This is one of them instruments where if you get real Stond...... you just scratch your arse and wonder what to do with it xD... wonderful piece of kit though i must say :).
Can't believe in all the time i have been watching your vids i have never gotten to this one - as it is is now my absolute favourite (Australian spelling!) of all!
You need a producer to just follow you round all day and make cool tracks from all of your noodling. There were about 3 snippets of patches there at the start that could have made a cool club track in a matter of minutes :)
This is an older vid,so you prob sold ARP long ago, but regardless,'
Marc, I have one of these to play with for a bit. My friends @ Analog Outfitters had some teenager bring this in after his father pasted away. Guess he found it in a closet in the basement...totally mint. Guess what, nobody knows how to even make it make it produce sounds. 5 mins in, and I'm blown away, but sadly said Teenager does know how to search the internet and found out what people pay for this. At least I have it for a little while. As the saying goes...better to have loved and lost....
@bhrama74 Well, enjoy it while you can! I thought the days of things being found in closets were over! It's good to know there are still closets with analog synths in them! : )
ARP2600 is such a fantastic synth. I have Arppe2600, the VST software version of it and it sounds great. Unfortunatelly I cannot play with it using my midi controller due to some annoying phenomenon going on.
LMAO at 4:20, and all the transitions afterward! This is great. How would you describe the other version of the filter that was'nt infringeing on Moog's design?
Excellent Demo Marc. I love the patch starting 5:13 and your subsequent facial expressions. my sentiments exactly. That's a crazy routing. Is that Ring Mod AND Sample/Hold feeding back on itself? My other favorite patch is the Bass Octave Riff @ 8:08. Cool Glitching going on there.
yes i rather enjoyed that.and in a pleasent change from demos made by young knobbers. you know what youre doing,and it sound it. not just some droning patch that some hammerhead keeps turning buttons yet the sound is the same ,bad. indeed a grownup devise for a grownup musician. ill watch them all and try to learn a bit of stuff
This only proves how boring the new plastic synthesizers are, with cheesy cheappo looking LCD screens. I won't even get in the the looks of a Windows PC...
Well spoken in the beginning! However, the product was not marketed as you demonstrate it. Nore do you explain the 'Human Engineering' that went into the Instrument....as all ARP Instruments. I really don't get any pleasure in hearing about the 'Moog' filter patent infrigment that you claim. The MOOG and The ARP (anything) were two entirely different synthesizers. I believe the Moog being designed more for what you demonstrated and the ARP's being a live performance Instrument.
@bjkaboom How did I misrepresent the marketing of the ARP 2600? Unfortunately, I know very little about the engineers or their methods in the creation of the device. These videos are designed to show sound and function, not to give a history of its development. While the Moog and ARP synthesizers were different, both companies drew from the designs of the other for a period of time, until litigation put a stop to it. Live performance? Try retuning a lateral full range slider on the fly. : )
@bjkaboom The infringement was more about the ladder filter. Whatever the external box looks like, if a company copies a circuit diagram or elements from that which is under patent by another company then that's some heavy sh** that they're getting into. Interestingly the EMS VCS3/AKS filter uses (or used) the same ladder idea, the circuit diagrams being freely available on the Net.
Great Video!!! I will definately check out the entire series. It's sad that someone (french guy and others) would be so rude and unappreciative. I studies electronic music in college, and got to play with this synth. No where near as much time as I would have liked, but had a blast with it. Thanks for stirring up many great memories. Take care friend.
@afgadfg3434 Thanks for stopping by! I am ashamed that my videos are so popular on YouTube when I am clearly such an idiot. If only I could be French. Upon reflection... some French people seem to really enjoy my videos too... I wonder what's wrong with them? Perhaps they've been corrupted by we, the American Idiots. Anyway, thanks for your honesty! Vive la France!
AAAHHH....... ARP is NOT a name. It's an abbreviation. It stands for the initials of the inventor: Alan Robert Pearlman. The letters should be pronounced individually. A. R. P. And not as Arp. And many people also pronounce Moog the wrong way. The "oo" sounds like the 'o' as in 'home'. Not like 'oo' as in 'boot'.
Sorry for intruding. Just some info. Great instrument, by the way ! ;-)
@telescopereplicator While ARP is an acronym, it is and has been pronounced as a word from the start! If you have any doubts, have a listen to the promo disc put out by the ARP company in 1971, where they pronounce it as a word, too! : )
@AutomaticGainsay ....Indeed. There is a movie and audio from this promo record on YouTube and they do pronounce it as Arp. Well....this is the first official video / recording where it hear it pronounced like this. I stand corrected. If this comes from ARP themselves, this is good enough evidence for me ! ;-) Thanks for the info.
There are a variety of things which could lead to that sort of instability, and all of them are based in things not working as they're supposed to! The tracking on mine drifts over about a year, but the oscs stay in tune quite well.
