From orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!blkcat!Uucp Fri Jan 24 17:21:31 PST 1992 Article: 28453 of rec.music.synth From: Constantine.Peters@f440.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Constantine Peters) Path: orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!blkcat!Uucp Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: NAMM: 2 of 5 Message-ID: <696243925.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Date: 24 Jan 92 01:11:16 EST This Information Courtesy of Mike Rivers' WMUG BBS - 703 532 7860 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thougtprocessors, the folks that make The Note Processor scoring program, have released ShowTune, a MIDI file printing program. It's the perfect answer for people who don't need a score publishing package, but just want to print lead sheets or arrangements for the band. It's quite flexible in how it lays out the page and quantizes tracks, but you can set up defaults so you don't have to fiddle with it every time you use it. Musical characters and text can be inserted anywhere on the page, and print quality is excellent, even on a 9 pin dot matrix printer. There's good printer support for 9/24 pin dot matrix, inkjet, and laser printers. It's only $79, and comes with a card good for $79 credit towards Note Processor when you need it. For the IBM, Windows not required. Works with color or Hercules graphics. Passport introduced MusicTime, sort of an "Encore Lite", for Windows (now) and Mac (in March). It's a sequencer which records from MIDI, or notes can be entered from the computer keyboard or mouse. Note entry is displayed in musical notation, up to 6 staves. Editing is with standard GUI techniques of cut/copy/paste, and click'n'drag. The IBM version is compatible with the Multimedia PC spec which means it works with sound cards and General MIDI setups. $279. Interval Music Systems (the InVision folks) have some new tools for Akai samplers and the Mac. S:Edit is a front panel emulator and editor for the S-1000/1100, and S:Base is a data base for S-900/950/1000/1100 samples. If you leave your S-1100 on all the time like a guy at the Nashvill Network that I know does, and your front panel LCD backlight burns out after a couple of months, that editor could be the answer. Also new is the first Kurzweil K2000 support product I've run into, the D2000 Diskmaker. It allows you to transfer samples from K250 disks, Sample Cell (including CD ROM disks) and Soundesigner files to a disk readable by the K2000. Noisemakers, Round 2 - Oberheim/Gibson Labs demonstrated a hand wired prototype of the long rumored Oberheim OB-Mx analog synth. Lots of knobs (not even sliders, REAL KNOBS!), and all discrete components in the analog paths (no IC's). Of course it's MIDI controllable and settings can be stored as patches. It contains two filter chains, one being the original Minimoog and the other an Oberheim Synth Expander Module (SEM). Audio inputs are provided so that an outboard sound can be used as one of the four sound sources that make up a voice. They're still developing it so it was just sort of there to see what people did with it. When the Gibson folks heard something that sounded interesting, they saved it. Developers right there at NAMM! I'm not a good judge of synth sounds, but the folks in the demo room with me said it sounded "real fat". I only heard funky synth bass sounds, and I'd heard enough loud, slaphappy bass players on the show floor that I'd lost all my good taste and critical ears. It's supposed to be shipping in April in the $1500-$3000 price range depending on how it's stuffed. * Origin: ENIAC 109/440 * 301/460-4038 - read MATT.10:22 (1:109/440.0) From noiro.oac.uci.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pitt.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!minerva!metlay Fri Apr 17 14:22:16 PDT 1992 Article: 33039 of rec.music.synth Path: noiro.oac.uci.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pitt.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!minerva!metlay From: metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Minimoog: No PWM??? Summary: OBMX filters ARE MiniMoog filters Message-ID: <205025@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 16 Apr 92 22:20:21 GMT References: <9204101830.AA17929@cafws1.eng.uci.edu> <1992Apr15.171352.8604@intacc.uucp> Sender: news@unix.cis.pitt.edu Organization: Atomic City Lines: 17 In article <1992Apr15.171352.8604@intacc.uucp> zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) writes: >Oberheim's new OB-MG professes to have SEM filters ANDMoog filters. >It doesn't say Mini-Moog filters thoug Yes, it DOES. There wouldn't be any point in getting analog junkies to cough up the incredible amount of money an OBMX will cost, otherwise. So the gang at Oberheim bent over backwards to EXACTLY reproduce the ladder filters in the MiniMoog, even to the placement of components. The unit is going to cost something like $2000 for a two-voice model; exorbitant until you price a MIDIMini. -- metlay | @minerva. | G*R*A*S*P*! phyast. | pitt.edu | From noiro.acs.uci.edu!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!news.byu.edu!eff!widener!dsinc!pitt.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu Mon Jun 15 10:54:45 PDT 1992 Article: 35801 of rec.music.synth Path: noiro.acs.uci.edu!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!news.byu.edu!eff!widener!dsinc!pitt.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu From: metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Oberheim Matters Summary: service troubles and the OBMX Message-ID: <207544@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 12 Jun 92 16:40:35 GMT Sender: news@unix.cis.pitt.edu Organization: Atomic City Lines: 57 I just got off the phone with Richard Bugg, one of the two and a half people still working for Oberheim. Several matters of interest to the Net: 1. Please contact me if you were at all involved in the recent thread about Oberheim service, the one set off by Patrick Robinson's post about the rumor that Tom Dunn was leaving Oberheim (which has been verified, by the way). If anyone can send me date-stamped articles from that thread (mine have expired already), please do so. I am trying to figure out precisely what led to this, but someone called the home office of Gibson in Nahsville claiming that they read on the Net that Tom Dunn was absconding with somebody's Xpander that he had taken in for repair. If there IS someone out there who sent a synth to Oberheim and never got it back, OR who posted about a repair that took a long time to settle, please write me at once! Tom could be in a lot of trouble, and I have been asked to try to clear up this matter-- to learn if a synth HAS vanished, or to quote the posts that resulted in the phone call. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks. 2. The OBMX is still chugging along toward actual release; they have scheduled time for a production run, and are now finalizing things like the front panel silk screening style (Richard says that everyone loves the black on white style except old Xpander users like me) and the manual (which Richard is writing). Their big argument with Gibson right now is over the length of the beta test period; the home office is trying to limit the beta test and rush the unit out, and the Oberheim people are refusing to allow that, insisting that a synthesizer requires a bit more beta testing than a new guitar. (Before anyone asks, they are NOT looking for beta testers.) Richard says the OBMX sounds "incredible," and is looking forward to seeing people's reactions when it hits the market (later this summer?). 3. Oberheim has had two major management shakeups within Gibson in the past year, resulting in the delays and so forth. They're hoping that things are settling down, but one more major player has yet to be heard from: Tom Oberheim, who has apparently won a lawsuit to get control of his name back. There are no new products in the works other than the OBMX, and things like in-house repairs are very iffy for the time being; Obie owners would be better off finding third-party people who are good with Obie gear (my faves are dBm Electronics in New York City, but there are others). Richard sounded hopeful about finally getting all of the bullshit behind him, and getting down to building killer gear again. We'll just have to wait and see what ends up happening.... Thanks for your time, and if you were at all involved in any thread concerning Oberheim service recently, PLEASE contact me. ESPECIALLY if you were the guy who called Gibson and accused Tom of stealing a synthesizer.... -- metlay | "The net has been less than worthless as a source of ideas or @minerva. | people to collaborate with on innovative ideas." --J. Bowery phyast. | pitt.edu | "Huh? Are we an anomaly? OK, yeah, we are." --E. Hallgrimsson From seh003@acad.drake.edu Mon Nov 15 22:14:53 PST 1993 Article: 13714 of rec.music.makers.synth Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth Path: news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!seh003 From: seh003@acad.drake.edu (Stephen E. Hale) Subject: Re: What's an OberMoog?? Message-ID: <1993Nov11.160517.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 36 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA References: <9311110632.AA13262@cafws2.eng.uci.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 22:05:17 GMT In article <9311110632.AA13262@cafws2.eng.uci.edu>, dan@cafws2.eng.UCI.EDU (Dan Harkless) writes: > Jim, I think your salesman is probably clueless. First of all, that > synth has been known about for a _long_ time. It's hardly a secret. The > "OberMoog" appellation was dropped long ago. The final name was the "OB-MX". > It was indeed to be a very cool synth, and yes, expandable, but it seems to > have vanished. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | Dan Harkless | "The sore in my soul | > | dan@cafws1.eng.uci.edu | The mark in my heart -> Front 242, | > | dharkles@bonnie.ics.uci.edu | Her acid reign..." Tragedy >For You< | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since there seems to be interest, here's the blurb from Manny's Mailbox Music catalog... Oberheim OB-Mx (Obermoog) The new OB-Mx synthesizer is the dream machine of analog synthesizers. Its audio path is entirely analog, giving it that distinct "fat" analog sound that so many of today's digital synthesizers are trying to emulate. Furthermore, the OB-Mx features a "hands-on" user interface, making it easy for even beginners to prgram their own unique sounds. Some of its features include up to 12 stereo polyphonic voice, 2 oscillators per voice, stereo mix output and an LCD display for easier editing. 2 voices, 26 lbs ... $1599 6 voices, 26 lbs ... $2599 12 voices, 26 lbs ... $5499 Note that the prices listed are Manny's discounted prices, not list. -- Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ... Beware, my friends, as you pass by + Stephen E. Hale + as you are now so once was I + SEH003@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU + as I am now so you will be +++++++++++++++++++++++++ prepare, my friends, to follow me ...