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Tom Oberheim
American instrument designer, founder of Oberheim Electronics.
Tom Oberheim (b. 1936) founded Oberheim Electronics in Santa Monica in 1969, building effects pedals and digital sequencers before the 1974 Synthesizer Expander Module (SEM) — designed with Dave Rossum — became the company’s first synthesizer voice and the basis for its later polyphonic instruments.
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Tom Oberheim, Dave Rossum, Oberheim Electronics INSTRUMENT
Oberheim's 1974 Synthesizer Expander Module, its first synthesizer voice.
INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGY