Fwd: Tom Oberheim PR/ SEM - PRO

[Matt Picone]

Got this today...

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*Legendary Synthesizer Expander Module Returns to Production at the 
Hands of its Inventor*

/Moraga, California (Nov. 22, 2010) –/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.

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.

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.”

Tom will build these units by hand at his shop in California. He plans 
to personally sign each of the SEM - PRO units.

Prices are $899 for the SEM Patch Panel and MIDI-to-CV models and $1,199 
for the SEM-PRO.







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