Vintage Synth Explorer

Crumar • Bit One

The Bit One is a 6 voice programmable polyphonic analog synthesizer with digital control that rivals the Roland Juno-106 synthesizer. The 61-note keyboard is equipped with velocity which is a rare option among similar synths! The 2 computer controlled oscillators, 6 VCF filters, 6 VCAs and 2 LFOs each per voice, easy hands-on editing and a double/split mode keyboard make this one phatt analog polysynth! A few let-down features of the Bit One stand in the way of an otherwise great synth. The MIDI implementation is useable but poor and there are only 63 memory patches. The Bit One has been used by 808 State and Cirrus.

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mrfrisky330

Posted 68 days ago

Got one recently, the standard sounds are quite poor UNTIL you press the 'double' button then things dramatically improve press 'unison' and a serious quality emerges, shame the tape interface is appaling :(

Has a warm almost analogue sound, far warmer than my DX7!

Achilleas

Posted 71 days ago

The warmest of the Bit synths, but watch for reliability with it . Later ones have other features, also good.

jer60

Posted 320 days ago

totally disagree with the first comment - the bit one sounds great , particularly the early SSM ones. bear in mind that this synth at excels at *soft* sounds and pads and not cutting leads , and you'll love it. It can sound quite synthex-y at times, and it's part of the same heritage. On the down side it can be unreliable and not that easy to program, but still a very nice-sounding little thing.

Nick Esposito

Posted 337 days ago

I heard from somewhere that Bit was actually its own comany. Were they really owned by Crumar?

VCO

Posted 454 days ago

Pros: keyboard velocity, unison effect
Cons: everything else. Sound, keyboard, size, quality, functions, physical layout (who the hell placed the pitch and mod wheels there??!) and it takes a long time to make anything useful with it since it doesn't even have a data entry potentiometer. You find yourself clicking buttons for 15 minutes and playing for 1

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