The Oberheim SEM V from Arturia is a faithful recreation of Oberheim's legendary SEM (Synthesizer Expander Module) that is coveted for its "fatness" and unique harmonic spectrum. Utilizing the company's TAE (True Analog Emulation) technology, all of the original features have been reproduced, while several additional features not found on the original have been added.
All the original parameters of the Oberheim SEM
Two oscillators, each offering a sawtooth wave and variable-width pulse wave with PWM, sine wave LFO, 12 dB/octave multi-mode low-, high-, band-pass, and notch filters, and two ADS envelope generators
Added functionalities include a new LFO, noise, sub oscillator, on-board effects (overdrive, chorus and delay), arpeggiator, and portamento
Polyphony up to 32 voices and 8 voice multitimbral
8-Voice Programmer module
Advanced Keyboard Follow module
Modulation Matrix module
Compatible with iSEM Preset export/import
Polyphony parameter to limit the polyphony of the plug-in
"Forward Retrigg" mode for the 8-Voice Programmer for easy use of sequences with the arpeggiator
"Reassign" mode for the 8-Voice Programmer (as in the original, the SEM V will first use the boards that are not gated in its voice assignment)
Factory presets from Ian Boddy, Erik Norlander, Richard Courtel, Kevin Lamb, and Drew Newmann
Sustain pedal active on all systems
Redesigned preset browser and resizable GUI