Far from being a cut‑down version of one of its bigger siblings, the TEO‑5 is a brand new Oberheim synth with a personality of its own. Back in the not so dim and distant past, the engineers at Sequential took one of the company’s synthesizers — the Prophet 6, to be precise — and whipped out all of its voice boards. But, realising that a mute synth is only slightly better than a deaf sound engineer, they then inserted a bunch of different voice boards based upon Oberheim’s legendary SEM module, made a few other changes, and revealed a new instrument that they called the Oberheim OB‑6. I reviewed this in 2016, and was impressed. I had liked the Prophet 6, but I liked this more.