Crumar Spirit Service And Demo (by synthpro)

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"Hey guys,
In this video I show the internal workings of the Crumar Spirit as well as give a complete breakdown demo of what this synth offers.

Special thanks to the Bob Moog Foundation for the opportunity to work on this synthesizer and to all of you who watch my videos.

Sincerely,
Jareth"

Crumar Bit 01 Synthesizer Module Pro Serviced w/ Tauntek OS Upgrade SN 00666

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"Not to be confused with the Crumar Bit One keyboard, this is the rack of the Bit 99. The older Bit One keyboard contained SSM chips. This unit contains CEM chips. It sounds great!

This unit's been professionally serviced and is working perfectly. We installed the excellent Tauntek OS which adds full MIDI CC control over all parameters - this makes it much more useful as you can automate parameters and program it from midi CC knob boxes or computer editors, and is a must have.

We also installed a new battery and replaced capacitors in the power supply as a preventative measure.

This unit was originally sold in Europe (as most of them were) and is therefore 220 volts, so if you're not in a country where that's the norm, you'll need the correct transformer. These are cheap and readily available."

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Dan Burns Music - Studio Time - Synthesizers

video upload by Dan Burns Music

"An original composition showcasing some favorite synthesizers in my studio, recorded to cassette on the Tascam 238.

Featured instruments:
Akai AX60
Akai S612 Sampler
Yamaha DX7iiD
Crumar Stratus
Casio CZ101

Music composed, performed and produced by Dan Burns.
Copyright 2022.

All footage filmed by Dan Burns with a Panasonic OmniMovie VHS camcorder.

Contact and Bio:
http://danburns.space"

Crumar Spirit re-issue s/n 186508 (2024)

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"One of only 100 made in this one-off run of the classic synth re-born, this is in excellent condition and comes complete with its original owner's manual, patch examples, and certificate of authenticity. One of the few differences with the original is the inclusion of MIDI IN. Another is the universal power supply. Apparently the run is all sold out. Packing 12GBP to include a UK or Euro mains lead."

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Crumar Performer *Serviced + Warranty*

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Crumar Spirit Reissue

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"Crumar Spirit reissue. One of 100 made. In excellent condition, I’m the second owner but it has never left my studio. Insane synth, super underrated. If you’re looking for something gnarly that no one else has, this one is for you."

2024 Crumar Spirit

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"Mint condition Crumar Spirit synthesizer. 2024 version. Limited and now gone. Think of this as a slightly strange, Italian Moog (Bob Moog designed the original)."

Crumar Panorgan X76 Rare Unknown Gem

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"This quirky instrument sounds incredible, and because of its non-standard keyboard it makes you play differently, and produce new chord progressions you would never achieve on guitar or piano-style keyboard. In very good cosmetic condition apart from the things arrowed in red on the pics - an unimportant music rest with a break in it, and the scrapes caused by the incredibly bad lid design - lift it up and it almost always falls down and scrapes the panel unless you take care. (Now the hinges have been reversed to avoid that happening.) The drum machine is cheesy but in a good way. Seriously hand-made and impossible to re-create today. Euro/UK power, currently with UK mains lead. Packing 24GBP."

Pics of the inside below. Note this appears to be the first Crumar Panorgan X76 to be featured on the site.

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Vintage 1983 Crumar Spirit — Bob Moog Designed Masterpiece SN 00045

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"While this gorgeous vintage Moog-designed Crumar Spirit synthesizer is in exceptionally nice cosmetic shape, it will need a basic calibration and the noise generator will need to be addressed for it to be 100% factory functional.

With this being said — this 1983 Crumar Spirit is an absolutely stunning, tonally mind-blowing, and creatively mesmerizing synth. There is not much to say that hasn’t been said before. One of Bob Moog’s finest designs, and one of the very rarest. An extremely flexible analog mono synth with 2 VCO’s, a legendary filter section, many features I could cherry-pick through… I encourage you to feel free to reach out with any questions regarding the technical functions of this synth, if you don’t know much about these. I imagine that many of those viewing this listing know precisely what they are looking at.