The Arp 2600 is one piece of furniture I'd love in every room, awesome looking bit of kit. But the sound and functionality is the important bit; how much fun?! Love the mess at 5:40 ;)
WOW !!elevatorbabe8..Is Mr Pearlman your dad? WOW !!I used the Omni 1, Omni 2 , the Pro Soloist, the first model not the DGX, the Quartet and the Oddessy and have recordings of them in 4 albums that I recorded in the 70's and I got a sneak peek at the Chroma. He made some of the best synths ever to grace the face of the earth. So user-friendly and logicaly laid out so that us lay men could use them right out of the box with great results. My regards to Mr Pearlman with the respect he deserves.
Is this also what Edgar Winter used for "Frankenstein" or was it a 2500? I also saw the late great Josef Zawinul use two 2600's tuned opposite each other and improvise on them WHEW!! That'll grow hair on your chest. This synth along with the MiniMoog are classics and are apples and oranges. Each has it's own very distinctive sound.Carlos Santana said "Arp has a sweet femenine sound and the Moog a masculine sound"
@ReneeNme That's an amazing recording. Davey Johnstone had to do each part to each chord track by track, which was very time consuming. It's amazing how he was able to get strings sounds on that thing even then, before the first string machine came out, which Elton John himself would play a couple years later.
hi... this is Jen C... my dad Dennis Colin invented this synthesizer! I had no idea that there was a SERIES made about it, and i doubt he even knows himself... What a marvelous tribute! I had no idea growing up how incredible this machine actually was in it's day, how it could make sounds that no other synthesizer could make. We--the ARP 2600 and myself--were actually both conceived in '69, and then were born in 1970! so this machine is, in effect, my sibling... wow that's so cool!
i am 5 yrs older than my half-sister Mel; she was born in 1975. i could tell u some really cool stories about the ARP, such as when Dad brought it up to George Harrison's hotel suite in 1970 and taught him how to use it all night! he was only 24 at the time, and the body guard almost didn't let him in because he was such a scraggly long-haired hippie, LOL. ...i also have at my house (in CA) another invention, the ARP 1047 resonater/modulator that Pete Townsend used to make Baba O'Reilly
he also worked on the ARP Odyssey, amongst others... he got on vy well w/ Alan (R. Pearlman), the owner of the company... this was in Newton, MA. when Alan let his son take over, my dad & he did not see eye to eye, to put it mildly, so Dad left. But Alan is still alive, believe it or not, and he & Dad just talked a little while ago... jeez, he must be pushing 90...! send me your email, and i shall write to you. thank you so much 4 the series; i will tell Dad, tho he hates computers!
Melissa is my half-sister; she told me about ur series, but until now i had not had a chance to see it on YouTube... i am an elevator constructor now in SF & share my dad's love of electronics. he is not doing well right now (recovering from double pneumonia), and is suffering financially as well. perhaps u could send me ur email so we could chat more privately? i am elevatorbabe@yahoo. i would love to talk by phone. dad would too; it would probably make his day to speak w/ u
Holy Jesus, This synthesiser is really big... And complicated for a kind of lame like me. Arp Odyssey is more simply (and small, but it´s not relevant...) and i like his slim design...
It was on a behind the scenes documentary I saw years ago with Ben Burtt, the Star Wars sound designer. He may have also used a synth, but he definitely used his own voice.
I wil not forgetr that it is very to fell the fool wehn i push her engery boton down and her red lightning starts to glow wa seldom sound that starts with a hightone *plaK* runs out off the boxeses folown by a deeptone *wouW*.then i normaly start woth the G-H footpanels the deepfoutsplay and the comlet Marmor stairway starts to shiffer,then the panlen set, AUX all flouts and singel for the left hand so i playd complet Saturday nights long years ago .
Here in my Stairway end stays somefing like that,a Orig,Lessley Organi paled her last not minder 10 years ago,only the demo off that makes me rember the 80s .A time i do not wish me back in the the moment.
@LouisvilleTorn8o Little bit of a sweeping statement there. Oh yes - I'd love to have a room full of analogue stuff all matrixed together - record it all on a Studer 24 track and master it direct to acetate. Play it back on my retro £10,000 stereo system.
I can't because I don't have the room or the gear or the money. So the Arturia version is the closest I (and most others) are going to get.
I have used the "real-deal" Blue-Meenie through a quadraphonic sound-system professionally.
@petecockcroft Well, since you've played both the real thing and a softsynth version, how well would you say that the softsynth duplicates the real 2600?
@LouisvilleTorn8o The obvious thing is that , to get anywhere , you will need a midi-controller mapped to all pertinent parameters. To "play" a filter requires two fingers on the original. The software version needs two controllers of course. The original was beautifully organic. The software doesn't give this but the sounds are warm and fat. I use a Magneto to hot things up.
If you're gigging then the software would be the one you take out. Keep the valuable hardware at home for recording.
@petecockcroft I guess one controler would be for the cutoff, and the other would be for the resonance? They need to make old school style MIDI controlers that have all the control features of the ARP 2600 and other synths.
If there are any Korg Oasys users reading this, does the Oasys offer easier control of parameters such as filter settings than MIDI controlers?. Can the touch screen do more than one thing at a time?
@LouisvilleTorn8o Yes indeed. The only way to get those "Tangerine Dream" - type sweeps.
Almost sounds like the filter is swallowing itself! Classic 24Db fullness and I actually prefer sliders for filter-control myself. Perhaps "Arturia" could be persuaded to make a physical replica of the 2600 - sort-of like the Korg Legacy MS20.
A 32" touch-screen with all features controllable , would be nice.
Love your videos, it's what got me into synthesis. Also, if you ever get the time, you should do videos of some of the 80s Roland synths, such as the Jupiter, Juno, or JX, series synths. You make really fascinating stuff with these old 70s synths, I know you could do neat things with those as well.
If I remember correctly, they make a number of appearances in other videos, but there hasn't been a big focus on them as they are somewhat unremarkable. I don't know if it is consistent on all of them, but the ADSR on mine has uncomfortably short attack and release.
When it is music, there is never one correct approact or one correct answer. That is the beauty of it. Thanks for the video and the little discussion.
It is actually the instrument makers( and developers) who define the future of music.
See the development of the piano music through out the development of the piano. No new development for the last 100 years and no new piano music. Timbres give the composers new ideas. And when the timbre gets very conversant (anonymous) the instrument goes not give as much inspiration and gets obsolete creative wise.
It seems that for many years by now, each and every usable sound that an analog synth can make has been created and recorded by synth players/programmers. This makes these beautiful instruments get obsolete today.
David Henschel plays some model of of the Arp Synthesizer very tastefully on Elton John's Honky Chateau album. You can hear it used on the songs: Rocket Man and Hercules. And, of course, Edgar uses the Arp 2600 to great effect on Frankenstein--if some would like to hear some of the wonderful work that others have done with this instrument.
Oh my GOD, what an amazing Synth, one of the best I've ever heard. You are very lucky to have one and very smart to keep it, you have more than gold. Thank You very much for being so serious and having made several parts (videos) of its features!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your honesty! I'd rather hear someone honestly state that it wasn't for them than hear someone state that they love it just because that's what's expected.
The song that plays from 0:00 - 0:35 as an introduction to all the videos in this series...does it have a name/is it a part of a larger composition? Or was it made specifically for this video series? I wanna know, it's such an awesome synth groove.
Just what I was looking for...... the man is genius..thanks Marc for your divine tuts.
TheMayaCloud 1 week ago
Is this polyphonic?
MajorTom106 3 weeks ago
You look a bit like Steve Perry lol
900GTi 1 month ago
this is totally awesome. i had one for two days and did not sleep.
maridejun 1 month ago
This is one of them instruments where if you get real Stond...... you just scratch your arse and wonder what to do with it xD... wonderful piece of kit though i must say :).
tom211t 2 months ago
Hi Marc,
Can't believe in all the time i have been watching your vids i have never gotten to this one - as it is is now my absolute favourite (Australian spelling!) of all!
You need a producer to just follow you round all day and make cool tracks from all of your noodling. There were about 3 snippets of patches there at the start that could have made a cool club track in a matter of minutes :)
This is an older vid,so you prob sold ARP long ago, but regardless,'
Keep it up man! You rock.
83shug 2 months ago
What music is playing at the very start of the video?
vjjunk 4 months ago
5:17 tosser
TheGISAMURAI 4 months ago
Marc, I have one of these to play with for a bit. My friends @ Analog Outfitters had some teenager bring this in after his father pasted away. Guess he found it in a closet in the basement...totally mint. Guess what, nobody knows how to even make it make it produce sounds. 5 mins in, and I'm blown away, but sadly said Teenager does know how to search the internet and found out what people pay for this. At least I have it for a little while. As the saying goes...better to have loved and lost....
bhrama74 7 months ago
@bhrama74 Well, enjoy it while you can! I thought the days of things being found in closets were over! It's good to know there are still closets with analog synths in them! : )
AutomaticGainsay 7 months ago
Great video as usual! Marc, you are the Zack Bogans of the Analog Synth world!
MrCamelneck 5 months ago
@MrCamelneck You mean Zac Bagans?
900GTi 1 month ago
@900GTi
Yeah, the Ghost Adventures dude!
MrCamelneck 4 weeks ago
@bhrama74 You should really try to get a hold of Jonny Greenwood from radiohead.. :D
NIGGUHNIGGUH123 2 months ago
ARP2600 is such a fantastic synth. I have Arppe2600, the VST software version of it and it sounds great. Unfortunatelly I cannot play with it using my midi controller due to some annoying phenomenon going on.
bocskai98 7 months ago
LMAO at 4:20, and all the transitions afterward! This is great. How would you describe the other version of the filter that was'nt infringeing on Moog's design?
brightstarlit 9 months ago
@brightstarlit Not Moog? I've only heard it through an ARP Axxe!
AutomaticGainsay 9 months ago
@brightstarlit 12Db filters suck
petecockcroft 6 months ago
please, upload the hammond novachord video :)
GeorgiMl 10 months ago
you're handsome men
LoL4Neige 10 months ago
Thanks - now I know what I was listening to in the 70's
eastperson 10 months ago
when the sound i all crazy he looks at you like:'Can you handle this?'
hongdekong 11 months ago
0:00 to 0:30 what is this? O.o!
Mattycaos 1 year ago
Sounds good @4:54!!!
ekhighvoltage 1 year ago
Sounds good @4:59!!!
ekhighvoltage 1 year ago
spanish? XD
TheAztecLast 1 year ago
i love tis for jazz. What is modulation?
numanuma20 1 year ago
what the fuck with negatives? maybe envy? lol
b00y4kk4 1 year ago
this guy is funny
finalmattasy 1 year ago
@finalmattasy Thanks!
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
Superb!
arkangelio 1 year ago
Excellent Demo Marc. I love the patch starting 5:13 and your subsequent facial expressions. my sentiments exactly. That's a crazy routing. Is that Ring Mod AND Sample/Hold feeding back on itself? My other favorite patch is the Bass Octave Riff @ 8:08. Cool Glitching going on there.
editfreek 1 year ago
yes i rather enjoyed that.and in a pleasent change from demos made by young knobbers. you know what youre doing,and it sound it. not just some droning patch that some hammerhead keeps turning buttons yet the sound is the same ,bad. indeed a grownup devise for a grownup musician. ill watch them all and try to learn a bit of stuff
coatlecue 1 year ago
@coatlecue Thank you for your kind words, and thanks for watching! : )
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
@coatlecue device*
mfcstevenson 9 months ago
Interesting sound at 8:07
Zacman123 1 year ago
Great demo & general info indeed! Thank you!
oxiigen 1 year ago
@oxiigen Thanks for watching! : )
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
the arp 2600 was use by Joe Zawinu; Weather report early to late 70s...and bt bernie worrell of parliament early albums.
lookingbill1 1 year ago
This only proves how boring the new plastic synthesizers are, with cheesy cheappo looking LCD screens. I won't even get in the the looks of a Windows PC...
dvamateur 1 year ago
I should learn now instead of watching this!
krakerz1994 1 year ago
what was the song at the beggining? was that origional? if so that badass
MrGreg2189 1 year ago
@MrGreg2189 Original song by my band Godfrey's Cordial called "Astral Daytrip." Thank you!
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
Nice one Marc. Great demo series. Well done. All the best.
oscamt 1 year ago
You look a bit like Arnold J Rimmer
MrFaceHead 1 year ago
Well spoken in the beginning! However, the product was not marketed as you demonstrate it. Nore do you explain the 'Human Engineering' that went into the Instrument....as all ARP Instruments. I really don't get any pleasure in hearing about the 'Moog' filter patent infrigment that you claim. The MOOG and The ARP (anything) were two entirely different synthesizers. I believe the Moog being designed more for what you demonstrated and the ARP's being a live performance Instrument.
bjkaboom 1 year ago
@bjkaboom How did I misrepresent the marketing of the ARP 2600? Unfortunately, I know very little about the engineers or their methods in the creation of the device. These videos are designed to show sound and function, not to give a history of its development. While the Moog and ARP synthesizers were different, both companies drew from the designs of the other for a period of time, until litigation put a stop to it. Live performance? Try retuning a lateral full range slider on the fly. : )
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
@bjkaboom The infringement was more about the ladder filter. Whatever the external box looks like, if a company copies a circuit diagram or elements from that which is under patent by another company then that's some heavy sh** that they're getting into. Interestingly the EMS VCS3/AKS filter uses (or used) the same ladder idea, the circuit diagrams being freely available on the Net.
rbrooks2007 1 year ago
Great Video!!! I will definately check out the entire series. It's sad that someone (french guy and others) would be so rude and unappreciative. I studies electronic music in college, and got to play with this synth. No where near as much time as I would have liked, but had a blast with it. Thanks for stirring up many great memories. Take care friend.
demofactory 1 year ago
@demofactory Hey, thanks for your kind words, and for watching!
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
awesome kit
Dragonstud 1 year ago
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american tutorials are so retarded and disorganized. french tutorials are much better. generations of americans have indeed become total idiots.
afgadfg3434 1 year ago
@afgadfg3434 Thanks for stopping by! I am ashamed that my videos are so popular on YouTube when I am clearly such an idiot. If only I could be French. Upon reflection... some French people seem to really enjoy my videos too... I wonder what's wrong with them? Perhaps they've been corrupted by we, the American Idiots. Anyway, thanks for your honesty! Vive la France!
