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Tom Oberheim turns 89 today; a conversation with Tom
Tom Oberheim may be in retirement, but the instruments and his legacy are just getting started. Artists are rediscovering vintage classics, and instruments like the new TEO-5 are taking off. So to celebrate his 89th birthday, here’s a recent conversation with the man behind that famous synth name.
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Oberheim TEO-5: Tom’s legacy, now on desktop, $1399
They’re built on the same platform, the development of which was overseen by the late Dave Smith. They cost roughly the same price and take up the same amount of space. But TEO-5 is not Take 5. Look to the Oberheim desktop instrument for the SEM multimode filter, linear through-zero FM, and its own unique effects. Here’s the synth Tom and team built.
Peter Kirn - July 1, 2025
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Sequential Take 5: Dave Smith’s legacy, now on desktop, $1299
One of Dave Smith’s last projects was overseeing the tech platform that would become Take 5. And that was a breakthrough: everything great about the Prophet-5 meets fresh modulation and effects and an accessible price. Now, you can bring Take 5 home for $1299 as a compact desktop unit. Oberheim’s TEO-5 desktop is also out today at that price, thanks to that underlying tech, but let’s talk Sequential first.
Peter Kirn - July 1, 2025
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Aircraft Designs is putting a full analog mastering suite into Eurorack
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The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog
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