....and adding to my opinion, Marius, I immediately subscribed to both your TH-cam and Spotify channels. Your music sounds very inspiring for my own ambient and prog related compositions.
Just stumbled upon your TH-cam channel and happy to see it and you with the Oberheim. Enjoy the work I have seen you do with the Miller Session Band. I am a home musician and enjoy the GE Software Obies with my StudioLogic MIDI controller. Looking forward to future posts on your channel.
Vielen Dank für das inspirierende Video! Der Oberheim Eight Voice ist ein großartiges Instrument. 🎹🤩🎶Ich freue mich auf Dein neues Album (grad bestellt).
Beautiful stuff Marius. I remember Chick Corea having that Oberheim in a magazine article back in 1978. Back in the day I used to see Oberheim 4/8 voices mentioned on records but they rarely sounded like this. Maybe Joe Z on Heavy Weather was one of the earliest innovators using it mainly as a orchestral lines a'la "chord on a key" for shifts on Teen Town. I think back then people were just exploring and learning how to use these things and that the sonic landscape wasn't known. Wasn't until the Prophet 5 that perhaps polyphonic patch design reached some level of maturity. Now we can look back with 40-50 years worth of experience and see what really worked! Btw Rainer Bruninghaus used the 4 voice on his 1980 ECM album Freigeweht to wonderful effect...
The beauty of the sound was worth every single minute of tuning. In general, you only really appreciate the value of some historical tracks once you have gone through this process several times. Great video.
Habe vor langer Zeit mal Wolfgang Dauner mit dem 8-Voice erlebt. Der war nicht nur ein großartiger Pianist, sondern konnte auch mit dem Synth wirklich gut umgehen - durchaus auf Zawinul-Niveau. Obwohl eigentlich ein Hardware-Fan, habe ich auch den OB-E. Das ist einer der wenigen Fälle, wo ein VST-Synth wirklich Sinn macht. Man muss eben *nicht* alle SEMs einzeln beackern! Und er klingt auch saugut, wenn man nicht - wie GForce - alles mit Delay und Reverb zuschüttet.
I didn't realize that Chick Corea ever played an Oberheim, never mind an Eight Voice one. I guess I am most familiar with Chick Corea playing the KX88 and KX5 remote keyboards through the TX816 modules, alongside the Rhodes Mark V. I remember Chick Corea also had a Synclavier. Anyway, to me, personally, the main Oberheim Eight Voice player is Akiko Yano performing with YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra). She also played the most amazing comping chord styles on the Prophet-5. I think all around 1979-1980. The Japanese love their YMO, and for a very good reason.
Thank you for sharing this and it’s so cool to see how much fun you are having. I have the SEM Pro (actually 8 of them so I can build my own EVS with the modern MIDI friendliness of the SEM Pro), TVS-Pro and FVS and they are all magic to me. Just gorgeous sound. I’m hunting for an EVS, as it is my holy grail synth. So excellent that you were able to play one. Thanks again!
I recognise that place. :) Really ace to hear you behind the wonderful Eight Voice playing your fantastic music. Looking forward to your EP with this beauty!
I've recently seen you doing great stuff on that colourful keyboard in the background! 🙂 I shyly said EP to the camera, not yet knowing how my ambitious plans to record two complete albums in effectively four days would turn out, but I think with 7 tracks and 38 minutes, we could call it an actual album after all. ;-)
Dear Marius. I'm glad you could go to UK for this; Dave Spiers has his flair about artists, with no surprise he opens you the door. I discover you thanks to Carolina Kate Bush cover.. Also, the big performances on your channel, I listen to them usually for Christmas, I hope this is enough for you to know what I think about your Art. From Normandie, France, from a Sonicstaters..
Awesome stuff. Signed up for the KLANG | Oberheim Eight Voice release trip. I hope you release this album on Bandcamp as well as your previous (Weltmaschine).
Thank you and congratulations! Spoiler: You will actually get a free hi-res download inside the trip! Nonetheless, I'll release it on Bandcamp as well.
@@mariusleicht Yes, I know that from Weltmaschine.I got all those wav's from that 'trip' on my harddrive. But you're too good as a musician, to not to pay for the content. 😉
Indeed a very nice hardware "substitute" (4-voice-in-a-box) is the DSI Tetra with 4 independent voices and outputs (or internal pan routing via stereo outs) in combo mode. You can have round robin with four independent sounds or stacked for those vintage type leads (different sounds and intervals). If you need a hands on programmer - there is the mopho keyboard with identical voice architecture..
