From simon@alphabeck.co.uk Sun Apr 01 17:32:45 2012
Subject:Re: Fujiha D9 aka Oberheim OB3 aka Viscount D9

Apart from the first sentence, this is a verbatim lift from the article I wrote for the Clonewheel Wiki a few years ago!

Incidentally, I can no longer access this Wiki to edit articles or add new ones. If anyone has Moderator status for the Clonewheel Wiki (and can still access it!) could you please make me a Moderator once again?

Thanks,

Simon Beck

> Not multi timbral, no reverb, no chorus I believe, poor sound and
nowhere near as good as the OB3^2, and I believe it doesn't transmit
drawbar midi cc's so no use as a controller either

> Viscount D9, also branded as Fujiha D9 and as Oberheim OB3

> An Italian-built analog
clonewheel instrument dating from the late 1980s. It could be seen as a
copy of Korg's original CX3 . A
similar but dual-manual instrument, the "Intercontinental OP-6" was
being made by Viscount as early as 1982.

> The D9 features a set of standard drawbars
, percussion
, overdrive, vibrato switches
and a mono "Intersound" Leslie
simulator. There was also a module
available called the D9E,
functionally identical to the keyboard version.

> The Fujiha name applied as an adhesive nameplate to some examples
appears to have been coined by a UK distributor to try and deflect the
perceived lack of credibility of Italian keyboards at the time. The
Oberheim-branded OB3 (differing from the D9 only in its color) was the
precursor to the very successful digital
OB3²
organ and module but unlike the
later ( squared ) instruments was not multi-timbral. They were produced
as a joint venture by the Italian and American companies.

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