Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Oberheim OB-X is an analog polyphonic sound synthesizer. First commercially available in June 1979, it was introduced to compete with the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which had been successfully introduced the year before. About 800 units were produced with moderate success before the OB-X was discontinued in 1981, replaced by the updated and streamlined OB-Xa. The OB line developed and evolved after that with the OB-8 before being replaced by the Matrix series.The OB-X would be used in popular music by Rush (on Moving Pictures and Signals), Nena, Queen (their first synthesizer on an album), Prince, a keen user, and Jean Michel Jarre who used it for its massive "brass" sounds.. }
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- Oberheim_OB-X abstract "The Oberheim OB-X is an analog polyphonic sound synthesizer. First commercially available in June 1979, it was introduced to compete with the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which had been successfully introduced the year before. About 800 units were produced with moderate success before the OB-X was discontinued in 1981, replaced by the updated and streamlined OB-Xa. The OB line developed and evolved after that with the OB-8 before being replaced by the Matrix series.The OB-X would be used in popular music by Rush (on Moving Pictures and Signals), Nena, Queen (their first synthesizer on an album), Prince, a keen user, and Jean Michel Jarre who used it for its massive "brass" sounds.".