Firmware update feature requests/bugs

[The Real MC]

I don't own an OB-X8 but I've seen a video demo where the synth was in layer mode, and you couldn't tweak the filter cutoff of both layers simultaneously, but that was an early firmware revision and Oberheim/Sequential said that they were working on that. Has it been added yet in the later firmware revisions? Anybody know? Thanks.

That's what the rear panel FILTER jack is for.

[RadioWavz]

Arpeggiator doesn't have clock divider when receiving external clock. I would think the Rate dial should be a good solution for this.

Yes! To add to some of the other comments, I would love to see:

- Clock divider on the ARP when using an external clock

- When in double/split, have a MIDI channel for each part

-  Use the screen to show ADSR when editing

- Use the screen to show any parameter value when editing

- allow setting to change sustain pedal to hold versus slow fade style. I like both. Option would be great.

- Would like some other options on the ARP style in general. I love arpeggios and it can feel a bit limited at times.

Most of these have been suggested before. Might be good to add an upvote to the forum.

Keep improving on this amazing machine!

[thaJeztah]

- allow setting to change sustain pedal to hold versus slow fade style. I like both. Option would be great.

That's already there (but it's a global config); global menu, page 17: "Sustain Pedal Mode"

Unfortunately, OB-X8 doesn't (yet?) have a config for note priority, so it's not as useful as on other synths

[Laubi77]

I use DOUBLE mode alot - editing UPPER and LOWER simultaneously would be much easier by simply pressing both buttons...

Pressing UNISON with 1 to 8 for the number of voices would be handy

[Supernaut]

I sold my previous pride and joy, a vintage Prophet-5, to purchase an OB-X8. I thoroughly researched the sound design parameters beforehand and have no complaints. But, I have been thinking about the one feature that the Prophet offers that the X8 lacks, namely high audio-rate modulation of the filter cutoff. I know that the OB-X8's LFO can be pushed to 50 Hz and applied to the filter (and indeed PWM). However, for each voice, the Prophet's Poly-Mod controls let you apply the frequency of Oscillator 2 to the filter chip that it's being fed through, which can yield interesting results.
I accept that this can't be done in hardware unless the circuits were laid out so as to permit it, although I can think of a way that it could possibly be done in software, were the processor sufficiently powerful. But what about a Page 2 option to let you switch the LFO into a higher frequency range, in the manner of the Buchla Music Easel? Were this possible, you could at least modulate the filter chips en masse at a high frequency, e.g. 5 kHz.

[Chai Baba]

This was mentioned before, but I like to emphasise it.

1) syncable LFO`s  - please (It`s so hard to dial in the right amount. A 5 or 10 time "magnification", using the same knob while make it finer to use would do the job, too. But maybe it`s not helping the process to become more simple, as it could have been.)

While making a track it happens occasionally that I change the bpm of it. It really varies from day to day in the early phase of creation until it is set.

2) panspread in per cent in stead of quarters of a whole. Smoother, like on an OB-6

[redpony]

1- Make Page 2 shortcuts work with manual mode.

2 - Add an option to delete/add space when naming a patch. Perhaps a keyboard note press.

3 - Add 2nd Page shortcut to adjust Osc volume by way of freq knob.

4 - Sync LFOs to tempo.