OBERHEIM SYNTH

What is it? How does it work? I found it at a garage sale; the owner
said he picked it up at an estate sale thinking it was computer gear.
He asked me if $5 was too much. Was it?

http://www.cassiel.com/space/Gearhead/Oberheim+Cyclone

On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Antone Ray wrote:

> What is it? How does it work? I found it at a garage sale; the owner
>  said he picked it up at an estate sale thinking it was computer gear.
>  He asked me if $5 was too much. Was it?

It's an arppegiator but will do a lot of other stuff.  It can make a 
MIDI keyboard work like the modern ones that you can hold down one key 
and it plays the bass and an accompaniment.

It is very tough to program as you only have TWO characters in the 
window.  You have to have the manual to know what the two characters 
stand for.

I had one and found it too challenging and time consuming to use.  A 
serious music geek with lots of spare time could make it do a lot of 
interesting stuff!

I think Oberheim hired one of the guys from Sequential Circuits and he 
or they designed the series that was the PROformance-I believe it was 
called.  This is only my theory.  The boxes had a lot of SC ideas in 
them.

FWIW

Charlie in the swamp

On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:48 PM, John Wieczorek wrote:

>

Nope. They were direct lifts from the code in the XK. Especially the
Systemizer -- it was basically an XK without the keys and less memory slots.

Damned powerful tools when you get them sussed. 

-----Original Message-----
From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Charles Massey
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:05 PM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [oberheim] Oberheim Cyclone

It's an arppegiator but will do a lot of other stuff.  It can make a MIDI
keyboard work like the modern ones that you can hold down one key and it
plays the bass and an accompaniment.

It is very tough to program as you only have TWO characters in the window.
You have to have the manual to know what the two characters stand for.

I had one and found it too challenging and time consuming to use.  A serious
music geek with lots of spare time could make it do a lot of interesting
stuff!

I think Oberheim hired one of the guys from Sequential Circuits and he or
they designed the series that was the PROformance-I believe it was called.
This is only my theory.  The boxes had a lot of SC ideas in them.

FWIW

Charlie in the swamp

On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:48 PM, John Wieczorek wrote:

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--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, "Antone Ray" <tflas@...> wrote:
>
> What is it? How does it work? I found it at a garage sale; the owner
> said he picked it up at an estate sale thinking it was computer gear.
> He asked me if $5 was too much. Was it?

Hey you got a deal , Cyclones sell on eBay for between $75 and $175. 

The model line was called Perf/X and Oberheim made 5 models, each 
which did something different.  The Cyclone was the  arpeggiator and 
for its time was very advanced in its feature set.  Today software 
does more but if you have any outboard hardware synths, the Cyclone 
can make some nice music. 

BAD NEWS Without a manual you will not be able to figure out how it 
works because the interface is real cryptic, hey its hard even with a 
mumanual 

GOOD NEWS  - I have an extra photocopy of the manual laying around and 
if you don't live outside the US , I'll send it to you gratis if you 
email me your address off line  bcomnes@... - The only price I 
want you to pay is to donate a few bucks (the postage cost) to some 
street musician bustin his ass to pay his bills 

and I guess if you sell it on eBay with the manual you should pay 
another street musician a few more bucks for your good fortune -  it's 
all up to your conscience 

Peace 
Brian

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, "Antone Ray" <tflas@...> wrote:
>
> What is it? How does it work? I found it at a garage sale; the owner
> said he picked it up at an estate sale thinking it was computer gear.
> He asked me if $5 was too much. Was it?
>


Hey , I just noticed that the manual is in the files section , but 
soft copy only ...if you still want the 78 page hard copy let me know

> The model line was called Perf/X and Oberheim made 5 models, each which
did something different.

I have a Perf/X Oberheim Navigator.

What is IT?

-m@

The navigator always was a mystery to me too.

I thought the Strummer was very cool, though, and I'd love to find a good
deal on one. 

-----Original Message-----
From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Matt Picone
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:35 PM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [oberheim] Re: Oberheim Cyclone

> The model line was called Perf/X and Oberheim made 5 models, each 
> which
did something different.

I have a Perf/X Oberheim Navigator.

What is IT?

-m@




 
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> I have a Perf/X Oberheim Navigator.
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> What is IT?
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> -m@
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the Navigator is a MIDI re-mapper, you can set up a "table" so that 
every c# becomes an F, etc ...it is particularly useful for mapping 
MIDI drum patterns between different drum machines or for on-the-fly 
changing the drums used on one machine 

if your old synth lacked a transpose you could use it for that too

Would do keyboard splits on keyboards that didn't split, which is what 
I got it for.

On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:09 PM, bcomnes wrote:

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>> I have a Perf/X Oberheim Navigator.
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>> What is IT?
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>> -m@
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> the Navigator is a MIDI re-mapper, you can set up a "table" so that
> every c# becomes an F, etc ...it is particularly useful for mapping
> MIDI drum patterns between different drum machines or for on-the-fly
> changing the drums used on one machine
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> if your old synth lacked a transpose you could use it for that too
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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