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago 20
@afgadfg3434 french? eww,gross.
dragonstyle79 1 year ago
@afgadfg3434 very odd
sleestack808 1 year ago
@afgadfg3434 What a pretentious thing to say! What a pompous French douche bag!
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afgadfg3434 1 year ago
Nice troll! Now go bake bread, or maybe lose a war.
HorsePussy 1 year ago
AAAHHH....... ARP is NOT a name. It's an abbreviation. It stands for the initials of the inventor: Alan Robert Pearlman. The letters should be pronounced individually. A. R. P. And not as Arp. And many people also pronounce Moog the wrong way. The "oo" sounds like the 'o' as in 'home'. Not like 'oo' as in 'boot'.
Sorry for intruding. Just some info. Great instrument, by the way ! ;-)
telescopereplicator 1 year ago
@telescopereplicator While ARP is an acronym, it is and has been pronounced as a word from the start! If you have any doubts, have a listen to the promo disc put out by the ARP company in 1971, where they pronounce it as a word, too! : )
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
@AutomaticGainsay ....Indeed. There is a movie and audio from this promo record on YouTube and they do pronounce it as Arp. Well....this is the first official video / recording where it hear it pronounced like this. I stand corrected. If this comes from ARP themselves, this is good enough evidence for me ! ;-) Thanks for the info.
telescopereplicator 1 year ago
@telescopereplicator Well in that case you better start pronouncing "laser" - L. A. S. E. R. because that's also an acronym (not an abbreviation).
atpark333 1 year ago
Lock me in a room with one of these and don't ever let me out......we were meant to be together !!!
93Zos 1 year ago
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I am sooo inspired by the part at 4:32, wher the sample and hold clock triggers the nois output while Marc is playing that funky melody.
I think I will build my own Modular Synth, which only should be abel to do similar things.
I would use a noisegenerator and a couple 555 ic´s for the voice and the noise anable clocking and a DIY Midi to CV Module.
Maybe even a Filter but I want to keep it minimal.
64SEC 1 year ago
I am sooo inspired by the part at 4:32, wher the sample and hold clock triggers the nois output while Marc is playing that funky melody.
I think I will build my own Modular Synth, which only should be abel to do similar things.
I would use a noisegenerator and a couple 555 ic´s for the voice and the noise anable clocking and a DIY Midi to CV Module.
Maybe even a Filter but I want to keep it minimal.
64SEC 1 year ago
I think the part at 4:32 is the cooles.
The Sample an Hold clock seems to trigger the Nois output,
while he plays a melody.
It has a simple, minnimal but totaly fantastic Drum style.
I just love it!
Maybe I build my own contraption to do something similar out of two 555 ic´s and a noisgenerator...
64SEC 1 year ago
I think the part at 4:32 is the cooles.
The Sample an Hold clock seems to trigger the Nois output,
while he plays a melody.
It has a simple, minnimal but totaly fantastic Drum style.
I just love it!
Maybe I build my own contraption to do something similar out of two 555 ic´s and a noisgenerator...
64SEC 1 year ago
How did he keep it in tune? Mine was constantly going out of tune. Then again it was made in '75 or '76,
waltjones40 1 year ago
There are a variety of things which could lead to that sort of instability, and all of them are based in things not working as they're supposed to! The tracking on mine drifts over about a year, but the oscs stay in tune quite well.
AutomaticGainsay 1 year ago
Ugly?!?!?! Are you being sarcastic?!! lol
The Arp 2600 is one piece of furniture I'd love in every room, awesome looking bit of kit. But the sound and functionality is the important bit; how much fun?! Love the mess at 5:40 ;)
flitemedia 1 year ago
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ANALOG SYNTHS ARE SO UGLY : (
FUHGI 2 years ago
@FUHGI
What are you talking about man. Analog Synths are the most beautiful things in the worlds.
sabbath231 1 year ago
WOW !!elevatorbabe8..Is Mr Pearlman your dad? WOW !!I used the Omni 1, Omni 2 , the Pro Soloist, the first model not the DGX, the Quartet and the Oddessy and have recordings of them in 4 albums that I recorded in the 70's and I got a sneak peek at the Chroma. He made some of the best synths ever to grace the face of the earth. So user-friendly and logicaly laid out so that us lay men could use them right out of the box with great results. My regards to Mr Pearlman with the respect he deserves.
alcatras4 2 years ago
Is this also what Edgar Winter used for "Frankenstein" or was it a 2500? I also saw the late great Josef Zawinul use two 2600's tuned opposite each other and improvise on them WHEW!! That'll grow hair on your chest. This synth along with the MiniMoog are classics and are apples and oranges. Each has it's own very distinctive sound.Carlos Santana said "Arp has a sweet femenine sound and the Moog a masculine sound"
alcatras4 2 years ago
does anyone know what they used in elton john's funeral for a friend?
tcbkp77 2 years ago
That would be the ARP 2500 tcbkp77.
ReneeNme 2 years ago
@ReneeNme That's an amazing recording. Davey Johnstone had to do each part to each chord track by track, which was very time consuming. It's amazing how he was able to get strings sounds on that thing even then, before the first string machine came out, which Elton John himself would play a couple years later.
LouisvilleTorn8o 6 months ago
lol u dance funny... great synth btw
gbboi 2 years ago
close encounters used a 2500 modular synth played by arp engineer phil dodds in the movie
sidingguy56 2 years ago
the one they used in that movie close encounters of the third kind was an arp 2600 and it doesn't look anything like that.
leakesonasucs 2 years ago
I think you're thinking of the ARP 2500.
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
hi... this is Jen C... my dad Dennis Colin invented this synthesizer! I had no idea that there was a SERIES made about it, and i doubt he even knows himself... What a marvelous tribute! I had no idea growing up how incredible this machine actually was in it's day, how it could make sounds that no other synthesizer could make. We--the ARP 2600 and myself--were actually both conceived in '69, and then were born in 1970! so this machine is, in effect, my sibling... wow that's so cool!
elevatorbabe8 2 years ago
You're the second person to come to me indicating that your dad created the ARP 2600. Interesting.
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
i am 5 yrs older than my half-sister Mel; she was born in 1975. i could tell u some really cool stories about the ARP, such as when Dad brought it up to George Harrison's hotel suite in 1970 and taught him how to use it all night! he was only 24 at the time, and the body guard almost didn't let him in because he was such a scraggly long-haired hippie, LOL. ...i also have at my house (in CA) another invention, the ARP 1047 resonater/modulator that Pete Townsend used to make Baba O'Reilly
elevatorbabe8 2 years ago
he also worked on the ARP Odyssey, amongst others... he got on vy well w/ Alan (R. Pearlman), the owner of the company... this was in Newton, MA. when Alan let his son take over, my dad & he did not see eye to eye, to put it mildly, so Dad left. But Alan is still alive, believe it or not, and he & Dad just talked a little while ago... jeez, he must be pushing 90...! send me your email, and i shall write to you. thank you so much 4 the series; i will tell Dad, tho he hates computers!
elevatorbabe8 2 years ago
Melissa is my half-sister; she told me about ur series, but until now i had not had a chance to see it on YouTube... i am an elevator constructor now in SF & share my dad's love of electronics. he is not doing well right now (recovering from double pneumonia), and is suffering financially as well. perhaps u could send me ur email so we could chat more privately? i am elevatorbabe@yahoo. i would love to talk by phone. dad would too; it would probably make his day to speak w/ u
elevatorbabe8 2 years ago
killer
robimess 2 years ago
Holy Jesus, This synthesiser is really big... And complicated for a kind of lame like me. Arp Odyssey is more simply (and small, but it´s not relevant...) and i like his slim design...
GirlinTheFire27 2 years ago
it`s sounds like the old dos games
hondaprelude9296 2 years ago
I know for shore:-)I had one myself,but I sold it,and I regret:-(It ha s a real fat sound and want it in the future.
kurnilse 2 years ago
I enjoyed this, I just might have to watch the whole thing and drool over the circuits xD
DagGirl 2 years ago
Ha. Killer.. what more can you say?
tr80808 2 years ago
this video is genius. You definitely know your ARP.
Xitherun 2 years ago
I heard they used the 2600 at Skywalker Sound to make the sounds for R2-D2
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago 11
wasn't it the prophet-5?
panulli4 2 years ago
no, sorry, that wouldn't fit in time.
but I heard that they used the prophet-5 a lot for the star wars movies.
panulli4 2 years ago
Vintage Synth??
AnthonyDingemanse 2 years ago
??? I don't understand what you are asking.
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
Do you have that info from vintage synth explorer???
AnthonyDingemanse 2 years ago
Tbh, I dont remember. I probably got it from Wikipedia, it could have been from VSE, though.
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
R2D2 was made by recording a human voice making "robot noises" and speeding it up. Seriously.
tesseracht 2 years ago
i seriously doubt that.
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
It was on a behind the scenes documentary I saw years ago with Ben Burtt, the Star Wars sound designer. He may have also used a synth, but he definitely used his own voice.
tesseracht 2 years ago
ok then
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
There were definitely other effects mixed in, but Burtt used the 2600 as the basis for a lot of sounds.
