Crumar Musical Instruments User Group.

Hi, I'm Bob Weigel.  I've been a fan of crumar stuff for some time.  I
vaguely recall something at my school and hearing it briefly I think
(I graduated in '78 from HS).  I'm a composer/electronic musician now
and work on a lot of music gear for to support my habit :-).  From
Crumar, I own a good number of working things.  Starting with a 50
dollar Performer I resurrected to life again (could use some original
knobs for it...) and oh what next.  I wound up with a DS-1 (only a
hundred and some of those made perhaps?  Anyone have production
numbers and MSR pricing?  I'd love to add that data to my
comprehensive synth technical help page at www.imt.net/~sounddoctorin.
 I have many parts availabe including keys for quite a few things
though crumars...not so much BUT..the site has a 'key guide' to show
what other synths are compatable and points to syntaur in this case
who does stock some keys that fit Bit One, etc.)  and a Bit One....and
a Trilogy.  Hmm..what else.  Well I love the sound of the trilogy
synth section and a lot of things the DS-1 does and the Bit One.  ANd
of course performer strings are awesome :-).  Hoping to someday find a
spirit at a garage sale for 30 bucks. hehe.  Heard of 'pie in the
sky'...that's 'spirit in the sky' I guess.

Oh there are some good tech hints on my page and you'll want to visit
if you own any of these instruments I've worked on.  The DS-1 for
example had an annoying oversight at least on the one I own which
would cause a bizarre intermittent gradual drift between oscillator
waveforms. -Bob

Welcome to Crumar group !

It's always a pleasure to know that some people is interest in those old machines.

To everyone: I'm looking for a Compacsynth, if someone sell it, here is my mail:

elysian.beal@...

Thanks and sorry for my bad english!

SAVE THE CRUMARS !

Yeah I guess the compacsynth is pretty cool. Haven't seen one for sale
that I can recall. Pretty rare.  I got another rare one the other day
I'm going to p/u in colorado.  Crumar Composer.  The machine was built
apparently right after the Trilogy but still pre-midi.  I'm hoping
it's full of curtis chips too :-).  I like the Trilogy for certain
sounds but of all the crumar's I have I think it's about my least
favorite for it's size/investment.  Maybe it's just the way the
filters are on this one and some caps need replacing or something
..but the strings stink on it in my opinion!  Nothing like the
performer's depth.  The siel orchestrator/sci prelude on the other
hand is a lot like the sounds of the performer and they use similar
technology with the tda1008 dividers etc.  Anyway the organ is simple
but ok on the trilogy for what it is... and the filters of course
sound great and the sounds that are useful tend to center around that
aspect and certain sync voicings or interval playing.  Hoping maybe
they did some things with the composer to lend to a little more
flexibility. We'll see! 

The DS series is great for what it is.  The Bit series also.  I really
wonder what the shortcoming is w/ my trilogy's strings.  Seems
bizarre. -Bob