'Dance Arp' the initial integral version of 'We are the fire' with Crumar Bit99 synth from the '80

video upload by Davide Micheli

With vocals further below.

"'Dance ARP' is a music song composed in 2024 by Davide Micheli. Some parts were extracted from it and later used to compose the song 'We are the Fire', released in July 2026 with the Sir Donkey band made by me and my friend Piero Pirani.

The song uses mainly vintage Italian electronic synthesizers from the 1980s

The track was strictly recorded with an analog mixer, similar to what was done in the 1980s, except for the digital conversion of the audio using a 24-bit audio interface and Cubase at 96 kHz.

In particular:
--A1985 Crumar Bit99 synthesizer was used for the Bass, Arpeggio, and Pad parts;
--An Elka Rapsody 610 and an Elka Twin 61 synthesizer from the 1980s were used for the string machine parts;
--A Crumar Multiman S from the 1980s were used for the string machine parts;
--A Elka Rapsody 610 synthesizer from the 1980s were adopted for the vintage '80 piano;
--A CRB Diamond 910 Gold vintage electronic organ of '80 was adopted for organ part on the initial part of music track
--A Korg Prologue was used for the synthetic sound effects.
--A Akai S5000 sampler for some for the strings in a central section of the song.

Finally, for the rhythm section, a Behringer RD-9 Drum Machine with a phaser and stereo modulation effects on some parts was used and you can hear drom going from left to right stereo channel. Hope you enjoy the music."

With vocals:

We are the fire (Sir Donkey band by Davide Micheli and Piero Pirani) recorded in Ankon Record studio

video upload by Davide Micheli Piero Pirani Sir Donkey

"This piece was conceived, composed, and then produced using almost exclusively vintage Italian electronic synthesizers from the 1980s at the private recording studio Ankon Records.

We appositely decided to make use of vintage Italian brand synthesizer to reproduce the music dance atmosphere, sonority and resonances of the Italo Disco dance of '80 era.

We are the fire is a dance music brand that harks back to 1980s music revisited with a contemporary twist. The song features my friend Piero Pirani and I who are the components of Sir Donkey band. A friend of ours, singer Maruzio, sang some parts in falsetto on some of the chorus parts.

The choruses and vocals sometimes have slight imperfections that we deliberately left on the recording without correcting."

CRB elettronica 910M - Ultra Rare Vintage Analog All-In-One Synth/Drum machine (SERVICED) 1978

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via this Reverb listing

Demo video previously posted here.

"This is an incredible All-In-One Machine which incorporates:

- a Computerband2000, an ultra rare fully analog Groovebox with drum machine (the same of Crb computer drums) Bass and a Arpeggiator with patterns variations, modulations and filters control)

- a PolySynth

- Strings from CRB Vocostrings

- Piano section

- a full Organ section

- a full analog FX section with Built in Spring Reverb, Chorus,Vibrato,Rotary and Phaser!

A huge sonic monster (only around 25 units were made)"

Interesting pics on the bottom of the case!

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CRB Elettronica 910M - Vintage Analog Synth/Drum Machine (1978) HD

video upload by Alberto Napolioni

"Ultra Rare monster Synthesizer/Organ/String/Drum machine ALL-IN-ONE made by CRB Elettronica (Italia) in late 70' which incorporates the amazing Computerband2000, a Poly section, a String section from Vocostring, a Organ, Piano and built in FX like Spring Reverb, Chorus, Rotary and Phaser.
The definitive CRB machine!

FREE IMPROVISATIONS

00:00 Stellar Nucleosynthesis
00:15 Laser Trance Scissors (transistors)
00:27 Computerband2000
01:03 Acido Minuetto
01:14 CTRL+ALT+DELETE
01:21 Chanson Triste (Analog Tears)

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24 December 2025

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

Logan Piano Strings Synthesizer, CRB Oberon, Farfisa Polychrome, Elka Drummer One

c.1971 CRB Elettronica Tanzanite (aka. Diamond) Synthesiser Organ

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video upload by riffers

See another model here.

via this Reverb listing

"Serial Nº 21196

Italian-made CRB “Diamond” Cavendish Combo 30 in remarkable condition for its age. Classic combo-organ tones plus a built-in “mini-band” (bass + drums) make it a fun, self-contained writing and performance machine. Built in Ancona under CRB’s Diamond/Cavendish line.