I felt the same with the PolyEvolver... 4 independent voices in a box... kinda cold compared to the older synths (you had to employ all kinds of subtle modulation tricks even to make it sound as warm as a JX10 for instance) but still icy beautiful... loved it..
I do not see the problem in tuning a synth. It adds to a creative process and being a guitar player with interest to give my acoustic and electric guitars that extra bit with electronic music, I see it in the same vein of learning to play the guitar or other instruments that take some time. Ok, if I want to be completely fair, I am also attracted to this sound since 70's synth artists and albums are more favorite to me than the 1980's generation after it: they were the pioneers of this kind of music and the music still sounds they had to prove their own worth by trying to discover and push back musical boundaries. And furthernore, the overall sound of these analog synths still sound warmer to my ears than the, in my opinion, blocky and nintendo sounding '80's synths.I may of course be prejudiced and you may beg to differ, but, my opinion remains.
I dont think its the greatest synth of all time , I mean , are you supposed to tune that thing up by using one SEM after another ? I had a single SEM a while ago and i was not impressed at all , i sold it and the guy who bought it said he was going to make a 8 sem version like you have in this video - it seems too much work to make a sound
Yep, a lot of work - but I‘m not sure if you are aware of its uniqueness. You can assign a totally different sound to each single voice! While this doesn‘t seem to make sense in most cases, it is very rewarding to alternate the voices for a very vivid sound: SEMs 1, 3, 5, 7 with one sound, 2, 4, 6, 8 with another wave form or filter setting. Which other poly synth can do that???
@@RayyMusik oh i dont know , it sounds very time consuming !!! on the recent ob vst thingy you can just twidle one panel and all the others fall in line to make an intune sound - imagine trying to make a sound and trying to figure out why its wobbly and you have to find one osc which has been knocked a little to the side - imagine touring with that thing - i wonder if they did that back in the 70s - hard. to set up on stage
@@justinb9387 Admittedly VST has an edge at this point. I also use the OB-E. But I saw and heard the Oberheim 8V on a club stage! It was in the late 70s with German jazz pianist Wolfgang Dauner. I sat just 4 meters away and admired his virtuosity in musical as well as in technical respect. He was a true master in synth programming, there wasn‘t any problem, it just sounded gorgeous.
I totally agree, the four octave keyboard is cruel. Fantastic synth that inspired me to buy the Oberheim Xpander in the 80's, and just got a Behringer UB-Xa a few weeks ago.
@@murraybartley4467 - I got the gforce ob-e - but to be honest it sounds like a vst through and through - people rave about it but it totally sounds like a vst. Its pleasant though. Is the Behringer any good ? I have not been following it , its deff a lot cheaper than the re issue of the obx... oberheim xpander - ive watched the videos - sounds nice - but you would need a science degree to program it
I wished cor a 12 min video you would just shut up and play this thing. We can read ourselves everything about it, ok. Why you tubers always feel the need to talk endless like it were something you can't learn from every article or forum.
not to be mean. but you have the opportunity to make a video with such a rare instrument and you are talking so much things we can read everywhere. it isn't necessary. If you play the thing for an hour with no talking and cool patches it would have been so nice.
Great video! This, as well as the Yamaha CS-80, is my absolute dreamsynth. But it must be a pain in the *** to program and tune it.
As always Marius, you amazed me and inspire me. You are a healer.
Thank you for those kind words, Joe!
....and adding to my opinion, Marius, I immediately subscribed to both your TH-cam and Spotify channels. Your music sounds very inspiring for my own ambient and prog related compositions.
Just stumbled upon your TH-cam channel and happy to see it and you with the Oberheim. Enjoy the work I have seen you do with the Miller Session Band.
I am a home musician and enjoy the GE Software Obies with my StudioLogic MIDI controller. Looking forward to future posts on your channel.
Vielen Dank für das inspirierende Video! Der Oberheim Eight Voice ist ein großartiges Instrument. 🎹🤩🎶Ich freue mich auf Dein neues Album (grad bestellt).
Beautiful stuff Marius.