The Spirit is fully original aside from 4 replaced switches; the original switches will be included in the sale. It is near mint cosmetically, aside from one tiny chip on the back-side corner (see pics) and the aforementioned replaced switches. Truly a sight to behold in person. As I mentioned earlier, the synth could use a calibration and the noise generator is currently non-functioning; but otherwise the Spirit is working 100%. Included in the sale is the original, fitted leather case."

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Crumar DS-2 - "Vintage Sampler Series" 165 Samplepack

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"Welcome to the sounds of Vintage Treassure - Crumar DS2 Synthesizer (1978)

BUY: https://lfo.sellfy.store/p/crumar-ds-...

Nick Klimenko had a great opportunity to play on the one of the rariest instrument in the world & sample fully restored & tuned DS-2 synthesizer!

Big Thanks to Alex & Dmitriy for this gift!

Now you have an access to 165 exclusive samples:

Leads
Basses
Drones
Strings
Pads
Seq's
FX
Plucks
Bells

Hi quality 24/44 samples (161 mb) in root "C" in different octaves to transpose to any not you want."

Crumar Bit-One (HKA Midi Upgrade) SN 00613

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"Such a sweet sounding synth, really nothing quite like it! The Crumar Bit One is a main stay of synth-waver Com Truise, but its true roots belong to Italo Disco. With two DCO's it really is on par with the Juno series (if only it had sliders and that slick chorus). Two LFO's and Envelopes round out this beast to make a superb piece of kit.

Sadly, the Bit One fell far short of glory in the midi department, but this has been remedied by the installation of the HKA midi kit in this unit. This upgrade does the following:

Local keyboard and external MIDI can be used at the same time - plugging a cable into the MIDI IN socket no longer disables the local keyboard. Local control can be turned off in setup mode if desired.

Receiving channel for external MIDI can be set on the synth itself, and is remembered on power-off. (Transmitted MIDI channel is fixed on channel 1)

MIDI handling is much more reliable. The board filters out all other channels before they get to the main CPU, also ignoring any messages that it cannot use, so there are no more MIDI overload-caused crashes, stuck notes etc.

Now receives MIDI pitch bend (±2 semitone range) and mod wheel. MIDI mod wheel is provided by a dedicated LFO, independent from the Bit One's own two LFOs. The modulation depth can also be controlled by MIDI channel aftertouch.

Receives MIDI sustain pedal (CC 64), which is used to control the Bit One's hold functionality.

Adds an arpeggiator with up, down, up + down and random modes. (Requires an external MIDI clock source such as a drum machine)

The Bit One also has some trouble with memory and battery longevity. This unit saves patches 10-60, and some are blank. I have programmed the blank patches and had success saving them, but perhaps it is worth replacing the battery on this unit (its probably pretty old anyway).

While the lighting in the photos makes this particular Bit One look a little crusty, natural light does wonders and this unit is in tip top shape, a real gem. It has been well taken care of. The keys are a little yellow as well, but I've seen worse.

The headphone output is a little noisy, but the main outputs are clean as a whistle. You know, the outputs the do the heavy lifting."

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Crumar Bit One Polyphonic Analog Keyboard Synthesizer

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A Bit More - starting to come together

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"This is my 8 voice bi-timbral poly synth based loosely on the Crumar Bit series of polysynths. The 8 DCOs are sent note on/off messages over midi on individual midi channels from the controller board. Common commands for octave shift etc are send on channels 1 & 2 for each half of the synth.Just testing the polyphonic control for Poly 1, 2, solo and unison."

Synergy Synergize Synergia 2024

video upload by Ross Totino and Fans of Collision

"Demo of original presets I've created using the Synergize editor with the Crumar DK Synergy synthesizer, and then recorded with the Synergia emulated version of the Synergy on an iMac M1. Synergize editor by Steve Tynor available at https://chinenual.github.io/synergize Synergia by Jari Kleimola available at https://jariseon.github.io/synergia/"

0:00 Shimmer
0:57 PercSweep
01:47 ADDSWP2
02:26 BRASSBAS
03:04 BUZZBUD
03:35 CRYSTAL
04:25 ORBITER
05:40 CONTAKT
06:38 SHIPTRIP
07:35 MODFUN
08:40 ORGSWP
09:45 STLDRM
10:46 SHIPTRIP
11:45 VOICIFOR

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Pale Fire by Robotussin

New release from supporting member Robotussin. You might recall some of his vintage synth videos featured in previous posts here. Don't miss them.