Organ section: Flutes, Clarinets, Reeds, Strings

Presets: Piano, Spinet, Harpsichord

Effects: Sustain and Vibrato (both sound great)

Mini-band (auto-accompaniment)

Drum patterns: Waltz, March, Tango, Bossa Nova, Samba, Slow Rock, Boogie, Disco — all with variable tempo/volume; very much in the vein of early CR-series drum machines.

Bass accompaniment with automatic chords, Free 1-Finger, Memory, and chord quality switching (Major default; Minor/7th via yellow/green buttons).

External output, headphone out
Expression pedal input
Built-in speaker that’s quaint yet surprisingly punchy
UK mains power - we can include a step-up/step-down transformer on request so you can use it in your country without modification, just ask for details."

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Looking At Italian Synthesizers You Have NEVER Heard Of - Some only one in existence.

video upload by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Follow-up to this post.

"This week We were lucky enough to spend the whole week at ‪@museodelsynthmarchigiano1717‬ Lots of videos and things to come! ‪@Hainbach‬ behind the camera!
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i have a video on the Crumar spirit already up on patreon here :-
/ look-at-crumar-133890428
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if you haven't seen the link at the top to the museums youtube channel here is the website :-
https://www.museodelsynth.org/"

Also see A visit to the Marche Synth Museum

Check out the labels below for additional posts.

CRB Elettronica Oberon

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via this Vemia listing

Click the auction link on top when you get there for additional listings.

CRB Elettronica OBERON ..Ladies and collectors: this is an unique opportunity to get in your hands this beautiful exemplar in incredibly clean conditions and special FIRST model produced with blank 'zero' serial of the 3 or 4 existing, this is awesome! Perfect working, exceptional deign. Inside is intact, top build quality, each pcb in its slot.. clean, incredibly like new! The five panel lamps are still the originals. Sound is special, awesome vco's and filters, A.M. Synthesis (left side on the bottom panel) is unique and a special feature that offer a sort of additional Harmonic Generators.. It's so incredible that in the late 70s such a high-performance synthesizer was conceived. Working voltage 220 volts, standard european voltage.

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A visit to the Marche Synth Museum

video upload by Guido Scognamiglio

"A visit to the Marche Synth Museum
Museo Del Synth Marchigiano (e Italiano)
July 2023
https://www.museodelsynth.org/"

Some of the synths featured on their site:

Eko Computerrythm
Elka Synthex
CRB Oberon
Crumar Spirit
Farfisa Compact Duo
Welson Symphony
Crumar Compac Synth
CRB Uranus 2
Elka Rhapsody
Farfisa Syntorchestra
Milton Gemichord
Logan String Melody

I also spotted a Welson Syntex recently featured in Hainbach's Blast of Sirens promo video. Solton RSC Polyvox at 1:59.

Vintage Italian synths.

You can find additional posts mentioning Marche Synth Museum here.

WERSI WERSIMATIC II / CRB OBERON

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"This is an analog auto-accompaniment machine produced by the German organ manufacturer Wersi sometime in the mid-70s. Originally part of a big, dual manual organ called Helios, this auto-comp section was probably removed from the organ and squeezed into a faux Teak cabinet - literally crammed with circuit boards - all beautifully snug inside - a very good job by whoever built it.
We used a ton of effects of this track - most noticeably the Davoli 2K disc echo - insanely rare unit with a Schaller disc unit mounted inside - the very mounted inside the Lombardi mixing desks.
The Digitech Synth Wah is also going strong - an envelope follower pedal on the cheap side.

We're pairing the Wersimatic II with the glorious CRB Oberon - a unicorn of a dual oscillator monophonic synth made in Italy in the late 70s - one of very few still existing.
Lots of fun features it can really sound huge - there's still lots more to explore here

The grey string machine in the video is also marked CRB - a simple, two sounds (violin and cello) string machine, unusually light weight for the oldie it is - the CRB 709.
It's sound is bright and lush - really not at all bad.

Vintage Audio Institute Italia is a gear vendor and recording studio in the hills of Florence."

