OBERHEIM SYNTH

As promised, I have scanned and uploaded the Oberheim OB-Xa 
"Programmed Patches" book to my website at this address:

http://www.electrongate.com/obfiles/OB-Xa/patchbook.html

Enjoy, and let me know if you find any broken links or mistakes.

Thanks,
Paul White

At 10:49 PM 5/30/09, you wrote:


>i appreciate your help. you know that's a lot of work for you to 
>scan all that. don't you want me to just buy a copy of the patch 
>book from you, at least to compensate you for your time?
>
>Jonathan G. Chance, Esq.
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>
>--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Paul J. White <pjwhite@...> wrote:
>
>From: Paul J. White <pjwhite@...>
>Subject: Re: [oberheim] obxa factory presets--do I have dead memory patches?
>To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 5:57 PM
>
>At 04:39 PM 5/30/09, you wrote:
> >Hello: at the cost of a small fortune, I've just successfully
> >restored an OBX-A that was left for scrap. My repair (surprisingly)
> >had a backup tape of the presets from another obxa that had come
> >through his shop. Listening to the presents that loaded in and
> >comparing them to the preset chart in the owner's manual shows that
> >most of these are the factory presets (there may be a couple of the
> >other owern's patches thrown in). Here's my issue. for patch A3 and
> >the last two groups (CD and ACD) if I push the patch combinations,
> >different lights light up, indicating to me that the patch is
> >actually loaded and the synth has turned on the various parameters
> >that make up that particular patch, e.g, saw versus other waves,
> >unison or not, s/h or not, etc.--but NO SOUND comes out. What does
> >this indicate? There is something wrong with the memory patch of the
> >synth for those patches? Something else? Thanks in advance for any
> >suggestions.
>
>I can think of a couple of possibilities:
>1. Bad patch tape. Try programming patch A3 manually (see patch
>sheet here 
><http://www.electrongate.com/obfiles/OB-Xa_patch_A3.jpg>http://www.electron 
>gate.com/ obfiles/OB- Xa_patch_ A3.jpg)
>and see if it works OK.
>2. Bad or missing RAM chip. Try storing a working patch in the CD
>and ACD banks and see if they stick.
>
>Good luck.
>
>-- Paul White
>
>