The Most Realistic Vintage Synth VST Yet? // GForce Oberheim OB-X

[@classicarcadeamusementpark4242]

What most of your viewers would really like to hear, is a direct comparison to your OB-X8 keyboard! Perhaps try taking some of your favorite presets on the OB-X8 and program them into the OB-X VST, and vice versa. I do hear some people say even the OB-X8 doesn't sound like their OB-X, but it sounds good to me. We're all curious how close this VST sounds to the real thing, and if we should consider the OB-X8 or if this VST will be equally as impressive when using "famous" OB-X sounds, besides the obvious that some people just prefer using hardware.

[@MadelnMachines]

Definitely

[@dynamiketiger]

Yes that would be awesome ❤

[@alainthiry3965]

exactly

[@robnewton3368]

Bought this recently and sounds excellent very organic. I have the OB-E, Oscar and SEM, which helps as returning registered customers get a significant discount to make it a no brainer.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Awesome to hear you got it! I think this one and the OB-E are my two faves from them.

[@ChristopherGwinn]

Very impressed with this one - I already trust GForce, so I bought it on release day without demoing and was not disappointed. Made me question if I even need some of my analog hardware synths, LOL.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Great to hear! Yea I will always use hardware but vsts really have come so far 😊

[@lextron-audio]

Same. If a company made a high quality midi controller with a bunch of overlays for various analogue models that would be amazing

[@Tyrell_Corp2019]

Agree. If you like this synth… this is the one. Sounds incredible to me.

[@finspire8632]

@@lextron-audio Was thinking exactly the same... Perhaps Novation 49/61 SL MKIII comes close?

[@rhythmace1]

​@@lextron-audioThis! I have no idea why this hasn't been done already. Incidentally Soundforce has a dedicated controller on the way for OB-X, but you're right that a more generic one with overlays would be better for many people.

[@kungfujiujitsufliptrick4832]

BEING LOOKING FOR A VST LIKE THIS FOR A LONG TIME THANK YOU!

[@JayTheLane]

Stellar sounds and great demo. Glad I found your channel 💜

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Welcome aboard!

[@loweroctaves]

Just got my OB-X8 and now i can’t wait to get this lol thank you for the continued reviews.🔊✨✨✨

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thank you for watching!

[@jeffevansmusic]

The now available free original OBX preset bank is really nice too. I did mention this here before but it seems to have disappeared. This is a lovely VST for sure. Especially in unison doing a wild filter sweep. Only the hardware could do that up till now but they have nailed this in software so well now its just crazy. Earth shattering is an understatement.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thanks for the info! I think you mentioned it was coming below, but great to hear its out now!

[@payt01]

Sounds awesome. I guess the obvious thing to do is to compare it to the OB-X8 :) I wonder how close it gets to it's interpretation of the OB-X

[@radaget3459]

I agree. Whenever I listen to the patches on the hardware, many of them give me goosebumps. I don't think I've heard any demos of this - so far - that have that effect.

[@payt01]

@@radaget3459 Same here, but I'm blaming the presets which seem a bit underwhelming for the most part. There are some nice ones, and at times I hear Oberheim-like filtersweeps and sounds.. but yeah, I wonder if the real magic is in there, waiting to be brought out if you tickle it the right way. :)

[@MrCowfood]

I am sure at some point there will be an a/b. If not here, somewhere on the tubes…. Might be that this one gets tricky in that with the Oberheim endorsed branding, it could hurt sales of the obx8?

[@jeffevansmusic]

So close you wont have to spend the fortune required for the OBX8!

[@SmileMoreCEO]

G-Force is simply great at modeling! Shouts to Jerome and the team 😃

[@elazionmusic]

What chords are you playing at 6:40-45? That little motif gets stuck in my head so much since watching this! I think I’ve rewatched this 5 times at least just to listen to your playing 😅 I think you need more synth performance videos man, I love listening to you play through patches. I’d listen to 30 mins of playing that Golden Shores for sure 😂

[@virgilsstudio]

Impressive sounds and the patches that were created are stellar compared to Omnisphere, Diva, Dune 3, Falcon, etc. Many kudos to the developers/musicians involved.

[@RayyMusik]

I have some VST Oberheims: OP-X Pro II, OB-Xd, OBsession, OB-E. But since I have my OB-X8m, I don‘t use them anymore - except the OB-E. That is the only case where software really does make sense because you can edit all 8 SEMs together and I‘ll never get the vintage 8-voice hardware for sure. GForce does a brilliant job with these VST synths, albeit many presets are drowned in FX.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Agreed! and agreed, most VSTs drown presets in reverb but the core tone of this one really is great

[@rhythmace1]

Computer Music mag is giving away impOSCar2 this month if you feel like adding a new GForce synth to your collection!

