A manufacturer of synth equipment in the late 1970s and early '80s. The company's founder, Californian Bob Easton, was an acquaintance of Tom Oberheim and the two collaborated on some pitch converter designs circa 1975. 360's first product, introduced around 1977, was the Slavedriver, a pitch-to-CV/gate converter that, in theory, could be used with any instrument and would control an analog synthesizer with CV/gate inputs. 360 and Oberheim jointly marketed a package consisting of the Slavedriver and an Oberheim SEM, aimed mainly at singers and players of brass and woodwind instruments, advertising that the package allowed the performer to control the SEM with their voice or instrument Another package consisted of the Slavedriver and an Oberheim OB-1; this was advertised mainly to guitarist