. The 80s were certainly a different time lol
Exactly and always more RETRO!
it just has way more character
Love that synth, i had a dx7, prophet 600, and ensoniq 16+ as my set up, many moons ago, great times.
I still have my ESQ-1. It needs capacitors replaced.
Put a good reverb on it and you can spend there the rest of your life
Javig * I agree completely. A nice lexicon pcm81
Ttue
Tuve la oportunidad de tocar uno cuando estudiaba, mas o menos por el año 1985, y casi me caigo de espaldas!! El poder y la belleza de los sonidos de este instrumento son increíbles!! Gracias por el video!!
stunning, this is how good the synths were the first time around. nothing on the market right now compares to the breadth and depth of the original vintage synths.
True, but you also need to keep in mind that this was a top of the line, flagship synth that cost around $11,000.00 adjusted for inflation.
@@litemakr 110k?
@@litemakr
And now it’ll be rereleased between 4-6k. Still premium-but with more faithful features.
1:09 The A2 preset gives me chills , so warm and clean it's marvelous
I still have my OB-8 (and DMX and DSX) from 1982. One of my favorite "OB-8 albums" is _Into The Gap,_ by Thompson Twins, produced by Alex Sadkin. (Also, the stuff by The System, although I think David Frank may have used an OB-Xa, predecessor to the OB-8.)
Oh... and *_no way_* Kool & the Gang's _Summer Madness_ (4:38) was recorded on an OB; it was recorded in 1973.
Luscious, simply luscious. This synth is the sonic canvas Prince used in creating what we now know as the Minneapolis Sound. Respect and RIP to the Purple One. Excellent video, your playing skills are incredible BTW.
Don't forget that he used an OBX and a 4 voice as well.
Jimmy jam harris plays that ob8 him and terry produced janet jackson control album the s.o.s band human league Alexander o neal cherrelle
What a wonderful sounding machine! Also loved your reactions at the weirder presets, you were like "wtf am I supposed to do with this?" The jamming was nice too, you seem like a great musician.
Tom Oberheim said the OB8 was the best synth he ever made. Sounds great.
I love seeing your enthusiasm for classic synths. Thats real love there.
1:55, i think i have a crush on a chord progression now
Foxyyy I keep replaying this video just for that beautiful fucking progression lol
Time to steal that chord progression.
@@alanpartridge3972 Glad I wasnt the only one
I’m pretty sure it’s the intro for funeral for a friend or what not. The first track off of goodbye yellow brick road
One of the great synths of all time! OB-8!!
You got chops brah,got to respect a man who has skills.
What you played at 4:45 is virtually identical (even down to the note played) to the synth part in Safety Dance!! Which is great because i love it! 😁😁
Your channel inspires me to just go out and buy a synth to make my own jams. Your videos just have a unique charm to them!
Favorite synth sounds are the ones used in Styx’s “Mr Roboto” and the middle section of “Come sail away”.
Jump was played on an OBX at first but it kept breaking down. The rest of the 1984 album was finished on an OBXA. Yes in the jump video he is playing an OBXa. The 5150 album was the OB8.
@Freline It was the OBX... The iconic sound of Jump was played on an Oberheim keyboard. According to Wikipedia:
The Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer was used in the video of “Jump”, and can be seen in video footage from their follow-up tour. However, it is a common misconception that it was used on the recording itself. The recording features its predecessor Oberheim OB-X, played through a Marshall amplifier stack. Even though it features a somewhat thicker sound than the OB-Xa, due to its discrete circuitry used instead of Curtis chips, it had a bad reputation of being unstable on the road. www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/06/30/van-halen-jump-demo-oberheim-obx-a/
@ 3:12 Van Halen Feels So Good ❤️
Wow! That brass patch at 6:32 is fantastic!
There needs to be a superhero named OberMan. He'll look like the Oberheim logo, but with a cape. His catchphrase can be "It's Ober time!"
Hahahaha here it comes: OoooooooooooooberMan!!!
Play time is OBER
I guess ill be working ober time!
Aw, man, get Ober it. :-D
reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D
Did not know that Jump tone was so simple, Thx! ...Always inspired by your informative vids!
I come here to ear your "demo presets" because I love the riffs you play . You're really a great keyboard player. Every keyboard sounds amazing in your hands, they "come alive". Please don't stop these demos!! Thanks, man.
That rocky fanfare part was simply perfect.
Nice to see another Coupe lover out there.
Greetings from Germany.
actually that sound is from a DX7, it's a known DX factory preset
Synthesizer Home The original song was recorded in 1976. 7 years before the DX7 existed.
