OBERHEIM SYNTH

All the voice boards are the same.  
The general number convention is voice 1-4 are on the bottom, voices 
5-8 are on top.  
Running as a 7 voice is no problem, but you will only get 3 voices 
rather than four when you split the board (the other end of the split 
will have 4 voices) , but when you double, some strange things might 
happen - I have never tried it. 

 

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, "L8RDOOD" <nansbears@...> wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat of a novice so forgive me if my questions 
seem "ignorant". 
> I bought off Ebay quite awhile ago an Oberheim OBX-a. I got it 
cheap 
> because the seller said it was "dropping a sound". Not knowing any 
> difference at the time, I thought it would be cool to have a 
vintage 
> synth to "restore" as a project. Well, due to several unforseen 
> situations, I wasn't able to get on the project so I put it off for 
a 
> year. As I researched, I found the contacts needed to be cleaned & 
the 
> keys leveled, among other things. Since my time for this was not 
going 
> to be like I thought, I decided to take it in to a repair shop in 
L.A.. 
>    It took quite a while but the repairman said it was missing a 
voice 
> board. To get all the work done, he wanted nearly double what I 
even 
> paid for it so I decided to pass on getting the board for now. So 
now 
> it's a 7 voice synth. I had the contacts cleaned anyways and I will 
be 
> picking it up this week(minus the missing board). 
>    Here goes the questions: Are all the voices the same? If not, 
are 
> they numbered or named so I know what to get? Does anyone on this 
list 
> have any boards available to sell? Is this even worth my time to do 
> this? If anyone has done this in the past, please help if you can & 
> thanks for all your help in advance!
>