Pale Fire was made on an Oberheim FVS, Crumar Spirit, LinnDrum, Recodrum, DX7, Roland MKS-80, TR-808, TR-606, TB-303, Oberheim Matrix-1000, Korg PE-1000.

Vintage 1980's Crumar Performer Synthesizer Enamel Pushback Lapel Pin

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You can find additional pics of the pin in previous posts here.

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Playing a Super Rare Crumar Organ | Funky Vintage Found on Reverb

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"The Crumar Cougar is a super rare suitcase-style drawbar organ, manufactured in Italy. This one—dressed in white, which is even rarer than the red enclosure—is vibey, versatile, and a great textural addition to any rig. Watch Joe Shadid experiment with it, and head to Reverb for more [here].

Special thanks to Synth City/Rock n Roll Vintage.
https://rocknrollvintage.com/

Filmed and Recorded at Narwhal Studios. https://narwhalchicago.com/"

Crumar BIT DCO clone with added functionality

video upload by Craig Barnes

"This dual DCO is based on the counter/resistor ladder technique used in the Crumar Bit series of polyphonic synthesizers, the 8253c triple counter has been replaced by a Waveshare Zero RP2040 based SOC. This allows the Waveshare to receive MIDI and calculate portamento etc. The only thing I want to add is an interval for DCO2 to set things like 5ths up in the DCO pair. Each DCO currently has 4 waveforms, Saw, PWM, Triangle and SUB. Although I might reduce that down by removing a triangle and SUB from either side. It was designed as a DCO core for a monosynth or a poly depending on needs."

VCDO based Polysynth in a Crumar Stratus case

video upload by Craig Barnes

"A 6 note polysynth design that I have been building on and off for about 3 years since i had the idea. I gutted an old Stratus as I got it very cheap and the original idea was to only replace the organ generation circuits with real VCO's or DCO's to feed the Stratus CEM filters etc. But as it developed I ended up replacing more and more of the Stratus with my own designs or interpretations of designs I've found on the web. It switched between CEM3340 VCO's an Electric Druid VCDO1 chips, eventually settling on the VCDO1 chips even though the waves are only 8 bit, its very PPGish.

The specs are as follows.

Dual Electric Druid VCDO1 oscillators with modified firmware for new waveforms and performance.
Multipole filters similar to the Shruthi design but using the CEM3320 and pole mixing. 16 states, resonance, key tracking, EG depth & invert and looping.
LFO with 16 waveforms, slope and delay, depth and multiple destinations. Electric Druid TAPLFO3.
White Noise source based on the Electric Druid Noise 2
3x EG's per voice, Pitch, Filter and Amplifier, switchable velocity on each EG, Electric Druid EnvGEN8c.
Bit Crush on the waveforms
Poly/Unison modes
999 memory locations
MIDI and CV in/outs and can be used to drive CV based equipment"

Mikaela Davis & Circles Around The Sun's '70s-Inspired Touring Rig

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"Rock harpist Mikaela Davis and psychedelic disco jammers Circles Around The Sun went on tour together recently, and we had a chance to catch up with them to check out their live rigs. Read more on Reverb"

0:00-6:24 Mikaela (Harp)
6:25-13:55 John (Guitar)
13:56-17:01 Adam (Synths and Keyboards)
17:02-20:02 Mark (Drums)
20:03 Dan (Bass)

Circles Around The Sun and Mikaela Davis - Gloaming Way | Audiotree Live

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"Download & stream Circles Around The Sun and Mikaela Davis on Audiotree Live → https://lnk.to/AT-CATS

Out of the sun kissed beaches of Los Angeles, CA, a new collaboration has emerged between disco cosmonauts Circles Around The Sun and acclaimed harpist Mikaela Davis. During their Audiotree Live Session, the crew plays songs off their album 'After Sunrise,' setting off on a psychedelic exploration through effervescent harp accents and groovy basslines. During their interview with Audiotree Host, Psalm One, the band chats about their origin story, their songwriting process, and the creative chemistry that led to their new release. Check out Circles Around The Sun and Mikaela Davis on Audiotree Live!

Recorded on March 22, 2024 in Chicago, IL.

Visit the band's website → https://www.circlesaroundthesun.com/"