Joe Zawinul, Styx, Rush and Jean-Michel Jarre built signature tones on the Oberheim 8-Voice, the first truly polyphonic synth most players ever touched.

As GForce’s OB-E® neared release, Tom Oberheim and Marcus Ryle, an Oberheim engineer in the 1980s, were impressed enough to suggest a collaboration and release an update carrying their full endorsement.

The Oberheim SEM™ and OB-X™ followed. OB-EZ continues that partnership, built to put the sound of OB-E in more hands than ever.

OB-EZ is not a lite version of OB-E in terms of sound. It is OB-E under the hood. The same authentic octaphonic 8-voice architecture powers every patch, which is why so few synths in the software domain sound this fat.

Connoisseurs will spot the parallel with the 1980 Oberheim OB-SX, the streamlined stage version of the OB-X™. OB-EZ takes the same approach. Cutoff, resonance, Amp and Filter envelopes, tuning, portamento, delay, reverb and more are all on the panel, and every tweak you make can be saved.

The authentic state variable Oberheim filter that defined the 8-Voice, with a Vintage knob for dialling in analog variation between voices.

A stereo Delay to thicken your sound or add a spatial dimension, the same lush Reverb as OB-E, four Panning Modes for wide soundscapes and Vibrato, all onboard.