[@checkitout611]

Out of those ... OP-X Pro II ... Flat out great sound and (for me anyway) the closest to the real thing (lots going on under the hood though and a manual dive is needed)! Get the new SoundForce SFC-OB MIDI controller and it's a great combo.

[@planetclay]

one of the very best synth-releases this part year.

[@MPHORROCKS]

Nice that he gets to try the whole gamut of presets. Not sure why the G-Force demo versions are so limited patch-wise! :(

[@jeffevansmusic]

Its sound is really excellent for sure. They are going to release for owners of this a free bank of all the original patches for this as well. Stay tuned!

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

That’s amazing news! The og OB presets are really solid

[@SoundAuthor]

That's awesome news!

[@JOPetry]

How do you know that? I hope you have reliable sources for this claim... would be nice to have the original patches.

[@jeffevansmusic]

@@JOPetry I wrote to them and told them how amazed I was at the sound of this plugin. They replied and thanked me and told me about this set of sounds that will be coming out. Not sure when. If you have bought it just keep an eye on your account. They may announce it though anyway.

[@JOPetry]

Thank you for your answer, i'll check my account from time to time.

[@HeyItsUSM4N]

The ad for NI AfterTouch with the guy using Diva was on before this vid started and here the Oberheim functions with it really well

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Ooh yea that would be a great combo with the new NI keyboard!

[@ajotech]

Excellent video Miles Away wow!

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thanks for watching ! Lots more synth videos on this channel :)

[@johnsuggs7828]

It's 59.99 now. Grab it. I literally just got it along with the Imposcar2 (19.99), which is also a great synth. Nerry holi-Kwanz-Chanukkah to meee. LOL Great video, great synth.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Great deal! Thanks for watching, more VST and hardware synth videos soon , stay subscribed!

[@JeromeDenanot]

I was also looking for more demos as there are few on GForce site, and these are really Impressive. Do you intend to sell your custom patches ? I own ImpOscar since 2005 (first version, then 2.0 recently), and it was the only software plugin that sounded as fat as a real synth at the time. I still don't understand why most software plugins couldn't reach digital hardware synths, however it seems GForce knows !

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Hey! Thanks for watching. I usually do hardware presets, but I am going to release a Serum Analog Emulation preset pack to see how it does. If that sells well I will definitely consider doing presets for one of these other gforce soft synths; maybe do a poll on what people mostly have!

[@JeromeDenanot]

@@MilesAwayOfficial Hi, good idea about Serum, I've heard good things about it. I finally bought OB-X (10 times less expensive than an hardware 2 osc synth) and I started a nice song just using the first presets (I've plenty to discover) so it is an indication it sounds great. The sound is wide and deep, and it reacts like analog (pitch/portamento and filters react slightly differently on each key press). And a complex preset only uses 2 percent of my CPUs, I've more than 90 percent idle with 4 instances on Logic Pro (12 CPU M2 Pro).

[@damiensargeant2432]

Dig the informal vid good content thanks🌷

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thank you!

[@yvanroustan4426]

does someone have issue with midi CC mapping : i can save my mapping but after browsing 2-3 other sounds my CC mapping is not working anymore... 🤔

[@jeffevansmusic]

They have updated this too by the way. Version 1.0.1 is now available in your account.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

awesome thanks!

[@dynamiketiger]

Ooh this is special. I feel it.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Agreed!

[@tregellis1]

The demo song has me missing my daughter Murph while I fall into a black hole ❤️

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

haha good catch ;) definitely inspired by that incredible score

[@theshape6908]

Great video man. How do you link this up to an actual keyboard? I’m such a newbie. And what keyboard do you use?

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thanks! This will connect to any keyboard with MIDI over USB. You use a USB midi cable. Any cheap controller would work, but if you have a bit more of a budget, you can grab anything with a fatar keyboard (nicest feeling synth keys).

[@SoundAuthor]

I think "Strings of Love" is my favorite patch.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

It's a great one eh!

[@JeromeDenanot]

Also liked it a lot !