@@SPAZZOID100 You are confusing things here... we all refer to ROUND ONE - THEME FROM ROCKY which was recorded in 1985
@@synthesizerhome2041 no. You are wrong
huge respect for playing all of them pretty much perfectly
Dude your aura... It's awesome.
He is one of the most loveable people on youtube. period.
How can people have so much energy and passion hehe. It’s cool.
3:20 sounds a lot like Van Halen - Feels So Good.
It's also th-cam.com/video/FuJpalsj9sQ/w-d-xo.html
sounds like a part of riders in the storm to me
@@ADNI.GREY. same/similar chords
@@ADNI.GREY. for me sounds like "Light My Fire"
Yep
Some beautifully ethereal sounds coming from that beast of a synth. Awesome.
This dude is so much fun...cause he still has the enthusiasm we had when synths were new. It was, and still is, to some of us, like being a wizard at Hogwarts. YeeHaw! I love these classic synths!
Gotta noodle around with an Oberheim Four Voice too. The ultimate funky disco synth of the late 70’s.
what a beautiful synth
You have fun - we have fun! Thanks!
That pad at 2 minutes is pornographic
you are simply fantastic !
definty 2:00
I’m having my Oberheim OB-8 delivered this Monday! It’s a late 1985 B5 Model. Tech approved, MIDI and everything..... 🥃
Probably why I like Prince's pad sounds so much...
@@gabriels1869 me too!
When I hear Oberheims I remember those Styx albums from the 70s
What can you like more than someone who is truly enthused by music?
LAST CHRISTMAS.... (!) VERY WELL DONE. YOU MAKE KEITH EMERSON PROUD.
Very proficient and passionate presenter and a great, classic keyboard! Thank you.
It is a keyboard that has made history and will make music history for a long time to come
Whatever that was at 2:26, I LOVE it 😍
I liked the Rocky part!
Your channel is great and you are an entertaining and funny guy! I also listened to the thriller theme a 100 times or more. Greetings from Austria.
That synth is heard all over the Prince 1999 album.
It was the OB- X and OB-Xa on that album
Incredible sounds of other times, golden years .. ;-)
Would love to see a video about pushing things to the extreme on cheaper stuff like Yamaha PSS-470 aka Soundblaster keyboard. (And yes I know the 8-bit Guy video)
Man, that vibraphone was INTENSE! 🤩
Check out the Com Truise album “Iteration” (synth wave) It has a ton of the OB-8 on it
Emuator vst or real analog? I've heard some Com Truise songs. It's rare to see synthwave artists use real analog syntheizers, not everyone has the privilege to use one. :(
Magnus Maximus He uses analog synths!
I see you got 2/5 infinity stones already.
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2:24 was fantastic.
Those old analog synths are pure MAGIC!!!!
Superb job! I sold my museum quality OB-8 with MIDI in 1994 for $750. :( Gosh I regret it.
I sold a Juno 106 for 350. I paid it only 250 (Around 1996). Thought I made a great deal. Today however they go over a 1000.
I sold all my studio including all analog (exotics) like 30 years ago. MiniMoogs, Polaris, M12, OB8, P5, PPG, AX60. Never regretted it. It's a myth. We're 2019. No one cares. It's a myth. Blind tests have proven that people can not tell the difference in final music productions. On top, everybody is listening to crappy mp3. Including TH-cam compression...wake up. It's a myth. Sylenth or Electra-X sounds as good and maybe even better, on condition you use high quality DAC's. And I don't mean Motu or RME... One way or the other, nowadays it's cool to have analog synths while musically wise, it's a myth kept alive in special by factories and brands making you believe analog sounds better. Well, for starters, try to describe 'good' sound...can you tell me what standard I should use...??
@@sK3LeTvM1 Bought my first jupiter 8 in 2001 for 1900.00. My first mint juno 60 in 2001 for 150.00. Prophet 5 in 2002 for 800.00. OBXA 1000.00, OB8 700.00.. Juno 106 150.0... Good times... gone forever!
Sold my OB-8 Silk screen with midi for €900, the Jupitwer-8 that I bought for €800 for 1200, Prophet 5 Rev for 300-400. I also had two Juno 106, a MS-20 that I got for €90, a mini-moog serial 11167. All in the 90s. Still have the Oberheim M6R though that I got for 300.
@@sK3LeTvM1 I agree. But I would play around more with physical knobs any day than I would the digital counterparts. But sounds I agree no one knows the difference.
I like the sounds at 1:40 onwards. I feel like I've heard those sounds on a song sometime a long time ago, but have no idea on what. In general though, I love the sound of Oberheims. So rich and deep and powerful and electric.
you have a wonderful personality and youre so good at playing!
