Oberheim Prommer

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Prommer
Oberheim Prommer.jpg
Manufacturer Oberheim
Dates1983–1985 [1]
Price£949 [2] GBP
Technical specifications
Polyphony 16 notes
Timbrality 1 part
Synthesis typeDigital
Attenuator Attack, Decay
Input/output
External control MIDI In, out

The Oberheim Prommer is a monophonic sampler capable of programming EPROM chips for use in Oberheim DMX, Linn, Simmons, and Sequential drum machines, allowing you to use your own samples in these devices. The device can be triggered by MIDI, or via Oberheim's pre-MIDI parallel bus. [3]

Contents

Features

The Prommer uses the 8-bit COMDAC format and features 64k of RAM. the maximum sampling rate is 32 kHz. [4]

Editing of samples

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References

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