120 Years of Electronic Music
Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990
Oxford Synthesiser Company "Oscar"(1983)
The Oscar Analogue synthesiser
The Oxford Synthesiser Company and Electronic Dream Plant Ltd were two Oxford, UK based synthesiser companies run by the designer Chris Huggett, manufacturing innovative yet affordable synthesisers during the 1980's.

The OSCar was a compact dual oscillator analogue synthesiser built into a rubberised casing. The OSCar had two wide-range DCO's, capable of producing both analogue-style waveforms and programmable digital additive waveforms; dual resonant multimode VCF's with overdrive and separation controls; a wide-range LFO; two additional LFO's for PWM. The OSCar came with an inbuilt step sequencer of 580, later 1500 notes and an arpeggiator it also had memory (12 RAM/24 ROM) locations for storing yoursounds, waveforms and sequences. An upgraded MIDI and EPROM upgrade version was released in 1984.

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