{"id":151001,"date":"2025-11-05T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=151001"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:23:28","slug":"oberheim-ob-1-retro-synth-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/11\/05\/oberheim-ob-1-retro-synth-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Oberheim OB-1 Retro Synth Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sublime Oberheim OB-1\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SvUKCSyN_rM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his latest video, synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AlexBallMusic\">Alex Ball<\/a> offers a retro synth review of the rare <strong>Oberheim OB-1<\/strong> synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p>Originally introduced in 1977, the Oberheim OB-1 built on the design of the classic SEM, but is also considered to be the first programmable synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s pretty limited by modern standards, it still sounds fantastic, and Ball demonstrates in his video. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Topics covered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">0:00 Intro Jam<br \/>\n1:26 The OB-1<br \/>\n1:54 Brief History<br \/>\n3:07 A justifiable rant<br \/>\n4:36 SEM vs OB-1 VCOs<br \/>\n7:21 SEM vs OB-1 VCF<br \/>\n11:18 Other notes<br \/>\n11:35 Makeshift Four Voice<br \/>\n13:44 OB-1 Plug-in<br \/>\n15:11 Outro Jam<br \/>\n16:21 I did warn you<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video and share your thoughts on the <strong>Oberheim OB-1<\/strong> in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest video, synthesist Alex Ball offers a retro synth review of the rare Oberheim OB-1 synthesizer.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/11\/05\/oberheim-ob-1-retro-synth-review\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oberheim OB-1 Retro Synth Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[33215,271,30605,388,35323],"class_list":["post-151001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","tag-alex-ball","tag-history-of-electronic-music","tag-keyboard-synthesizers","tag-oberheim","tag-oberheim-ob-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/oberheim-ob-1-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151007,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151001\/revisions\/151007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}