From dale.hunter@envoy.com Thu Jul 26 06:07:35 2001
Subject:Re: Yet another evaluation: OB-3


Thanks for the definitive explanation on this deal. It was my incorrect
assumption regarding the upgrade chip.
I apologize for the incorrect advice in my earlier e-mail, but it just goes
to show that even if you have played for 30 plus years as I have, you can
still be a moron on occasion.


tymelys22@tadamson.great
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cc:
07/25/01 07:00 PM Subject: Re: [CWSG] Yet another evaluation:
Please respond to OB-3
CloneWheel


Hi,
I'm coming in late on this as I have had a major computer crash but I
have owned a Fujiha D9E (I think that that was the number) which I
believe was cosmetically altered to become the OB3 but which was
by and large the the same animal, a sheep in sheep's clothing and
definitely not a B3 beast.
Compared to the OB3^2 which I also owned the the Fujiha was dire.
Murky, describes it. The was only one midi channel available at a
time so you could choose between having upper manual play or have the
lower manual play.
I can't be absolutely certain but I think it would be nigh on
impossible that a chip existed to up-grade the OB to an OB^2 because
the latter has more presets, catering as it does for three midi
channels.
Personally I wouldn't touch the earlier model with a very long barge
pole even if it was cheap from the planet Give Away.
I did though like the OB3^2 but just couldn't get to grips with its
beating problem, which on ocasion, and on playing certain chords,
renders the upper manual out of tune with the lower manual.
If you only use the one manual, no problem.

For an instrument to be out of tune with the band is unfortunate, but
to be out of tune with itself is irresponsible.
I wrote to Oberheim on this matter and after 3 month's of effort,
managed to get them to send me an up-grade chip?
I don't speak Italian so I couldn't find out what the up-grade chip
was really intended to up-grade. It turned out to be the same chip as
was already in my module. At this point, I gave up and changed the
module for another beast altogether.
An earlier poster mentioned that the Leslie on fast was not good, but
I found it to be excellent to tell the truth, not CX3. but an
improvement on Hammond's Digital Leslie IMO and sweet sounding.
Perhaps more scanner vibrato,(Hammond's own Leslie simulator)rather
than full on Leslie but very musical for all that. However the Leslie
effect could be rendered dire by routing its output to a mono source.
It needed its left and right, hard panned to left and right to sound
good. Panning to centre, or playing in mono was a nono, the
complete opposite in fact to the effects of panning on the Rotosphere.
Only my opinion of course ( let your ears be the judge ) but given
honestly.
Regards, Thomas.
P.S. The OB3^2 module is available new in London at turnkey.co.uk at
£299 and that's buck banging.

--- In CloneWheel@y..., Bruce Wahler wrote:
> Dale,
>
> >I know you can get a chip to upgrade the OB3 to the OB3-2, but I
am not
> >sure where you can order the chip. Does anyone else in the group
know where
> >you can order the chip?
>
> Are you certain of this? I was under the impression that the OB-
3^2 (OB-3
> squared) was related to the original, but not a direct expansion of
the
> original design. I saw the squared version in a music store about
a year
> ago, and I thought it had more knobs and buttons than the original,
> too. Lastly, the original version is a predominantly analog
design, and
> those designs are usually not upgradeable through firmware-only.
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> --
> Bruce Wahler
> Design Consultant
> Ashby Solutions"
> www.ashbysolutions.com
> CloneWheel Support Group moderator
> 978.386.7389 voice
> 978.964.0547 fax
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