ARP Avatar Demo #1 by 123synthland

We deal in vintage synthesizers, but you already know that. :) Here's the ARP Avatar we've currently got up for sale. The Avatar is essentially a keyboard-less version of the ARP Odyssey that was designed to be played by either a guitar or a CV Gate instrument like an old vintage keyboard with 1 volt per octave and gate outputs or an analog sequencer.
These days most people use them with a MIDI to CV converter or a guitar. These are pretty rare. They're often without the guitar pickup or their guitar circuitry isn't working right. This particular one was tested with a guitar, works well and comes with the hard to find guitar pickup as well. This series of video clips features the Avatar, with occasional help from a few other items we're unloading - a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Roland SH-101 Blue and Oberheim Mini-Sequencer. All of the sounds are coming from the Avatar in all except 1 video where the SH-101 is patched through the filter together with the Avatar's oscillators. The reverb and delay effects are courtesy of the Roland Space Echo and any sequences you hear come from the Oberheim Mini-Sequencer and/or the SH-101. Several of these videos show just the ARP triggering itself, without a sequencer. Enjoy, and email me anytime at minime123@onebox.com

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Music

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• arp
• avatar
• odyssey
• 2600
• 2500
• axxe
• sound
• effects
• vintage
• synthesizer
• synth
• keyboard
• analog
• moog
• buchla
• oberheim
• synthi

[Rikk303]

The guitar would need to be equipped with a Roland pickup or similar and would trigger the synths in the same way as our gloved magician does...have always loved that sort of noise ever since the BBC Radiophonic workshop started messing around with oscillators. Good stuff friend

[123synthland]

thanks :) arp made a guitar pickup for the avatar. you dont wanna hear me play guitar though. thats for sure.

[futility1981]

hook it to a guitar and play it with your sausage!

[123synthland]

up yours, mutha@$*#%! ;)

[futility1981]

but I like the sausage, it's funny!

[123synthland]

i know, i was kidding. "its all good". :)

[m100p]

This is pornography to a gear slut like me. Lol!

[drkam6]

Someone please post a proper demo of the Avatar used as a guitar synthesizer.

[Thompsongs]

This is the synth Rush used to make those noises at the beginning of 2112. And you can sort of tell by listening to this video. (by the way, I'm not just guessing that Rush used the 2600 for 2112...I read Geddy say it himself.)

[linolinetti]

vintage rulezzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chumleh]

It'd be interesting to do something in the style of John Cage with one of these.

[Rikk303]

Why add another variable? Love all the old synth sounds. Robert Moog was god when I was a kid and I now have a Casio that I paid few bucks for but can do everything those old beauties could but with a "failsafe return to settings" type button. Emerson and Wakeman rule the roost

[jaikwillis]

I would like to hear it linked to a guitar pickup too !