{"id":24952,"date":"2025-01-26T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2025-03-02T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:33:57","slug":"oberheim-sem-sub-oscillator-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24952","title":{"rendered":"Oberheim SEM SUB-oscillator Mod."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this SEM SUB-oscillator floating around the internets and had to give it a go. 5 stars would go again. Available here from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Lackan110f\">\u202a@Lackan110f\u202c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa1I3RkJZYk8xQ1N4V0M5eTh1d2lKZUlfMjVBUXxBQ3Jtc0ttTWtGdXc5emx0NnkxQlNhSzVCZGZxSV83SXFWRVp3VU91Q25ISmZqemhGT3ZwX2ZoekpOcmx2dG9nbXBkbFIzZXI0UDVzTi1XblJRWlQ3dDM2TUZmTW1oUjVwUlhZMGlVQ0FwdXNGNmwxS3N2SDVkZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Freverb.com%2Fshop%2Fpeters-gear-garage-364&amp;v=X6Fg9yTmqd8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reverb.com\/shop\/peters-gear-g&#8230;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X6Fg9yTmqd8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this SEM SUB-oscillator floating around the internets and had to give it a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24952\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oberheim SEM SUB-oscillator Mod.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/oberheim-sem-sub-oscillator-mod.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24369,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24369","url_meta":{"origin":24952,"position":0},"title":"Moog Voyager \/ Minimonsta comparison","author":"Eric","date":"May 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Out of nothing more then curiosity I wanted to know the fundamental differences between the Moog Voyager & Minimonsta. The filter is obvious so I didn't even want to have that in the equation. I wanted to look at the raw building blocks, the oscillator waveforms. 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This is a little 1 pass real-time record testing the repair. The SEM might just have the best sounding oscillators in history. FYI Noise is from the rhythm king being squashed to all hell via a 1176.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Analysis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Analysis","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/artworks-000042133302-dl3vj0-t500x500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24517,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24517","url_meta":{"origin":24952,"position":4},"title":"SEM \/ Drum n\u00e4n\u02ccsens","author":"Eric","date":"June 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Drum \/ Synth improvisation wankery. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gcY4d_aOSUk Tools used: Oberheim SEM controlled via VC\/Clockworks DS-1 Gretsch Jaspers 13\"\u00a0Kepplinger snare","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Video","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=180"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sem-drum-nansens.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sem-drum-nansens.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sem-drum-nansens.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sem-drum-nansens.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sem-drum-nansens.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24656,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24656","url_meta":{"origin":24952,"position":5},"title":"SEM &#8216;n Dist","author":"Eric","date":"February 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Some evening distorted synth sound design\/self-prescribed Sonic therapy. The SEM is hands-down one of my favorite analog voices, paired with the DS-1 is pure screaming fun. I've been meaning to spend some more time with the carbon sequencer, so I did. 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