I remember Chick Corea having that Oberheim in a magazine article back in 1978. Back in the day I used to see Oberheim 4/8 voices mentioned on records but they rarely sounded like this. Maybe Joe Z on Heavy Weather was one of the earliest innovators using it mainly as a orchestral lines a'la "chord on a key" for shifts on Teen Town. I think back then people were just exploring and learning how to use these things and that the sonic landscape wasn't known. Wasn't until the Prophet 5 that perhaps polyphonic patch design reached some level of maturity. Now we can look back with 40-50 years worth of experience and see what really worked!
Btw Rainer Bruninghaus used the 4 voice on his 1980 ECM album Freigeweht to wonderful effect...
The beauty of the sound was worth every single minute of tuning. In general, you only really appreciate the value of some historical tracks once you have gone through this process several times. Great video.
Beyond awesome!!! The best sounding synth ever made!
Such a wonderful presentation of a gem of an instrument.
Thank you very much!
Das Album war gerade in der Post. Großartig!!!!!! Dankeschön!!!
Klingt hervorragend! 👍✨Danke, daß Du das außergewöhnliche Teil vorgestellt hast.
Beautiful! Hope to check out that EP!
Such an inspiration! Dream come true for you and for us
Excellent! Really looking forward to hearing your music!
album sounds great!
Habe vor langer Zeit mal Wolfgang Dauner mit dem 8-Voice erlebt. Der war nicht nur ein großartiger Pianist, sondern konnte auch mit dem Synth wirklich gut umgehen - durchaus auf Zawinul-Niveau.
Obwohl eigentlich ein Hardware-Fan, habe ich auch den OB-E. Das ist einer der wenigen Fälle, wo ein VST-Synth wirklich Sinn macht. Man muss eben *nicht* alle SEMs einzeln beackern! Und er klingt auch saugut, wenn man nicht - wie GForce - alles mit Delay und Reverb zuschüttet.
I didn't realize that Chick Corea ever played an Oberheim, never mind an Eight Voice one. I guess I am most familiar with Chick Corea playing the KX88 and KX5 remote keyboards through the TX816 modules, alongside the Rhodes Mark V. I remember Chick Corea also had a Synclavier. Anyway, to me, personally, the main Oberheim Eight Voice player is Akiko Yano performing with YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra). She also played the most amazing comping chord styles on the Prophet-5. I think all around 1979-1980. The Japanese love their YMO, and for a very good reason.
Very impressive ! Thanks Marius for sharing !
Thank you for sharing this and it’s so cool to see how much fun you are having. I have the SEM Pro (actually 8 of them so I can build my own EVS with the modern MIDI friendliness of the SEM Pro), TVS-Pro and FVS and they are all magic to me. Just gorgeous sound. I’m hunting for an EVS, as it is my holy grail synth. So excellent that you were able to play one. Thanks again!
I recognise that place. :)
Really ace to hear you behind the wonderful Eight Voice playing your fantastic music. Looking forward to your EP with this beauty!
I've recently seen you doing great stuff on that colourful keyboard in the background! 🙂
I shyly said EP to the camera, not yet knowing how my ambitious plans to record two complete albums in effectively four days would turn out, but I think with 7 tracks and 38 minutes, we could call it an actual album after all. ;-)
@@mariusleichtExcellent. Looking forward to the recordings.
Sounds amazing. Love it.
Dear Marius. I'm glad you could go to UK for this; Dave Spiers has his flair about artists, with no surprise he opens you the door. I discover you thanks to Carolina Kate Bush cover..
Also, the big performances on your channel, I listen to them usually for Christmas, I hope this is enough for you to know what I think about your Art.
From Normandie, France, from a Sonicstaters..
2:26 this is re-issue of SEM from 2010.
Awesome post. I would be overwhelmed in that room, it's almost too good to be true.
Was für ein herrlicher Anblick.
Awesome stuff. Signed up for the KLANG | Oberheim Eight Voice release trip.
I hope you release this album on Bandcamp as well as your previous (Weltmaschine).
Thank you and congratulations! Spoiler: You will actually get a free hi-res download inside the trip!
Nonetheless, I'll release it on Bandcamp as well.
@@mariusleicht Yes, I know that from Weltmaschine.I got all those wav's from that 'trip' on my harddrive.
But you're too good as a musician, to not to pay for the content. 😉
sounds amazing
amazing sound 🎹
I have a handful of very nice synthesizers and admittedly, none of them can quite do what the Oberheim Eight Voice can.
