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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Legendary
Synthesizer Expander Module Returns to Production at the Hands
of its Inventor</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Moraga, California (Nov. 22, 2010) –</i></span><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"> More than thirty five years after it
first appeared
on the musical landscape, the unique voice of the Tom Oberheim
Synthesizer
Expander Module (SEM) will sing again. Tom Oberheim, regarded as
one of the
world’s most influential electronic musical instrument
designers, is
reintroducing the SEM in three configurations, each of which is
true to the
analog design characteristics that were at the heart of the
original device. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Musicians familiar with the layout of
the original SEM
will feel right at home operating the new units; with only minor
hardware
alterations, due to non-availability of certain components, the
instruments are
virtually the same as the first units that shipped out the
factory door. The
three SEMs include a model with a thirty-three point “CV-Gate”
patch panel, one
with MIDI-to-CV conversion circuitry, and the newest addition to
the line, an
SEM-PRO model incorporating twenty-one patch points along the
top rail in
addition to MIDI-to-CV capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Tom Oberheim points to a decline in the
uniqueness in
the sonic characteristics of commercially available synthesizers
over the years
as one of the reasons he decided to undertake the resurrection
of the SEM.
“What happened in the eighties and nineties is that synthesizers
became so
perfected that they just lost their ‘edge,” Tom says. “ The old
stuff has some
real individualistic qualities.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Tom will build these units by hand at
his shop in
California. He plans to personally sign each of the SEM - PRO
units.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Prices are $899 for the SEM Patch Panel
and MIDI-to-CV
models and $1,199 for the SEM-PRO. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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