The Oxford Synthesiser Company (OSC) was a small British
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
manufacturer, active during the early 1980s. It was founded in 1982 by electronics design engineer
Chris Huggett, with Paul Wiffen, after
Electronic Dream Plant Electronic Dream Plant (EDP) was a small British synthesizer manufacturer, active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the time their products were not particularly successful commercially. In later years products like the "WASP" became prized ...
folded.
Products
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OSC OSCar
The OSCar was a synthesizer manufactured by the Oxford Synthesiser Company from 1983 to 1985. It was ahead of its time in several ways and its later versions were among the few mono-synths of its time to have MIDI.
Around 2000 were made.
Histo ...
Related companies
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Electronic Dream Plant Electronic Dream Plant (EDP) was a small British synthesizer manufacturer, active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the time their products were not particularly successful commercially. In later years products like the "WASP" became prized ...
(''EDP'')
* Novation, co-developers with Chris Huggett since the 1990s.
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Synthesizer manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom