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Obelisk
Modern Presets for Arturia OB-Xa V
Obelisk is a collection of 100 original, modern sounds for the Arturia OB-Xa V softsynth. The collection focus on contemporary sounds with advanced modulation and heavy use of creative effects and includes lo-fi keys, ambient & evolving pads, creative arpeggiators, and sunset-drenched modern synthwave patches.
The sounds are inspired by the artists I usually cover in my Synth Sounds series of articles, but not directly remade from any particular tracks. The Obelisk presets work exclusively with Arturia OB-Xa V and Analog Lab V. OB-Xa V is Arturia’s take on the legendary Oberheim OB-Xa synth, a powerhouse polysynth from 1981 that competed with the Sequential Prophet-5.
The Obelisk presets make use of OB-Xa’s flexible modulation routing that allows for up to 6 LFOs to create sounds that move and evolve and it’s high-quality detailed effects to create production-ready sounds straight out of the box. Obelisk doesn’t include any ‘classic’ OB-Xa sounds – they’re covered in my Legends pack which is also for Arturia OB-Xa V. To get an idea of the sounds in Obelisk, check out the demos below.
Obelisk Preset Demos
All sounds other than drums are Obelisk presets.
- Brinstar 00:00
- Tokyo 00:00
- Distant Fields 00:00
- Deep Within 00:00
- Future Sight 00:00
Full Patchlist
- Abyss Lead
- Architectural
- Astro Turbo
- Azure
- Bay Ridge
- Brinstar
- Broadcast
- Bulletin
- Capacitor
- Cerebrum
- Changing Lead
- Chasin’
- Chasm
- Choir Acapella
- Chopped Wurlitzer
- City Lights
- Companion
- Concourse
- Cosmogram
- Cosmonaut
- Deathmatch
- Deep Within
- Distance Between
- Distant Fields
- Doorways
- Dotted Plucks
- Dreamer
- Eighty Five
- Elysian Fields
- Endymion
- EP-Trem
- Eurycyda
- Exodus
- Experiments
- Far Apart
- Fat Synthwave Bass
- Figure Eights
- Future Sight
- Grand Strings
- Half Speed
- Harpists Pool
- Hidden Chamber
- Histogram
- Hypnos
- In Between
- Lake Melody
- Landscape
- Limitations
- Macrocosm
- Magical Keys
- Maridia
- Materials
- Maus Plucks
- Molten Rain
- Monsters
- Moonlight
- Nebulae
- Neon Skies
- Obelisk
- Oberheim Organ
- Oculum
- Onwards and Upwards
- Oscillations
- Over the Clouds
- Patterns
- Quadrangle
- Razorback
- Reflections
- Retro Rez
- Rhodes Airy
- Rhodes Moon
- Ruins of SF
- Sailing
- Sci-fi Blues
- Science of Time
- Seasonal
- Shimmer Pad
- Shooting Star
- Soft Horn Stabs
- Soft Illusion
- Stardust
- Subway
- Summit
- Sync Lead
- System 5000
- Tau Ceti
- Termina Rhythm
- Those Memories
- Tokyo
- Tone Bank
- Tracework
- Triplet Bassline
- Tyme Wares
- Undertones
- Untorn Ballad
- Wasteland
- Weird Science
- Wurli Slow Trem
- Wurlitzer-Xa
- Zenology
Requirements
Obelisk presets you will need to have a copy of either Arturia OB-Xa V or Arturia Analog Lab V.The OB-Xa V bank requires version 1.1.0 or higher. The Analog Lab V bank requires version version 5.0.0 or higher. Both banks feature identical presets.
The plugin synths OB-Xa V and Analog Lab are not included in the Obelisk download. They are available from either the Arturia website or Splice's Rent-to-Own plans.
Obelisk
Artwork by Andreia Calhau