[@paulmapp8306]

just picked this up. Im not a VST guy - but as Im out of space for hardware.... I have a Prophet 6 and OB 6 (and a 3rd wave), and have often though about replacing them with the OB8x and P10... BUT I bake FX into patches and thats always put me off. I have a Fractal Axe-FX I use for outboard FX, but I cant synth ta to the P10/OBx8 to sync saved patches. So - this weekend I picked up a few things (used i Cantiable) to bring VSTs out to the Fractal, and Bring my hardware into VST FX. I picked up D16s Spacerec (physical space reverb) and Repeater (digital delay) , Liquid Sonics 7th Heaven reverb ( i haev a few free ones - Blue cats phaser, flanger, chorus - valhalla supermassive obviously) then for VSTs, Diva (getting older but a playground of subtractive synthesis), the Grandeur for Pianos (to supplement my RD2000s V-Piano sounds) and This....... I had intended on OBxD 3.0 (as I have - or rather had 2.0) but thats not a pay for not free, and this was practically the same price. First impressions - comparing my my OB6 particularly - its great..... and has similar differences that the OBx8 had when I spend a day comparing those two... Sure Its only got the single LP filter - not the 24 , or notch (which I love on the OB6) BUT..... It might have saved me swapping my OB6 for the OBx8 and faffing with off board FX. I also picked Equator 2 to expand the sonic possibilities of my Osmose.. but thats another story ;)

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

That sounds like a great set up! and I agree, this VST sounds so incredibly good it can really sit in the mix like an OB. Also, very cool you got Equator2, my next video coming later this week is all about Equator2 - its my new love! Easily my fave VST I've discovered this year, so make sure you watch that vid!

[@raymond_lazer]

Thanx for the video ! This sounds good but very very far away in terms of analog sound realism when compared with the OP-X Pro III 😉

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

need to try that one!

[@raymond_lazer]

Bewaaaare of the dark side .... 😉

[@mickricksbsc]

Why does every patch sound like the lfo is enabled?

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

my guess is what you are hearing is the vintage knob causing the frequencies to beat in and out of tune?

[@bigjayrillah3508]

I bought this and its the first VST I was able to get lost in the sound like my prophet 10

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

amazing! how do you like your P10? it really is the only synth I truly GAS over at this point.

[@bigjayrillah3508]

@@MilesAwayOfficial I Love it :)

[@watchaddicts1213]

So, is the OB-X a compliment to and a must have given that YOU (and I) already own OB-E (and presumably, GForce’s SEM) ?? Thanks

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Honestly they sound pretty similar! But the UI and capability is very different. OB-E is deeper cause of being able to change each voice's parameters, but OB-X is much more immediate. SEM is kind of irrelevant in my humble opinion now, since OB-X can be run as a mono synth.

[@rhythmace1]

​@@MilesAwayOfficialSurely SEM was always kind of irrelevant when you could zoom in on and solo a single module of OB-E? I never understood why you'd pay extra for that if you already had OB-E.

[@qtintervalmusic]

GForce synths are so musical, seems like they have far fewer unusable presets than other plugin designers

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Agreed! Jerome and the others are great sound designers.

[@rhythmace1]

If you don't already have impOSCar2, they're giving it away free with this month's Computer Music magazine. I've been waiting for a discount and set up a Google Alert, didn't expect to get it for as little as £7.50 though 😄

[@blueeyedsoulman]

The problem now is everybody and their mama has an Oberheim. Kinda overkill.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

everyone has had access to the sounds of a fender strat for ages, yet its about what you do with em :)

[@blueeyedsoulman]

@@MilesAwayOfficial Wise words.

[@johnsuggs7828]

Over Kill? Bite your tongue mister

[@blueeyedsoulman]

@@johnsuggs7828 I liked it when I had one of 800 built.

[@johnsuggs7828]

@@blueeyedsoulman If you're buying and using it for the purpose of creating, then what do you care that someone else has it. A lot of artist had this. The actual physical unit. None of them ended up like the list of legendary artist in the video. It's not the instrument, but the player

[@ForwardREF]

sounds good, but the video at the beginning with Vintage Synth VST is kind of muddy and unclear 1080p, 4k.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

you just might not like the sound of those particular patches, that's ok! the demo song was mastered, but as you can see not many plugins on the individual synth patches. I tried to keep them as authentic to what you get as possible, then bounced in lossless.

[@ForwardREF]

@@MilesAwayOfficial It seems you didn't understand me. I wrote about the music that it’s very good. Next, I wrote about the video and the fact that it is out of focus, blurry, watching the video (screen capture) is very unpleasant for the eyes.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

@@ForwardREFweird - maybe it wasn’t done processing, it’s 4K now!

[@ForwardREF]

It got a little better in 4k, but still not enough. Apparently your desktop recording bitrate was not sufficient. Since your webcam insertion is all very sharp.@@MilesAwayOfficial

[@radaget3459]

Great video. Do the presets include the original hardware presets so that it's possible to compare?

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Thanks so much for listening!

