The Crumar Bit One, introduced in 1984, is a six-voice programmable touch-sensitive synthesizer that represents a compelling entry in the mid-1980s affordable polyphonic synthesizer market. As a hybrid digital/analog instrument, it combines digitally...
The Crumar Bit 99, released in late 1985 (approximately three months after the Bit 01 expander), represented the keyboard incarnation of the improved Bit 01 technology and served as the ultimate expression of Crumar's Bit synthesizer concept. At a reduced...
The Crumar Bit 01, released in early 1985, was not simply a repackaged Bit One keyboard in module form, but rather a significantly "souped-up" expander version that addressed many of the original Bit One's limitations. Designed by Mario Maggi (creator of...
The Roland Alpha Juno series, introduced in 1985, includes two analog polyphonic synthesizers: Alpha Juno 1 and 2. Produced until 1987, they were priced at US$895/ UK£575 for the Alpha JunoJ-1 and US$1,295/ UK£799 for the Alpha Juno-2. They share the...
The successor of Matrix series, however, has a feature that strongly distinguishes Matrix-6 from its predecessors: the synthesizer's voices use digitally controlled oscillators (DCO). To build the voices Oberhiem used a specialized chip CEM3396 which...
