Yes, I am after a well looked after OB8 or OBX-a for the studio. It’s the only old synth I really want for my studio and I will wit until I come across the right one. Would rather buy newer analog/DCO synths hence the Prophet 08.
Would be great if Moog had a serious stab at an 8 voice poly at a DSI price. 
Since I’ll never be able to afford a Jupiter 8, have you ever compared the Prophet 08 and the Poly-Evolver keyboard? Connected to my Poly-Evolver Rack I have 8 voices as well, but have always wondered if it was worth looking into the Prophet 08. Do you think the 08 and Poly-Evolver are pretty similar in sound, or quite a bit different?
Thanks
I had a P08, it was a disappointment. It didnt sound ‘alive’ like the OB-8 did. Good resale value if you bide your time though, so no harm in trying one out.
Love my pro 08
I do know the OB-8 well although I am a guitarist by trade. The singer in my band Darren had one for years when we first started our band in 85. He was the keyboard player in Thin Lizzy although with Lizzy, I think he used an OBX-a when he used an Oberheim.
When the scene went digital and DCO in the mid 80’s and all those great analog synths went out of fashion, I used to take the OB-8 to my house as there were now DX7, Akai S900, JX8p, and a JX10 in our studio and they were the current flavour at the time.
Used to love the Oberheim OB-8 although it was not the most reliable synth… Even in the studio Live it was generally a nightmare and get retired pretty quickly.
No internet back then. Things are much easier to get serviced now. Just a quick google search or a message on a forum and you get to know all the great people who know these synths inside out. Back then in the UK, not many people we knew up in Manchester could fix them.
I have had a history of playing in bands with synths. After that band above (Dare), I joined Asia with Geoff Downes for their Aqua world tour then after that, spent a few years in Ultravox with Billy Currie. In another of my bands (Ten) we had Don Airey play with us for an album and a tour. I have played with some fantastic keyboard players and been around a lot of great synths and sounds. Been lucky.
Anyway. Come on Moog. Get a good poly synth out of the door
For everyone that complains that polychaining moots is “too expensive” it looks like the akai timbre wolf is now shipping. $500 for a four voice analog? Not really my thing, but it might hold some of you guys over until something better comes along.
To be fair, that is more of a toy. All the reviews and demos i read and saw said they could not get that Akai remotely in tune over any usable range.
Agreed. from the looks of it, there is a filter per voice, but u couldn’t see ADSR on it anywhere. Not just per-voice. But I might just not have seen it. I think the demos are pre-production, full of glitches, in true Akai fashion. That demo sounded usable though.
Agreed. I auditioned an '08 in a store and the filters were too weak for my taste. The 12dB filter had no b@lls at all.
OB-X actually. I have a DVD of one of those Thin Lizzy concerts.
ASTONISHING !!!
And impressioning about the SO positive feedback about the 08. You hit the target heavily.
But, MC, youre right and wrong. The key is, and this has been now often discussed: When the filter, exspecially 24dB, is fully open it sounds week. But thats absolutely NO PROBLEM. The more you close, the more sound becoms fatter and fatter.
Thats the key. Thats a worldwide common mistake that people crank up the filter and judge without going more deeply into.
If you start moving the filter with all the modulation sources, ENV, etc youll get head-blowing. I dont know what you did in that store then. 
But despite, hope also we`ll get a fat “Moog” Poly, regardless with or without the Moog brand.
You are probably right. There were a couple OB’s that Lizzy owned. I remember Lizzy’s management selling off all the assets and all Phil and Darren’s keys came into our local studio shop Audio Services on commission sale.
There were two OB’s One was definitely an OBX-a and the other I am sure was black. Would that have been the OBX? I think the Oberheim’s were actually from Phil’s 8 track studio originally.
Was such shame because we were skint at the time and trying to get our studio together for our demos and all his gear was there including the Arp Odyssey and his Mini Moog and there was no money to buy them. Always wondered where they ended up. They were all in Lizzy flight cases.
Later the same year I got my publishing deal with Chrysalis. Our manager offered me a flight cased Jupiter 8 for £500 but I bought a Revox B-77 instead. Always kicked myself for that haha.
PS After Darren moved back to Manchester when Lizzy split, it was on OB-8 he bought for himself. So, although he used an OBX/OBX-a in Lizzy, we definitely had an OB-8 in Dare. I have pictures of it from the studio and the odd gig where we were still using it.
P.S.
OB-X and OBa:
Nowadays they can be fixed and adjusted precisely. NO fools anymore ever !
Ha. I look forward to picking one up then.
We use filters differently. I look for resonant quality and I have a couple of “acid test” patches that I dial up.
The 24dB filter wasn’t bad. The 12dB filter, yuk. When in 12dB mode the resonance control seemed to have next to no effect, couldn’t get any resonant color out of it.
The video image had a clear view of the rear panel. There were CV/trigger input/output jacks where the DB37 Oberheim Interface port was on the OB-Xa/8, which positively identified it as an OB-X.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
I should be seeing Darren in a few days.
But DON´T forget about the many parts you`ll find more and more rarely for an eventual fixing.
Well, youre right, I rarely use the 12dB, probably for the same reason, but Ive to admit that till now I didnt put an eye on intensively. Im going to jump on in the next time because you made me itchy now.
On the Chroma the 12dB is pretty fine, so I`m going to compare.
Ive got more deeply into the 12dB of the 08 and in deed the Emphasis is kinda faint, but doesnt hit me at all.
To compare with the 12dB/Emphasis of the Chroma is impossible because the Emphasis there works different.
On all Moogs and most other synths when enhancing the Emphasis all harmonics going to be more and more accentuated and the basic note will be at the same time more and more diminished.
On the Chroma, and that`s one of his great specifications the basic note will NOT be diminished the more Emphasis will be cranced up.
I spoke today to my tech in a hurry hence I cannot reproduce precisely what he explained to me of the JP8.
As for the array how the 12dB of the JP8 works, its Emphasis is also pretty faint.
Here is the OB-8. Forgive the clothes. It was the 80’s haha.
clothes? you mean hair don’t you?
looking at it again, I think both are fair game!
Guilty as charged lol. My mullet is truly a mullet to behold hahaha.