I think a Forum Desktop is a great idea...  I hope Sequential is reading this.

For anyone reading this.... I managed to fix it by:
- using a Mac with Sysex Librarian instead of a PC
- using the bootloader method with a U-NO midi interface
- IMPORTANT, THIS IS WHAT DID IT: reducing send speed to 50% and setting buffer size to 256. Anything else kept it bricked.

Curious if you tried MIDIOX only or Bome SendSX? 

On one of my PCs, MIDIOX always works fine enough with a few output buffer tweaks, but ran into an issue recently on a different PC with USB (not sure if it was the hub or not).....  Tried Bome SendSX instead and it worked on the first try without tweaks.  Much more streamlined interface too.

https://www.bome.com/products/sendsx

Well I think I found what happened.

All the documentation, including this very forum, points you to https://sequential.com/updating-ob-6-os/

The problem is that their "latest OS" download, downloads 1.2.0.

If you want 1.8.0 you have to get it from Oberheim's site.

So I've flashed a 10-years old OS, potentially bricking it, because the official download link is wrong.

With the great Sam Neil's passing I wanted to pay tribute to one of his greatest films: John Carpenter's In The Mouth Of Madness.

This isn't a 1 to 1 cover of any of the cues by Carpenter and Jim Lang but there's definitely an influence and a hint of the main melody from the film.

Like Carpenter's collaboration with Jim Lang on Body Bags the synth lineup for this was

Digital Performer software running on a Macintosh Iicx computer.

EIVxp
Forat F16.
Hammond B3,
Wurlitzer electric piano,
MicroMoog,
Roland MKS80, D550,
Prophet VS,
Yamaha DX and TX series,
EMU Proteus 1 and 2,
Korg M1r and M1rex,
AKAI 612

I spoke with Jim Lang not too long ago and he also told me

"The lead guitar on the main title and end credits is Dave Davies from the Kinks. I believe he played a Les Paul on that. The rhythm guitar I can’t recall. John Carpenter played the guitar on "Robby’s office" from the score. I think that might have been a Gibson 335 or something similar. Otherwise all the “guitar” sounds were me playing a synth- probably a DX7 or something similar- or samples of my friend Danny Jacob.".

For this tribute my Sequential Prophet X was handling most of the heavy lifting in regards to the atmospheric pads and choirs and scary sound effects. All done using the onboard 8Dio Factory Samples.

My borrowed Ibanez RG handled the guitar work and was running through my Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii guitar pedal on a custom RLD amp "Intense". There's also some electronic percussion from the Adrenalinn as well.

Like the original score, everything was sequenced via Digital Performer as well.

I think this turned out quite well. I hope you enjoy,

R.I.P. Sam Neil (1947-2026)

© Everett Dudgeon 2026
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2RJ_Rp5Uo

I've noticed that in this new age, there is a tendency (probably to stay competitive) to over promise with the intention of finishing the product vision over future product updates.

I believe this is introduces new challenges where it's hard to keep your coding crew motivated to work on a product that "feels" like it's done, notably if the company has begun new developments for future products.

Recently, i've seen a couple of cases of company simply open sourcing the code (sometimes with realistic limits), so that the users can "finish" the product. Although this can introduce new challenges, i believe it gets things done quicker and with less ressources, instead of having the programmer crew work on an old product, you just need one person to check the proposed code for potential problems, test it thoroughly, etc.

It also creates a nice sense of community around a product as the users can lend a hand, with the reward being the bettering of the tool you love to use.

At the end of the day, the company can still have control over what gets pushed out and what doesn't align with the product design philosophy.

I'm saying this because the last firmware has been in beta for a while now, so i can't help but to read between the lines that no one at the company is super excited about finishing this up, or introducing long awaited small tweaks that would absolutely bring this product's workflow to the top of its game.

This is not a complaint, more like a suggestion for a modern approach to a new kind of challenge,
.. or well, just hire me ! 

Francis.