Behringer UB-Xa pt 2: Playing the 16-voice analog synth for the 1st time, no talk

Behringer UB-Xa pt 2: Playing the 16-voice analog synth for the 1st time. Is this the best price/value of any analog synth with 16-voice polyphony? Listen to the sound demo and tell me what you think!

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This very nice looking synth finally arrived last week! I've been on the fence, should I get this or not, since I have a Prophet 08 and a Pro-800 already. However, 16-voice polyphony and a poly aftertouch keybed were the 2 things that pushed my to order it. I've never had a poly aftertouch synthesizer before and sometimes I also felt that my two other 8-voice analog polys could to with some extra voices. And since the original Oberheims are both expensive to buy - and expensive to service - this looks really tempting on paper. Is it as good in real life? We are here to find out.

What do you think? Please comment and of course, like and subscribe :-)
A few of this first session videos coming up.

Disclaimer: I've never played an original Oberheim, so I can't really compare. I'll play this synth for what it is, based on its own merits. I add some reverb from the mixer and use a Zoom pedal to add some hall reverb, analogish delay and sometimes some phaser to the sounds. And for the synth nerds: this is firmware version 1 (0.003.058) and only after the 1st session did I update to version 2 (0.003.117) which features even better OBXa sound apparently...

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