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
no it wasn't. they used my dad's invention. ask George Lucas
elevatorbabe8 2 years ago
@UnchainTheNight1
It was actually an instrument called a Theremin, look it up its pretty sweet :-)
treetopflyer22 1 year ago
@UnchainTheNight1 True. Even the software version does the cool r2 bleeps.
hafstrat 11 months ago
A lot of work, he?! But as it is one of my fav synths: thanks a lot !
anonymusum 2 years ago
you look cooler with long hair xD
panulli4 2 years ago
Nice job Marc. I posted your series on the Alesis Fusion Forum website. I hope its OK with you.
stockhausen 2 years ago
Hey, thank you very much! : )
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
did u get the link to the Fusion website? if not post email adress...JP
stockhausen 2 years ago
I did get the link, but I haven't gone yet! I don't really know very much about modern keyboards!
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
nice playing, a little bit baroque in places (which is always good for synthesiser music)
firehandszarb 2 years ago
I wil not forgetr that it is very to fell the fool wehn i push her engery boton down and her red lightning starts to glow wa seldom sound that starts with a hightone *plaK* runs out off the boxeses folown by a deeptone *wouW*.then i normaly start woth the G-H footpanels the deepfoutsplay and the comlet Marmor stairway starts to shiffer,then the panlen set, AUX all flouts and singel for the left hand so i playd complet Saturday nights long years ago .
C.K.
ChristianAether 2 years ago
Here in my Stairway end stays somefing like that,a Orig,Lessley Organi paled her last not minder 10 years ago,only the demo off that makes me rember the 80s .A time i do not wish me back in the the moment.
C.K.
ChristianAether 2 years ago
How lucky can you get to play on this machine!
intheshed1979 2 years ago
Arturia make a software version that I use in my Cubase Computer.
petecockcroft 2 years ago
@petecockcroft Softsynths aren't the real deal!
LouisvilleTorn8o 6 months ago
@LouisvilleTorn8o Little bit of a sweeping statement there. Oh yes - I'd love to have a room full of analogue stuff all matrixed together - record it all on a Studer 24 track and master it direct to acetate. Play it back on my retro £10,000 stereo system.
I can't because I don't have the room or the gear or the money. So the Arturia version is the closest I (and most others) are going to get.
I have used the "real-deal" Blue-Meenie through a quadraphonic sound-system professionally.
petecockcroft 6 months ago
@petecockcroft Well, since you've played both the real thing and a softsynth version, how well would you say that the softsynth duplicates the real 2600?
LouisvilleTorn8o 6 months ago
@LouisvilleTorn8o The obvious thing is that , to get anywhere , you will need a midi-controller mapped to all pertinent parameters. To "play" a filter requires two fingers on the original. The software version needs two controllers of course. The original was beautifully organic. The software doesn't give this but the sounds are warm and fat. I use a Magneto to hot things up.
If you're gigging then the software would be the one you take out. Keep the valuable hardware at home for recording.
petecockcroft 6 months ago
@petecockcroft I guess one controler would be for the cutoff, and the other would be for the resonance? They need to make old school style MIDI controlers that have all the control features of the ARP 2600 and other synths.
If there are any Korg Oasys users reading this, does the Oasys offer easier control of parameters such as filter settings than MIDI controlers?. Can the touch screen do more than one thing at a time?
LouisvilleTorn8o 6 months ago
@LouisvilleTorn8o Yes indeed. The only way to get those "Tangerine Dream" - type sweeps.
Almost sounds like the filter is swallowing itself! Classic 24Db fullness and I actually prefer sliders for filter-control myself. Perhaps "Arturia" could be persuaded to make a physical replica of the 2600 - sort-of like the Korg Legacy MS20.
A 32" touch-screen with all features controllable , would be nice.
petecockcroft 6 months ago
The Blue Meenie has it with the Moog type filters
petecockcroft 2 years ago
I wish you the best of luck in finding one. : )
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
Nice demo!
The 2600 is the synth I use the most. Always some use for it in a song.
I personally prefer the Black & Orange one but they are all about as good as synths get.
buchla300 2 years ago
Thank you! I like the look of the Black & Orange, but prefer the sound of the 4012 filter of the Gray!
Thanks for watching!
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
The 4012 is a nice moog filter, but the clincher for me is the percussive sounds of the orange & black one.
Nothing I have heard comes even remotely close. Not quite sure what ARP did, but it's an absolutely killer filter for resonant percusive sounds.
I have a 2500 too and the filter on that is extremely musical but compared to the 2600, quite polite (which is a good thing too!)
buchla300 2 years ago
is the gray one the one that edgar winter used?
Tracebebo 2 years ago
Love your videos, it's what got me into synthesis. Also, if you ever get the time, you should do videos of some of the 80s Roland synths, such as the Jupiter, Juno, or JX, series synths. You make really fascinating stuff with these old 70s synths, I know you could do neat things with those as well.
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
I will be doing a JX3P demo at some point!
