I bought mine from Chris Hugget in 1986. It was a demo-ex used at the Music Fair at Olympia Exhibition Centre in London. I knocked the price down from £299 to £280. Quite a bargain! When the fair closed, he delievered it to my hotel off Piccadilly Circus in his old Austin 1100. A very humble and nice man!
impOSCar is one of the BEST sounding plugins. I wish someone like GForce would do the syrinx already.. all rare and legendary synths should be made plugins!
One of the best synths made EVER! this is one of the few synths I can open and just play with for hours. I can play with this thing on its own and be completely happy. very few have the same satisfaction.
In my head this synth is forever associated with Ultravox. I had no idea Oscar Peterson had one! I never really knew much about it before, so thanks for the informative video. The dual filter thing was a great innovation. I have a vague memory of playing one of these live once in the 1990s (I think it was a gig where my own synth had broken down and I borrowed the OSCar). What a shame it was just the once...
I love your posts, sir. I never realized that the OSCar had 8 bit digital oscillators - like my Ensoniq Mirage: 8 bit digital oscillators with analog self-oscillating filters. Cool! Re. the styling, I fall firmly into the "LOVE IT!!" camp. Hats off to GForce. You guys are very clearly pursuing a labor of love, to the great benefit of all of us who care about this stuff.
The claim that around 2000 were made is often heard. I've been keeping track of serial numbers I've seen online, and I've never seen one over 900. I think the correct number is that no more than a thousand were made.
I owned one mid 80s. The layout, protective bumpers and rubbery knobs are still out of the box and functionally helpful, and some are inspired by it. I found it sonically unsatisfying after comparing it directly with vintage monos but I can understand the love factoring in the midi and storage
My first analogies here synth, bought in 86..the outward look is very cool, because the rubber knobs and bumpers felt very good and were excellent protections that other designs didn’t have. The sound didn’t wow me though, but someone with good programming skills could both get some good sounds and use it’s more flexible potential.
Dave, could you do a video about the EDP Wasp please? Love those things but not sure I'm going to pay the current going rate unless I come into some easy money
When I was a youngster, I saw Ultravox talking about their Oscar on TV. I was amazed by it! Then - in the 00s I think - I saw that very Oscar on Ebay! It was about £1500 and looked like it had been kicked around outside :( I just couldn't bring myself to bid on the poor thing :(
I got a Novation Peak it's related to the Oscar AND Wasp made by the same guy and uses an FPGA for digital oscillators and real analouge circuits for the filter, like those synths. Thanks for the vid.
I have bought so much synth-plugins, but at the end a stay by my hardware. The imposcar2 is one of the 2 or three plugins that I am still using besides my hardwaIts such a joy playing the oscar that I am often thinking about gettin a special oscar-hardware-controller.
not bad,i picked mine up for 75 in 1991,i'd never sell it,it still the ultimate bass machine.also picked up a crumar spirit for £50 same place-a1 in stockport,reluctant sale last year for 2700 when skint.still not sure i did the right thing there:(
MOOOG? it's pronounced "Mogue". Honestly. Everything else is 100% but....oh...hold on..I just realised I sounded like a twat...post, or not to post? I hope I don't press...
I bought mine from Chris Hugget in 1986. It was a demo-ex used at the Music Fair at Olympia Exhibition Centre in London. I knocked the price down from £299 to £280. Quite a bargain! When the fair closed, he delievered it to my hotel off Piccadilly Circus in his old Austin 1100. A very humble and nice man!
Same engineer of the OSCar helped to make the novation Peak synth.
impOSCar is one of the BEST sounding plugins. I wish someone like GForce would do the syrinx already.. all rare and legendary synths should be made plugins!
One of the best synths made EVER! this is one of the few synths I can open and just play with for hours.
I can play with this thing on its own and be completely happy.
very few have the same satisfaction.
You make the most awesome demo videos ever. Totally awesome narration. Hats off. Still can't get over the 8 Voice video. So much passion.
In my head this synth is forever associated with Ultravox. I had no idea Oscar Peterson had one! I never really knew much about it before, so thanks for the informative video. The dual filter thing was a great innovation. I have a vague memory of playing one of these live once in the 1990s (I think it was a gig where my own synth had broken down and I borrowed the OSCar). What a shame it was just the once...
I love your posts, sir. I never realized that the OSCar had 8 bit digital oscillators - like my Ensoniq Mirage: 8 bit digital oscillators with analog self-oscillating filters. Cool! Re. the styling, I fall firmly into the "LOVE IT!!" camp.
Hats off to GForce. You guys are very clearly pursuing a labor of love, to the great benefit of all of us who care about this stuff.