Additional CRB Oberon posts

Additional WERSIMATIC II posts

YAMAHA CS60 / CRB COMPUTER DRUMS

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"In this video we’re show casing our effects a bit further.
Starting off with room effects:
The Binson Echorec 2 is going strong and feedbacking all over the place.
The Roland Space Eco RE-301 as well.
The red box is an odd one, the Davoli 2K Echo : it’s a mega rare, Italian echo housing a German Schaller Magnetic disc Echo - the same used in Lombardi mixers.
It’s similar to the Binson Echorec 2 in structure, fixed speed 4 punch-in, playback heads but it’s a bit more reliable in sound.

On phasers we’re using the Mooger Fooger MF-103 12 stage phaser on the drums, for a bit of crunch as well.
The Mu-tron phasor II on the clavinet style chords.
And lastly another oddball, the Rotor Monster Compact Phasing - most likely a Vermona prototype of their Vermona phaser, with a few added controls - quite obviously an attempt to esthetically copy the Gerd Schulte Compact Phasing - they’re almost the same size (huge) but sound completely different."

YAMAHA CS60 / CRB COMPUTER DRUMS

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Enjoy another ditty made with these two darlings : THE YAMAHA CS60 and the CRB COMPUTER DRUMS."

Yamaha CS60 / CRB Computer Drums

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"45 kilos of heavy duty Japanese build quality - we give you the Yamaha CS60.

We just couldn't pass this one on although it's not typically the machine of our choice it sounds incredible. Put on your headphones and you'll get it.

The range of sounds you get out of this synthesizer seems frankly endless and the general interaction with an important instrument always makes us want to sell all our other machines and just keep this one instead. We have to think about this - meanwhile it's going to a Yamaha CS-series specialised repair man for a new ribbon control and a general calibration since it's never been tuned or serviced in its 45 year old life - also kind of incredible - the build-quality is insane.

On drums we got the elusive CRB Computer Drums - the drum section from the Computer Band 2000."

The links directly above will take you to additional posts featuring each.

INTRODUCING THE CRB COMPUTER DRUMS

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Very obscure rhythm box from 1980 - the CRB Computer Drums is the stand-alone drum machine from the CRB Computer Band 2000. Lovely analog drum sounds - 9 sounds in total - each with its own mute option dip switch.
This makes these machines quite interesting, we would have preferred individual volume sliders instead but there probably wasn't enough free real estate for that.
One rhythm preset at a time - no mixing and matching.

20 rhythm pattern presets rock, mambo - you name it.
An additional 20 pattern variations - selectable to occur either on every 4th or 8th bar.
And last but not least, a Break button with an additional 20 fill-ins.
So this little box actually sports 60 rhythm patterns in total.

Have a look at our other CRB-related videos - they made a small production run of cool gear in the late 70s and early 80s of which few units survive today."

You can find additional drums featuring the CRB COMPUTER DRUMS here.

CRB Voco Strings and CRB Computerband 2000

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"CRB Elettronica was one of many organ manufacturers in the Marche region in Italy in the 1970s.
They did however branch out to produce a very limited number of synthesizers and drum machines for a domestic market where, due to a weak lira and high import taxes, synths manufactured in Japan and America were rare treats.
Speaking of rare - these CRB machines are today incredibly so - having already been manufactured in numbers in the low hundreds - very few survive today.

The CRB Computer Band 2000 is an analog auto-accompaniment unit with a range of chord and arpeggiator sounds.

1. Analog Drum Machine Section with individually mutable sounds
2. Bass section with three sounds and two modes
3. Two separate chord sections with a total of seven sounds, decay and volume controls.
4. And at last the arpeggiator section with four different sounds and decay control.

These sections were originally made for big home-organs, they're incorporated into the CRB 910 organs and a few Solton branded ones as well.

The CRB Voco Strings is an Italian take on the Roland VP-330 - a string and vocoder machine. It has a great sounding string section as a carrier - maybe one of the very sweetest sounding string machines that came out of Italy?
Change my mind in the comment section :)

In this video we're letting the CRB Voco strings process the CRB Computer Band 2000 via the audio input. During the first two compositions, a third player, the Siel Cruise - a lovely Mono / Poly machine, is connected as an external carrier signal instead of the Voco-Strings String Sounds, via the external instrument input in the back.

This video is a compilation of previously released videos on our channel - there are lots more videos of the Computerband 2000 unit as well.

The CRB Computerband unit is currently for sale on Reberb."

See the CRB label below for more.

