[sdiy] Tom Oberheim

Graham Atkins gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Sep 11 17:06:02 CEST 2010


On 11 Sep 2010, at 15:49, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> I hadn't realised, but Tom Oberheim is making hardware again,  
> starting with the SEM. Maybe everyone else knew already, in which  
> case sorry for being late to the party. He has a (brief) webpage up  
> about it here:
>
> http://www.tomoberheim.com
>
> There seems to be a trend developing of "analog era" designers going  
> back to building hardware synths. It's got to be a good thing. I'm  
> very pleased to see so much activity in the field, and I hope some  
> really good instruments come from it. Tom O is going to have to move  
> away from the SEM though (what's he going to do? build another four- 
> voice?) and aim at the later (programmable, polyphonic) Oberheim  
> stuff if he really wants to make a mark.

I think it was about a year ago that this was mentioned in some of the  
magazines. Notice there are different version options as well.

Graham





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