The SL-8 nomenclature came from the fact that it would have had 8 voices and bitimbral capability, with each timbre controlled from half of a split keyboard. The voice architecture consisted of one DCO, with a second slave oscillator that could be sync'ed to the DCO in various ways to produce complex timbres. A classic Moog transistor ladder VCF and a Curtis VCA completed the basic voice signal path, and the synth had a built-in chorus effect with programmable rate and depth. The synth had patch memory with 100 locations, and built-in sequencer and arpeggiator capability. All of this was controlled, and the DCO timing came from, a Texas Instruments TMS 99/4 16-bit microprocessor, which would have made the SL-8 one of the first synths to use 16-bit processing. This also allowed for greater