[@skyko]

Dude hit you with a stock, auto-responder... Bad taste IMHO. 🤨👎

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

not a stock reply, but I won't be doing a patch to patch shoot out, sorry!@@skyko

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

EDIT: missed your second part of your comment, there might be some original presets coming soon but unfortunately my channel won't be doing a comparison

[@skyko]

@@MilesAwayOfficial 😉

[@gossipboynyc9625-VN]

It is emotive

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Agreed!

[@Magnus_Loov]

I think the title of "The most realistic vintage Synth VST" goes to either Softube or Synapse. Probably Softtubes 106 emulation is about as perfect as it can get.

[@sigurdthomassen4764]

Yes! But the noise is messing up the track if u use 3-4 of them in a song and starts to compress a bit

[@partlysimpson5154]

Have anyone used Synapse Obsession, how does it compare?

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Would love to know as well, I have not!

[@jeffevansmusic]

What I do know is the GForce emulations have this really beautiful deep analog sound to them. I have owned quite a few Oberheim's in my day and I am very familiar. The GForce feels very real and close to me anyway.

[@jno8039]

Both sound fantastique. Obiously Obession sound more thick with the curtis filter and even more in 24db.

[@RabbitintheMoon]

mega

[@tommygustafsson7072]

7:08 not beautiful, just out of tune.

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

You'd be surprised at how much character having stuff slightly out of tune adds to compositions :)

[@mattdelany6799]

Sounds nothing like an obx. I have an obx, and an obxa. Sounds like 149 dollars. Mine sounds like 14,000 dollars.

[@JayTheLane]

This vst sounds great regardless😊

[@Meepup]

I don’t think anyone really thought it was gonna sound 1 to 1, but it has its own unique sound. And at the end of the day people care more about the song itself, than the gear it was made with imo.

[@mattdelany6799]

But you are basically saying, it sounds as good as an obx. Just buy what you can afford, and stop coping.

[@Meepup]

@@mattdelany6799 it’s not cope lmao different doesn’t mean bad it means it’s different

[@mattdelany6799]

@@Meepup when it literally says obx in the title, that's the comparison.

[@cristianbatelli5873]

ok, not the real fat thing

[@user-vm1hh2lp1b]

Just sounds like any digital virtual analog? I’m not hearing anything amazing, any virtual analog can sound like this… nothing new

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

What is your fave synth VST?

[@andymakii7344]

I don’t want to debate lord this, seriously. I promise. But, if it were the case that all of these virtual analogs can sound the same, you are implying that every scientist and beta tester is operating on fraud or delusion. Further, what you are really saying is that thousands of people are all wrong and you are correct. Often times, the probability of that much coincidental error is next to nil. The odds of a single individual being wrong, especially when thousands think differently, is an almost total certainty. But, I love being right when the odds are down, so I’m going to agree with you. They are indeed all equally capable of emulating any sound and sonically uninteresting.

[@user-vm1hh2lp1b]

@@andymakii7344 I wasn’t trying to bad mouth the software, just saying that all these “analog emulation” vsts sound pretty much the same to me, there’s nothing about one or the other that sounds “miles better”. If you don’t read the “fancy specs” in the VST’s description and you just listen to its sounds, you’ll probably not be as impressed. But if you read what the developers say then it’s easy to fall victim of the “power of suggestion” which is where someone tells you how superior something sounds, and you believe it and start hearing it too, just because someone said it (not because it actually sounds good) And with social media nowadays - one KZbinr says “wow this VST sounds so good so analog so realistic” and boom all their followers mindlessly believe it and start preaching the same thing on forums and stuff and then the people that read those forums start preaching the same aswell and there you go, now everybody is saying the same thing - because one KZbinr started it :D Again, I’m not bashing the software, just saying how there’s nothing amazing about it. Saying things like “wow this sounds so analog” - like, it doesn’t sound anymore analog than any other virtual-analog VST, they’re pretty much all the same and sound the same. There might be about a 5% difference between them

[@user-vm1hh2lp1b]

@@MilesAwayOfficial I don’t use VSTis to emulate analog, so my favourite VSTs are samplers like Kontakt (probably my go to for anything as I have a huge library of samples) and I like the emulations of 90s romplers (Korg, Roland) and I have 1 effects bundle (fab filter) that do everything I ever needed

[@Sashabooboo]

A Capricorn played a joke on a Libra and read the horoscope for Taurus to the Libra. The Libra thought, "Hmmm, that sure does sound like me." Folks, VST's are like astrology. Just like you can't convince people astrology isn't real, you probably can't convince a VST person that they are playing a picture on a screen🤣🤣🤣🤣