As promised, I have scanned and uploaded the Oberheim OB-Xa "Programmed Patches" book to my website at this address:
http://www.electron gate.com/ obfiles/OB- Xa/patchbook. html
Enjoy, and let me know if you find any broken links or mistakes.
Thanks,
Paul White
At 10:49 PM 5/30/09, you wrote:
i appreciate your help. you know that's a lot of work for you to scan all that. don't you want me to just buy a copy of the patch book from you, at least to compensate you for your time
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Sat, 5/30/09, Paul J. White
<pjwhite@electrongat e.com>
wrote:
- From: Paul J. White <pjwhite@electrongat e.com>
- Subject: Re: [oberheim] obxa factory presets--do I have dead memory patches
- To: oberheim@yahoogroup s.com
- Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 5:57 PM
- At 04:39 PM 5/30/09, you wrote:
- >Hello: at the cost of a small fortune, I've just successfully
- >restored an OBX-A that was left for scrap. My repair (surprisingly)
- >had a backup tape of the presets from another obxa that had come
- >through his shop. Listening to the presents that loaded in and
- >comparing them to the preset chart in the owner's manual shows that
- >most of these are the factory presets (there may be a couple of the
- >other owern's patches thrown in). Here's my issue. for patch A3 and
- >the last two groups (CD and ACD) if I push the patch combinations,
- >different lights light up, indicating to me that the patch is
- >actually loaded and the synth has turned on the various parameters
- >that make up that particular patch, e.g, saw versus other waves,
- >unison or not, s/h or not, etc.--but NO SOUND comes out. What does
- >this indicate
There is something wrong with the memory patch of the
- >synth for those patches
Something else
Thanks in advance for any
- >suggestions.
- I can think of a couple of possibilities:
- 1. Bad patch tape. Try programming patch A3 manually (see patch
- sheet here
http://www.electron gate.com/ obfiles/OB- Xa_patch_ A3.jpg
)
- and see if it works OK.
- 2. Bad or missing RAM chip. Try storing a working patch in the CD
- and ACD banks and see if they stick.
- Good luck.
- -- Paul White