http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/10/05/oberheim-ob-x-vs-sonicprojects-op-x-pro/ Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:55 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/10/05/oberheim-ob-x-vs-sonicprojects-op-x-pro/#comment-142579 Gordon Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:13:20 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=17067#comment-142579 A masterful demo! In it's simplicity, one sees exactly what the software does, what the Oberheim can do, what they each sound like and... that's all one needs to know! I think, too, nowadays, one goes for certain classic synthesizers not because they can do everything or lots of wildly different things, but because certain peculiarities combine in a complex way to make a certain 'quality' of sound which - sure - one can tweak all sorts of ways but as variations on a timbral theme rather than in the olden days when synthesizers could 'make any sound imaginable'. A violin makes, erm, one sound. Yeah, right ;) A masterful demo! In it's simplicity, one sees exactly what the software does, what the Oberheim can do, what they each sound like and… that's all one needs to know! I think, too, nowadays, one goes for certain classic synthesizers not because they can do everything or lots of wildly different things, but because certain peculiarities combine in a complex way to make a certain 'quality' of sound which – sure – one can tweak all sorts of ways but as variations on a timbral theme rather than in the olden days when synthesizers could 'make any sound imaginable'. A violin makes, erm, one sound. Yeah, right

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