OBERHEIM SYNTH

At 09:11 PM 4/22/09, you wrote:
>Hi, I would like to know if this is correct...
>When Oberheim was still in business, they made the Matrix-1000 with 
>the black face.
>Then Gibson Guitar bought Oberheim in 1986 and from then on all 
>Matrix-1000 had the white face.
>It was Gibson's idea to make the face white and any white 
>Matrix-1000 were manufactured by Gibson Guitar.
>Is this correct ?
>
>I have checked wikipedia and vintagesynth.com and there seems to be some
>date errors like, if Oberheim closed in 1986 when gibson bought them 
>(wiki) and vintagesynth.com
>sates matrix-1000 production was from 1987 to
>1994 then there would be never any black face units.
>
>If any one could help to know when the white face started I'd really
>appreciate it.

I can't really help with Oberheim's history beyond when I left 
Oberheim in July 1986, but I remember they were starting to produce 
black-face Matrix-1000s around that time.  So there would have been 
about 6 months of production going on before 1987.

-- Paul White