Tom Oberheim turned 90 last week. The brains behind the OB-X, OB-Xa and OB-8 built the instruments that defined the sound of 1980s music, lost the rights to his own name, spent a decade writing traffic light software in Silicon Valley, and fought his way back to making synths. He still has a secret project …
The man behind Oberheim’s greatest synths is 90 and still building in his lab