Yay my suggestion came true!!!! Thank you so much
told ya :)
Love Oberheim sounds.
1:55 is on the money, hairs standing on end.
It's why i want one and i bet Dr Mix really didn't want to stop playing
5:08 it's me play a driving game on the atari ;-)
Thanks for the demo Doc! Last Christmas... haah lovely song! :D
That sound you said was Kool and the Gang is also the Death Star being shut down by Obi Wan.
You could get lost in that thing for days. Probably one of the best vintage poly synths ever made. Tnx for sharing Doc !
Does no harm whatsoever that he’s also a killer player.
I would rather have an OB over a Jupiter 8
nezbit90 both are beutifull but I would take the arp Quadra over both.
What is better: Oberheim, Sequential, or Roland?
I dont own a synth but that's my dream and im learning a lot with your videos. I just love your enthusiasm. I look up to you man 🐈🙌
Dr Mix is the man !!!!
Magnificent! I don't think digital synths can compare to it at all.
Awesome! The sounds are so delightful!
That arpeggios sound like OUTRUN💜
Magical Sound Shower🏝🚘🏝
What a monster, tamed by a master
Good range, popular references to techno and industrial as well:)
To spend a day in Doctor Mix's studio would be amazing 😍
Cant wait to get my OB-6 !
You’re having a lot of fun there, it’s infectious, thnx!
5:18... thought you were going to break out STYX -- Too Much Time on My Hands
Your comment about new kit triggering creativity is so right. Just bought a MODX 7 based on various reviews on TH-cam (yourself included). What a piece of kit! I'm hooked on it. :-D
love your enthusiasm! Makes learning fun and interesting.
thanks doctor mix for daily mixing tips,i improved a lot !!
Great demonstration really knocked this one out of the park can’t wait till Behringer puts the clone out of the XA. I wonder if I’ll feel like I’m three years old all over again listening to jump.
That synth is huge.
wtf??? Summer Madness was recorded nearly 10 years before the OB-8 came out (on an ARP 2600, btw)....
And a melotron
First thing I thought of was the ending of "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats - definitely not "Summer Madness"
I think he's just trying to mimic the sounds.
Beautiful souding synth, but I have to say its so BIG- possibly one of the biggest polysynths bar the Yamaha CS80, which as we all know was a HUGE beautiful MONSTER-SYNTH!
Matrix 12, Elka Synthex, SY99, CS50 - CS80, Arp Quadra, Memorymoog, Prophet T8, Rhodes Chroma, Siel Cruise, are all bigger and/or heavier synths. OB-8 you can easily carry under one arm.
You had TOO MUCH fun doing Last Christmas. :D
9:29 es increible!!
Agreed! Verdad
the best I,ve ever seen and heard
This synth actually made Steve Roach a massive ambient music legend, that he is today.
This is my favorite synth!
Has anyone of you ever played GTA IV? Every time i watch doctor mix, it makes me remember Bernie from GTA IV mixed with "Bruno" played by Sacha Baron Cohen, I don't know why maybe because of the accent.
Fantastic video.
that string pad at 8:32 was so gorgeous man
Man, I'm such a fan of yours. Beside the fact that I love all that vintage gear (my birthyear is 1971, so yeah..) and that you give clear explenations... You're just fun to watch. Somehow you make me smile every time again. Keep up the good job.. I'll be following you!
7:27 a smashyy kick under this arp line and you can start as a DJ on Tomorrowland ;)
Tangerine Dream 1983.
Recalls the great days of The Stranglers and Skin Deep.
At 7:50 it sounded like the game Ninja gaiden on the NES , that keyboard is awesome
02:20 Sounds like peace 🥰😊
Good playing Doctor Mix, i remember this Synth in the 80s seeing it on Top of the Pops late Summer 84 when Blancmange played Abba cover The Day before you came from their Mange Tout album and Stephen Luscombe was dressed in Indian clothes sounded cool and then hearing it as a demo in Electronic soundmaker and computer music in early 1985 on a cassette with the expander. 😁
my ears just came!
Крутой синтезатор, на вас какмвы тестируете и граете можно смотреть бесконечно
Nice demo, thanks !
I need that for my synth funk boogie production
this was so cool!
Classic sounds!!
What could Bach have done with this?
Shoved it up his arse.
@@SPAZZOID100 no, u
Not much. They didn’t have plug sockets or electricity...
Probably would've got arrested by the holy inquisition
Good stuff!
Almost a Jean Michel Jarre vibe from 7:00. Marvellous instrument. Thanks for the demo!
Love it. Massive sounds. It's the low end that's sets these beasts apart. I'm so jealous