Crumar Bit 99

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The Bit 99 is one of the first synthesizers from which traditional knobs and sliders have been banned. The edit method is easy to understand. The Bit 99 can produce a wide variety of sounds but bass sounds are the best. With a polyphony of three notes, instead of six normally, you can have two sounds layered! Possibilities are almost unlimited and if the 99 patches are not enough you can save the data to tape and load it when you want! This synth was used by 808 State but the synth sounds a lot like Orbital's "In-sides" album. A rackmount version was also released, called the Bit-01.

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Crumar Bit99 Demo
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DrSqu
Audio Clip 1 Here's a simple demo pattern from the Breakthru web site.
ManualThis copy of the original manual is in the Adobe PDF format.

Specifications

Polyphony - 6 voices
Oscillators - 2 DCOs per voice
LFO - 2 LFOs assignable to VCA, VCF, DCO1, DCO2
Filter - VCF: cutoff, resonance, tracking, invert (inverts VCF values), ADSR
VCA - ADSR
Keyboard - 61 full size keys, slightly weighted
Memory - 99 patches (75 single programs and from 76 to 99 for "split" or "double" modes)
Control - MIDI
Date Produced - 1985 - 86

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Additional information provided by Telmo J. Portela.