Tom Oberheim on The DMX, Polyphonic synthesis, and the Oberheim sound | Red Bull Music Academy
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From the late 1960s to the present day, Tom Oberheim has shaped the development of modern musicianship in a way that very few others manage to, building legendary devices that have been used by everyone from the Pat Metheny Group to Underground Resistance.
In his 2008 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Oberheim talked about the era of the great analog synth builders, sonic textures and his personal philosophy of the creative process.
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In fact, for a time in the 1980s it seemed just about impossible to score a hit without an Oberheim DMX or OB-Xa - just ask Run DMC and Van Halen. What’s more, Oberheim has lost none of the enthusiasm that led him to the industry in the first place.
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27:24 - Maestro Ring Modulator
41:00 - Phase Shifter
1:01:50 - The Oberheim sound
1:03:50 - Bob Moog
1:13:41 - Polyphonic synthesis
1:38:38 - The DMX
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Most of us don't even know how lucky we are right now for a variety of reasons. Tom, Thanks for taking the time out to share your truth and artistry.
My dream in life has always been to meet Mr. Oberheim and just shake his hand and say thank you.
I saw him once at Tokyo NAAM
@@supadupahilton6848 did you shake his hand and say thank you
His voice sounds like his instruments!
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You have some great guests on these videos, but this host? Can you please retrain him, or something please.
Nobody can understand where he's trying to come from, he just interrupts the whole story telling process.
Huge respect for Tom O!
18:57 It surprises me to hear somebody connecting the military industrial complex to music, but ... they've got interesting parallels. I wrote a lot of C++ for an avionics contractor. I used JUCE to write databus tests suites before JUCE became the standard way to make VSTs. If you looked at all the developers writing C++, most of them are probably either working on military hardware, or they're working on VSTs, or they're doing OS-level maintenance type stuff.
There's not many things that really need the kind of performance where you're writing multithreaded C++. Even if you're doing high-speed networking stuff, you're going to be using standard libraries unless you're doing R&D type work. But when you're working on military stuff you're often doing very niche high-speed signal processing. That's why military hardware and high-end synthesizers both use FPGAs. You're doing low-level stuff, and it's not stuff that you can do in the average off-the-shelf SOC. And developing on FPGAs is very interesting/different. In a lot of situations you're using a Spartan FPGA with on-board PowerPC cores, so you're working on multi-core hardware where the cores don't even have the same word length or endian-ness.
Missile guidance uses FPGAs. Avionics databus controllers use FPGAs. When Dave Rossum wanted to make a cheaper single-chip Emulator III he used an FPGA, and that's what every Proteus/Orbit/etc. is running on. High-end Waldorfs use FPGAs, and I would expect that's what's in the 3rd Wave and/or Virus. But there are other niches of low-volume high-budget signal processing. I assume hospital equipment like MRI machines uses FPGAs, and robotics, satellites, and aircraft in general. Expensive embedded systems.
Another parallel is that working with MIDI is very similar to working with MIL-STD-1553/1773.
I love the random questions this guy is asking! He asked him about trains! And Tom is such a nerd he gives a million details then leaves out the obvious ones. Doesn't even bother to mention the cool places he worked. 😂
Hell yes cool fkn guy. Great equipment
Oberheim Eight voice played live by Akiko Yano. That's the high point. Zawinul didn't seem to touch his Oberheim Four Voice, he was more focused on his two ARP 2600's. Still, great instruments. I don't really like Moog or Sequential products. On the other hand, I love ARP, E-mu Systems, and Oberheim.
How not to conduct an interview....
currently saving for an Oberheim it will be my first hardware poly synth. if you see this comment, patch sites, tips, anything useful would be appreciated.
Which synth? I just bought an OB6. Should be in tomorrow!
@@eladreltuc mine in 5 days ;)
Pure Genius!
interesting topics
Sad story about the bankrupt end and selling name to Gibson . A dealer told me years ago that 2 th Oberheim brand the Sakata ( Matrix 6 )quality and painting probs where also a big start for second the throubles . I owned a Marion msr2 , 3 x Matrix 6 , ObMx ( Buchla , Gibson ) Ob12 ( Gibson , Viscount) Oberheim Dx , Xpander .And i hope Tom Oberheim create again a new synth once .
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Inspirational
The dude needs to be wearing a cape.
Tom's stories are great, but can barely hear the interviewer at full volume.
amazing guy, shame about the interviewer who often seems to look bored and distracted by his cue screen/sheet, especially when Tom explains clearly what a ring Modulator was, the guy says 'cmmm Im pretty sure we all got that'.... It just sounded condescending to Tom. surely for such a legends you would memorize 10-20 questions. I don't imagine the guy knew who Tom was before he was given the script - well done Tom for getting through it - especially with people in the crowd 'sleeping!!'.."
red bull seems to favor him for some reason, like he interviews most of the pioneering synth designers and its downright some of the most awkward interviews filmed. for example, he interviewed peter zinovieff from ems and dr. zinovieff is clearly annoyed, avoiding eye contact, making small quips, its half heartbreaking and hilarious.
The questions sucked. Act as if you are talking to him alone. Don't ask anyone else's questions. Others are uninformed and wrapped up in mythology. You have a simple man in front of you not a god. The interview was not orderly, was anachronistic. Non practical. Questions were just "out there" and Oberheim didn't even know what to do with it.
1:00:25 i'm amazed : such a question is completely "out of tune" when talking to Tom Oberheim ?
"what is a filter ? how does it work on a sinewave sound ? "
(i love the "sinewave is not a good example" by Tom 😂 & his eyebrows just after !! 🤨)
1:51:35 😱😱😱😱😱
Why are they dressed the same?
lol
Great minds think alike.
OBX-a
@@antonisatwork Oberheim obviously loves those lines, even on clothes :-D
Mr Oberheim would never wear such ugly footwear.
Just about ANYBODY ELSE would have been a better interviewer than this guy... He asks vague, obtuse questions (which felt like he was making up on the spot), and then gets visibly annoyed when he doesn't get the answers he wants. He tells Tom to dumb it down, and then gets impatient and snappy when he over-simplifies. Tom must have been asking himself: "What the hell does this guy want from me??" Tom Oberheim is not a public figure, accustomed to speaking in front of an audience. Just let him tell his stories if you all you have are indecipherable hipster questions to ask!
Possibly the worst interviewer ever... Tom: let's hear the filter... Interviewer guy: pull up a sign wave!
Tom Talking East Coast/West Coast and host dude brings up a Hip hop rivalry?!?
1:12:45 Many attendees are asleep.... Sad AF. Red Bull has no business doing this.
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awesome guy but how could he throw his own product in the trash??? after all he talked about ...