I used the word “render”, as it was used in the post right before mine. The “image” set have the angles and views you might expect in a render, and it was the first thought i had when i saw them. I don’t know for sure but the color in the photograph was different. Final decisions on colors often change around pre-production anyway, that’s easy to change, and hence you see companies bringing out the limited run colors later as well. Need to see it in person to know what you think about this all anyway.
Yeah i was wondering about the forces behind the manufacture of whatever this was going to be a while back. The most recent product from Oberheim before this was the limited run re-issue, the TVS-PRO Special Edition, and it sounded from the description at the time, enough of a challenge for him to restart that manufacture. So given that Dave, and others were a prominent part of the teaser video, gives me an impression that others could assist with some of the production detail on this.
I think it would be nice if there was a full Oberheim division next to Sequential and Novation. Like i said elsewhere, Tom surely has a ton of ideas … he could go through his notebooks and pick out good ideas, or do more sketches on sheets of paper, like in the video, and let others follow up with some of the engineering work, guided by Tom in an “emeritus” engineer sort of role. That can work well.
People are still creating new stuff from old Buchla ideas, some of the stuff impossible when originally conceived.
So let’s look for more from Oberheim Corporation
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