Indeed a very nice hardware "substitute" (4-voice-in-a-box) is the DSI Tetra with 4 independent voices and outputs (or internal pan routing via stereo outs) in combo mode. You can have round robin with four independent sounds or stacked for those vintage type leads (different sounds and intervals). If you need a hands on programmer - there is the mopho keyboard with identical voice architecture..
I felt the same with the PolyEvolver... 4 independent voices in a box... kinda cold compared to the older synths (you had to employ all kinds of subtle modulation tricks even to make it sound as warm as a JX10 for instance) but still icy beautiful... loved it..
Now you have the Analogue Solutions Maximus
Amazing truly amazing.
Thank you! Stay tuned for the actual album! 🙂
I was the proud owner of an Oberheim 8 voice, wish I had kept it. I replaced it with a OB-8 and then an OBxa.
I do not see the problem in tuning a synth. It adds to a creative process and being a guitar player with interest to give my acoustic and electric guitars that extra bit with electronic music, I see it in the same vein of learning to play the guitar or other instruments that take some time. Ok, if I want to be completely fair, I am also attracted to this sound since 70's synth artists and albums are more favorite to me than the 1980's generation after it: they were the pioneers of this kind of music and the music still sounds they had to prove their own worth by trying to discover and push back musical boundaries. And furthernore, the overall sound of these analog synths still sound warmer to my ears than the, in my opinion, blocky and nintendo sounding '80's synths.I may of course be prejudiced and you may beg to differ, but, my opinion remains.
Skullet brothers for life
need to put some gibson robot tuners on this synth :P
A true MoNsTeR
Sounds great, du Frechdachs
it needs a copy and paste function.
I use GForce plugins. All good.
Yes, these folks are amazing and they create amazing plugins. I've seen firsthand with how much love and care they are created.
They’re a great company. They have excellent customer service and their software is superb.
Yes, It is.
Cool
Is this different from obx8
A gentle giant, this synth.. not my cup of tea, because my allegiance is with digital, but awe-inspiring nonetheless..
I hear the sounds of Radiohead tracks of Kid A and Amnesiac. Cool.
I dont think its the greatest synth of all time , I mean , are you supposed to tune that thing up by using one SEM after another ? I had a single SEM a while ago and i was not impressed at all , i sold it and the guy who bought it said he was going to make a 8 sem version like you have in this video - it seems too much work to make a sound
Yep, a lot of work - but I‘m not sure if you are aware of its uniqueness. You can assign a totally different sound to each single voice! While this doesn‘t seem to make sense in most cases, it is very rewarding to alternate the voices for a very vivid sound: SEMs 1, 3, 5, 7 with one sound, 2, 4, 6, 8 with another wave form or filter setting. Which other poly synth can do that???
@@RayyMusik oh i dont know , it sounds very time consuming !!! on the recent ob vst thingy you can just twidle one panel and all the others fall in line to make an intune sound - imagine trying to make a sound and trying to figure out why its wobbly and you have to find one osc which has been knocked a little to the side - imagine touring with that thing - i wonder if they did that back in the 70s - hard. to set up on stage
@@justinb9387 Admittedly VST has an edge at this point. I also use the OB-E. But I saw and heard the Oberheim 8V on a club stage! It was in the late 70s with German jazz pianist Wolfgang Dauner. I sat just 4 meters away and admired his virtuosity in musical as well as in technical respect. He was a true master in synth programming, there wasn‘t any problem, it just sounded gorgeous.
I totally agree, the four octave keyboard is cruel.
Fantastic synth that inspired me to buy the Oberheim Xpander in the 80's, and just got a Behringer UB-Xa a few weeks ago.
@@murraybartley4467 - I got the gforce ob-e - but to be honest it sounds like a vst through and through - people rave about it but it totally sounds like a vst. Its pleasant though. Is the Behringer any good ? I have not been following it , its deff a lot cheaper than the re issue of the obx... oberheim xpander - ive watched the videos - sounds nice - but you would need a science degree to program it
Truly beautiful, but I prefer my Moog One 😁
I wished cor a 12 min video you would just shut up and play this thing.
We can read ourselves everything about it, ok.
Why you tubers always feel the need to talk endless like it were something you can't learn from every article or forum.
not to be mean. but you have the opportunity to make a video with such a rare instrument and you are talking so much things we can read everywhere. it isn't necessary. If you play the thing for an hour with no talking and cool patches it would have been so nice.