Thomas Elroy Oberheim, known as Tom Oberheim, is an American audio engineer and electronics engineer best known for designing effects processors, analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. He has been the founder of four audio electronics companies, most notably Oberheim Electronics. He was also a key figure in the development and adoption of the MIDI standard. He is also a trained physicist.
Tom Oberheim at the NAMM Show, 2022
Tom Oberheim at his workbench, 2010
SEM (1974)
4-Voice (1975)
A music sequencer is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
1980s typical software sequencer platform, using Atari Mega ST computer
User interface on Steinberg Cubase 6, a digital audio workstation with an integrated software sequencer
An analog sequencer
A step rhythm sequencer on the drum machine