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Oberheim OB-X8 is now a desktop module, in new edition of one of the best synths today
The all-analog-signal path, classic OB-X8 is now a desktop module. It’s a perfect synth: OB-X, OB-Xa, and OB-8 in one instrument, with all the Page 2 extras, and the sounds that made 1999 by Prince, among others.
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The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk
Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens – with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.
Peter Kirn - November 30, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Tech
What makes music and creativity? A talk with Susan Rogers
What makes creativity work in music? What happens in the brain? Susan Rogers has uniquely contemplated those questions both alongside artists like Prince and in research into the mind.