I had One my Fav Syth at the time, I got it as I loved Ultravox, I remember it sounding better than just Resonance Squeaks like this
Shame on me for not watching this sooner!
AutomaticGainsay I’d felt the same way- get the impOSCar2 and you’ll feel a little better! 😄👍🎶😎
The claim that around 2000 were made is often heard. I've been keeping track of serial numbers I've seen online, and I've never seen one over 900. I think the correct number is that no more than a thousand were made.
Great overview of the a rarity. GForce makes great emulations.
Got one of these in my attic - I’ll get it fixed someday
Quinn Hartmann want to sell it?
one of the few synths to have an LFO with pubes..
I had one of the first OSCars produced - I wish I still had it - I think the serial was 0059
Great Demo... Great synth...She Deserves her own place in the hall of Fame.
+skyprop Bet the Moog Source gave it a run for the money.
Simon Posford of Shpongle/Hallucinogen was also a huge hardware user of this amazing synth
I owned one mid 80s. The layout, protective bumpers and rubbery knobs are still out of the box and functionally helpful, and some are inspired by it. I found it sonically unsatisfying after comparing it directly with vintage monos but I can understand the love factoring in the midi and storage
Gives my little Casio CZ-101 a run for the money!
Fantastic video. Thanx GForce.
This synth is amazing!!
You guys need to do more synth demos like this. I'd love to see one on the CS-80.
+VCO8 Got the voice and timing for it. Should do this for a living, tbh.
My first analogies here synth, bought in 86..the outward look is very cool, because the rubber knobs and bumpers felt very good and were excellent protections that other designs didn’t have. The sound didn’t wow me though, but someone with good programming skills could both get some good sounds and use it’s more flexible potential.
never really had it on the radar, will check it out. Lot's of goodness under the hood none of the others had.
I love this beautiful synth! Was it the OSCAR or the ARP Odyssey that Billy Currie put through a distortion box on "The Man Who Dies Everyday?"
Wow, you took note of the Advanced Sound Generator at the end!
Dave, could you do a video about the EDP Wasp please? Love those things but not sure I'm going to pay the current going rate unless I come into some easy money
When I was a youngster, I saw Ultravox talking about their Oscar on TV. I was amazed by it! Then - in the 00s I think - I saw that very Oscar on Ebay! It was about £1500 and looked like it had been kicked around outside :( I just couldn't bring myself to bid on the poor thing :(
Wow this sounds like my Ad-vantage 03M that's crazy !!!!
I got a Novation Peak it's related to the Oscar AND Wasp made by the same guy and uses an FPGA for digital oscillators and real analouge circuits for the filter, like those synths. Thanks for the vid.
Voiceover, Were you the guy that did Vangelis' Albedo 0.39 voiceover on that track ! Ha !
Amazing video, it's why I bought the virtual emulation, imposcar 2
Looks awesome.
I have bought so much synth-plugins, but at the end a stay by my hardware. The imposcar2 is one of the 2 or three plugins that I am still using besides my hardwaIts such a joy playing the oscar that I am often thinking about gettin a special oscar-hardware-controller.
In 2002 I bought a mint condition Oscar in a Cash Converters store for £250. Bargain of the century.
not bad,i picked mine up for 75 in 1991,i'd never sell it,it still the ultimate bass machine.also picked up a crumar spirit for £50 same place-a1 in stockport,reluctant sale last year for 2700 when skint.still not sure i did the right thing there:(
Great synth - you did it credit.
I got an OSCar in 1996 for 550£ and sold it in 1998. Biggest mistake of my life.
i love this channel!!
Wonderful vid.
I can hear the OSCar ground hum kick in @1.14 :)
You can smell the late 1970s
It almost sounds like a Mega Drive in places.
Sneaker Pimps too!
You should make this with a slave mode so you get SEM like performance features but I guess creating another instance is the same.
Also used by Dead Or Alive and Bronski Beat iirc...
1:26 .. I was waiting for an example of the "famous billy currie overdriven arp lead sound" :(
thats 10 now
sneaker pimps also used one
I'm here from Snowcone by deadmau5..
i need it but in RE for using it in Reason ^^
I agree....GREAT sound, But It's Styling...........
Never liked it
Preferred the SCI Pro One
1:14
;-)
MOOOG? it's pronounced "Mogue". Honestly. Everything else is 100% but....oh...hold on..I just realised I sounded like a twat...post, or not to post? I hope I don't press...
Jesus fucking Christ 🤗
Although a lovely peace of instrument, it's ugly, brown, difficult to use and otherwise British. No wonder that it didn't sell well.