REVIEW GFORCE SOFTWARE OBERHEIM OB-E: Virtual Synth Tom Oberheim Endorses

While working on my review of the new Behringer 2-XM synthesizer (a hardware clone of Oberheim’s SEM) I found a video of Tom Oberheim discussing this GForce software synthesizer. After hearing Tom speak so highly about this software version I had to have it and as it turned out, the software was ON SALE so that made the purchase even easier. Is it one of the most fun and best software synths ever?

REVIEW GFORCE OFFICIAL OBERHEIM OB-X SOFTWARE SYNTHESIZER

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Another software synthesizer from GForce has landed, it's the officially endorsed Oberheim OB-X. It runs native on Apple Silicon Mac and it requires MacOS 10.13. For full compatibility details see gforcesoftware.com.

The most important question has finally been answered, how does it sound?

REVIEW GFORCE SOFTWARE GOES APPLE NATIVE, ODDITY AND MTRON UPDATES

TWO OF MY FAVORITES BY GFORCE SOFTWARE RECEIVE GREAT UPDATES

GForce software in the UK has a long history of producing software versions of hardware instruments. 

Their popular and beautiful sounding Mellotron-style instrument is updated to the M-Tron Pro IV, with lots of useful new features and sounds, plus it is now native for Apple processors.

MTron Pro IV

The Oddity 3 is the updated Apple processor version of the GForce emulation of the vintage ARP Odyssey analog synthesizer. Everything about this synth sounds great, new inbuilt effects, new preset browsing and some of the best sounding filters I've ever heard, including hardware and software. 

Oddity 3 from GForce Software

My only complaint about GForce instruments is that they can be extremely processor intensive. How did they perform on the new 20-core Mac Studio?