CRB Computerband 2000

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Introducing the wonderful CRB Computer Band 2000 - a mainly analog auto-accompaniment machine from the the late 70s and early 80s with four sections:

1.Drums with individually mutable sounds and fill-in and variation options
2.Bass section with three sounds, decay controls and two modes
3.Two chord sections with a total of seven sounds, decay and volume controls.
4. And an arpeggiator with four different sounds and decay control.

A great song writing tool when you're stuck and simply a very inspiring instrument, the sounds on these are really cool.

The Computerband 2000 was originally made for big home-organs, they're incorporated into the CRB 910 organs and a few Solton branded ones as well.
These stand-alone units are very rare."

Addtiional CRB Computerband 2000 posts

Vintage Rhythm Boy 480

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via this auction

Brand: CRB
Exact Year: 1971
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy

Moby owned one.

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V.A.I. 80 CRB Voco Strings / CRB Computer Band 2000

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"The CRB Voco Strings is an Italian take on the Roland VP-330 - a string and vocoder machine. It has a great sounding string section as a carrier - maybe one of the sweetest sounding string machines that was made in Italy? Change my mind in the comment section :)

The CRB Computer Band 2000 is an analog auto-accompaniment machine with a range of chord and arpeggiator sounds with decay controls, as well as a bass section and a drum machine with individually mutable sounds.

For phasing we pulled out a Schulte Compact Phasing A - kind of a legendary german (duh) effect that still mystifies us a bit - sometimes it's amazingly swoopy - and sometimes it doesn't really do that much at all, no matter how hard you tweak those dials."

V.A.I. 78 : CRB VOCO STRINGS / CRB COMPUTERBAND 2000 / SIEL CRUISE

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"CRB Elettronica was one of many organ manufacturers in the Marche region in Italy. Starting in the mid 70s they did however branch out to produce a very limited number of synthesizers and drum machines for a domestic market where, due to a weak lira and high import taxes, Japanese or American manufactured synths were rare treats.

The CRB Computer Band 2000 is an analog auto-accompaniment machine with a range of chord and arpeggiator sounds with decay controls, as well as a bass section and a drum machine with individually mutable sounds.

The CRB Voco Strings is an Italian take on the Roland VP-330 - a string and vocoder machine.

In this video we're letting the CRB Voco strings process the CRB Computer Band 2000 via the regular audio input, while a third player, the Siel Cruise, a lovely Mono / Poly machine, is connected as an external carrier signal, via the instrument input."

A Visit the Italian Synth Museum

video upload by Alex Ball

You can find additional posts featuring the museum here.

"Whilst taking a holiday in Italy we stopped off at Museo del Synth Marchigiano for a couple of days and this is the account of what I experienced there.

Enormous thanks to everyone at the museum, particularly Riccardo and Paolo.

https://www.museodelsynth.org/

0:00 Intro
1:19 Synket
4:40 EKO Computerhythm
8:01 Chilton Talentmaker
12:07 Crumar Compac Synth
13:41 Crumar DP-50
15:07 Elkatwin 61
16:29 Elka Synthex
19:38 CRB Oberon
21:29 CRB Voco Strings
22:53 CRB Uranus 2.0
24:34 Farfisa Polychrome
25:24 Logan Piano Strings Synthesizer
27:10 Welson Syntex
28:28 Keytek CTS-2000
29:47 Baleani Solista"

V.A.I. 77 : CRB VOCO STRINGS / CRB COMPUTERBAND 2000 / SIEL CRUISE

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Combining two very rare oddballs - both manufactured by CRB Elettronica in the late 1970s : The CRB Computer Band 2000 and the CRB Voco Strings.

The Computer Band 2000 is an analog auto-accompaniment machine with a range of chord and arpeggiator sounds with decay controls, as well as a bass section and a drum machine with individually mutable sounds.

The Voco Strings is CRBs take on the Roland VP-330 - a string and vocoder machine. Were there any other commercially produced vocoders in Europe apart from this one and the Sennheiser VSM-201? Let us know in the comment section.

We're letting the CRB Voco strings process the Computer Band, via the regular audio input, while a third player, the Siel Cruise, a lovely Mono / Poly machine, is connected as an external carrier signal, via the instrument input.

More videos of this lovely combination will be going up soon.

Vintage Audio Institute is a gear vendor and recording facility in Florence Italy."