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
that will totally rule
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
awesome.... wasnt life dull b4 youtube!!
hafstrat 2 years ago
@hafstrat Not really - we had the Two Ronnies and The Good Life!!
petecockcroft 6 months ago
thanks for taking the time to introduce these synths to us!
deeroks1 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i have software that can do all this and more : ] haaahaha.
Tiv4th 2 years ago
Yes, but outboard gear has always and will always, sound MUCH better.
bigmartin3000 2 years ago 4
So do I. I have an Arp emulator. I still wish I had the real thing !
diablo22900 2 years ago
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sonicboomboy909 2 years ago
Synth Geeks = Bong Hits
SidewalkFrequencies 2 years ago
Fuck Yeah! Nothing like smoking some good herb and sitting down with a synth!
diablo22900 2 years ago
Where I can find the song from the intro ?
townshend1969 2 years ago
It will be available on the Analog Compenium Volume 2 DVD.
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
amazing that some of these sounds existed way back in 1970.
Still, even now as most synths...this arp still sounds fresh and futuristic.
Marc Doty for president!
pmsan29 2 years ago
this synth has balls ^^
naturecollision 2 years ago
4:32 sounds almost exactly like the music from cobra triangle for the NES!! awesome... I'm going to purchase this from arturia I think.
carlellement 2 years ago
o my god ur awesome automatic, how did u get all ur vintage synths?
MisfioPeton 2 years ago
Ha ha, thanks. I just keep trading up, I suppose. It helps when values continue to climb.
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
what is the price of the arp 2600 ?
MisfioPeton 2 years ago
$1,000 - $2,500
LzI 2 years ago
rsome.......
hafstrat 2 years ago
Ha ha, thanks!
AutomaticGainsay 2 years ago
It would be interesting to see a section on the AR and ADSR Envelope Generators.
rbrooks2006 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, they make a number of appearances in other videos, but there hasn't been a big focus on them as they are somewhat unremarkable. I don't know if it is consistent on all of them, but the ADSR on mine has uncomfortably short attack and release.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
When it is music, there is never one correct approact or one correct answer. That is the beauty of it. Thanks for the video and the little discussion.
tx816 3 years ago
By obsolesce, I mean
It is actually the instrument makers( and developers) who define the future of music.
See the development of the piano music through out the development of the piano. No new development for the last 100 years and no new piano music. Timbres give the composers new ideas. And when the timbre gets very conversant (anonymous) the instrument goes not give as much inspiration and gets obsolete creative wise.
tx816 3 years ago
Again, there would be many who disagree... as timbre is only one portion, and sometimes a tiny portion, of a composition.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
That is true, people has not been able to write a new masterpiece for the violin for hundreds of years.
tx816 3 years ago
There are many who would disagree. Timbre does not define obsolescence, even in a device whose strength is new timbre.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
It seems that for many years by now, each and every usable sound that an analog synth can make has been created and recorded by synth players/programmers. This makes these beautiful instruments get obsolete today.
tx816 3 years ago
That is like suggesting that the violin is obsolete because people have been playing them for hundreds of years.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
@tx816 But you can plug a patch-lead in on the fly and other things that can't be done with stored-samples or emulation. They'll never be obsolete.
petecockcroft 6 months ago
did you do the music?
theamazinglickhead 3 years ago
Yes.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
if i had this thing...i would never get any sleep and go two weeks at a times making crazy music on it!
altonoir 3 years ago 2
yes!!!
altonoir 3 years ago
great instrument
vukproject 3 years ago
David Henschel plays some model of of the Arp Synthesizer very tastefully on Elton John's Honky Chateau album. You can hear it used on the songs: Rocket Man and Hercules. And, of course, Edgar uses the Arp 2600 to great effect on Frankenstein--if some would like to hear some of the wonderful work that others have done with this instrument.
aarfeld 3 years ago
Oh my GOD, what an amazing Synth, one of the best I've ever heard. You are very lucky to have one and very smart to keep it, you have more than gold. Thank You very much for being so serious and having made several parts (videos) of its features!!!!!!!!
richardroll123 3 years ago
i don't like this thing. just random sounds coming out. some of them pretty annoying. some beautiful too. but no i don't like it.
saleall 3 years ago
Thanks for your honesty! I'd rather hear someone honestly state that it wasn't for them than hear someone state that they love it just because that's what's expected.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
4:55-5:10 sounds like something Jexus (WC Olo Garb) would do if he had a 2600.
CDEFoxtrot 3 years ago
Ha ha, I would love to hear what Jexus would do with a 2600.
AutomaticGainsay 3 years ago
Some crazy s**t that we wish we could make, that's what!
CDEFoxtrot 3 years ago
totally mate!
microkorgboy 3 years ago
The song that plays from 0:00 - 0:35 as an introduction to all the videos in this series...does it have a name/is it a part of a larger composition? Or was it made specifically for this video series? I wanna know, it's such an awesome synth groove.
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