via this auction"crumar Bit one with the SSM2044 vcf's. I compared the two (other version more common has CEM3328 vcf's) with the same patches loaded and on most sounds it's fairly hard to tell much difference. But I think overall these are a little more punchy and the others maybe more excelling on ethereal kinds of sounds. Or maybe it's the way the controls are tweaked :-). Hard to tell since I can't find tune up procedure. You just kind of adjust these to sound the way you like. I found some solder issues and a couple bad resistors in this one and got it working swell again.
I really like the Bit One but I feel like a selfish pig keeping both of them..and I have a lot of machines with SSM2044 filters but none with CEM3328 so I decided to keep the more common version and maybe some collector will appreciate having number 27 I believe it is? See photo... Anyway to me these are the most oberheim sounding of the digital controlled oscillator analogs. The dynamic lfo rate control is kind of a cool feature too. The layering is weird, the MIDI early and crude. BEWARE..when you boot keep your fingers off keys for 6 seconds or so. It goes through a calibration thing and if you touch stuff you will think it's broken :-) Kind of quirky in that way. ALso if you plug in a midi cable it defeats the output til you reboot on mine. Different. But anyway it's an awesome dual oscillator/voice 6 voice analog. Like the Chroma Polaris the keyboard sounds are pretty excellent I think."
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