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Powerful Analog Tones from '80s Italy

Massive warmth, impressive tones, and a unique analog sound

All sounds recorded with optional SPX90 Symphonic Chorus

Explore hundreds of custom-designed presets or create your own

Included in

Powerful Analog Tones from '80s Italy

Massive warmth, impressive tones, and a unique analog sound

All sounds recorded with optional SPX90 Symphonic Chorus

Explore hundreds of custom-designed presets or create your own

INSPIRATION

INSTRUMENT

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SPECS

$79

INSPIRATION

INSTRUMENT

LISTEN

SPECS

$79

Inspiration

Bit Zone is inspired by the Italian-born Crumar Bit 99, an obscure digitally-controlled 6-voice polyphonic analog synth released in competition to the popular 6-voice analog synths coming out of Japan at the time. No slouch, this formidable synth was designed with 2 DCOs and 2 LFOs per-voice, per-voice CEM 3328 analog filters, and per-voice VCAs, making it exceptionally versatile.

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Overview

Instrument

Everything you hear in Bit Zone started on the real hardware, as our sound designers pushed the instrument to its limits to create an impressive range of sounds, with both era-specific and contemporary styles in mind. On top of that, every sample was recorded both with and without a hardware Yamaha SPX90 "Symphonic" chorus inline, allowing you to activate this defacto '80s effect at will in your own sound design.

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In the end we recorded over 29,000 samples from the Bit 99, packing Bit Zone with 370+ presets made from 160+ layers. Explore patch categories including Animated Arp, Animated Chord Step, Animated One Key, Bass, Bells, Brass, FX, Keys, Leads, Organ, Pads, Pluck, Polysynth, Strings, and Winds. Each sound in Bit Zone is fully-customizable and can be used straight-away or as the starting point for a new sound. Raw waveforms from the Bit 99 are also available for those wanting to create from scratch.

Bit Zone's aesthetic was adapted to closely follow the design cues of the hardware, giving you the feel of this uniquely styled instrument as you edit the dual-layer sounds including oscillators, envelopes, multimode filters, LFO and step modulator, dual arpeggiators and a featured effect section including EQ, drive, Thorus, ensemble, Phasor, delay, and Sparkverb.

Powerful and warm, the Bit Zone is an analog polysynth not to be missed, with brilliant and inspiring sounds useful for producers of nearly any background.

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Licensing:

3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

What you get:

Size:	16.02 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 34.48 GB in WAV)
Content:	378 Presets, 168 Layers and 29,568 Samples
Sample Resolution:	44.1 kHz. Recording at 88.2 kHz

System requirements:

Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.1.3, and Falcon version 2.5.3
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation
Supported Operating Systems:
- - MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 26 Tahoe
- - Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
16GB of disk space
Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
4 GB RAM

Compatibility:

Supported Formats:	Audio Units, AAX, VST, VST3, Stand-alone
Tested and certified in:	Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+, Ability 1+

Bit Zone Manual Soundbank Installation Guide

Crumar, Bit 99, Yamaha and SPX90 are trademarks of their respective owners. UVI is not affiliated or endorsed by any entities listed here.