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Details:"Only about 100 of these made which makes this a very rare find. This keyboard have been compared to the top analog keyboards on the market. The Crumar Spirit was originally designed by Bob Moog (himself), Jim Scott & Tom Rhea and released back in 1983. It is a full featured analog monophonic synthesizer with 2 VCO's so it's got a pretty fat tone, but not as much as the classic 3-VCO Minimoog. However it is considerably more flexible than the latter. It has a basic 37-note keyboard without velocity or aftertouch. The two oscillators feature basic sawtooth, triangle and square waves and can be synced together. The filter section is very nice featuring low-, high- and band-pass filters and switchable 12dB or 24dB slopes. Other features of the filter include an independent envelope with inverted and normal ADSR, key tracking and single or multiple triggering of the filter. Some other features of the Spirit include a built-in ring-modulator, an Arpeggiator with 3 different patterns and that can be linked to the LFO, and there's an external audio input for running external sounds through its filters, LFOs or Ring Mod. For the hands-on approach, the Spirit is sure to please. There are 24 knobs, 10 switches and 15 sliders to start. There are 3 performance wheels for controlling the Pitch, Mod-X and Shaper-Y modulation effects (see LFO specs below). Using those with the Arpeggiator can get pretty wild. The Arpeggiator features 3 modes: Ripple (Up/Down), Arpeggio (Up several octaves) and Leap (Goes up 1 and then 4 octaves). There are also Auto and preset Glide modes for getting some elasticity or bending effects. Since all the LFOs, envelopes and filters are quite flexible you are sure to get some weird noises, fat basses, synths, etc. with the Spirit."
on nearly all interesting synths on the bay, either a "bidder 2" or a "bidder 4" bids. I find that quite disturbing.
ReplyDeleteyeah, they switched up the bidding system, everything is anonymous now or something...I got an "alert" about it a while back when they implemented it...I think it's just to stop scammers from sending bogus second-chance offers to the losers. anyways, yeah, ominous sounding though.
ReplyDeleteI think there were about 300 made.
ReplyDeleteI hate that new bidding system. It's supposed to be 'safer', but the real fact is that it makes it easier for someone to conceal shill bids and other ratbastardy eBay tricks. If you can't tell who 'bidder X' is, you can't see if that same 'bidder X' is appearing on other auctions by the same person, etc. It's a just plain stupid decision by the moneygrubbers that run eBay. More proof that they don't care, just as long as they get their cut.
ReplyDeleteeBay is also now blocking www.toolhaus.org, which is a website that made it easy for you to check out an eBay member's bidding history.
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