ARP 2500 modular sequence

the fantastic king ARP 2500 playing with 2 vco's / 2 filters / 1 vca / 3 env & the sequencer

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Music

Tags:

• moog
• modular
• synth
• analog
• arp
• oberheim

[landmcgreggor2008]

How do you get one of these...can you buy them off internet?.

[polyvoks]

bought it many years ago in England , yes it's possible to find it sometime on ebay , perhaps one time a year , hold on !

[teroniusmonk]

I have always wondered if you can play something decent with these ARPs? Although it has ordinary piano-like keys. Everything I have heard is just bleebing and twiddling the knobs. No one uses the keyboard... Pete Townshend played an organ through it to get a chord. Is it the only way?

[polyvoks]

no , I't's possible to do all kind of "musical" sound , I'll do some others vids playing the keyboard soon .

stay tuned

[momatt]

Jeez. This machine needs more knobs!

[armalyte]

YOU CAN HEAR THE MP3 CODEC BEIGN SMAHSED TO BITS cause you better beleive it, analog synths with 24db lpf's can smash things to pieces. My system 100 blew a pair of gale refs out eventually cuase the osciallators can go all the way down to 10hz. But analog sound generation is inherantly louder and more gutsier due to the undulations of voltages going thru not very energy efficent circuit paths. VA'S have their uses, analog blows the pants off them . Witness the recent surges in price are proof.

[MrCamelneck]

@teroniusmonk

Townshend used an organ on "Won't Get Fooled Again" because he was playing chords (on the record, he actually used an EMS VCS3 to process the sound because he didn't have his ARP yet.) The ARP 2500's keyboard was duophonic (not polyphonic) and would only allow you to play 2 keys at a time.

Perhaps the best example of a recording that features the ARP 2500 is the intro to the Elton John song "Funeral for a Friend" from the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album. Check it out!

[JohnLRice]

@landmcgreggor2008 There is one currently for sale in the Netherlands! Do a Google search on 'weisma ARP 2500'

Best of luck!

[baward]

Check out Elton John's LP records from 1972-74 (Don't Shoot Me, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou); the synth stuff on there is Arp 2500, operated by Gus Dudgeon's engineer, David Hentshel.

[RMoribayashi]

@TomZentra I'm no engineer, but I borrowed the 2600 Owners Manual from a friend when I was a senior in HS because the local science museum had an electronic music exhibit full of ARP gear. After going over it a few times I was able to operate a 2600 cold, having never touched one before. Two months later I was working at the museum and on-call to that friend to demo the ARP lineup at the music store where he worked. That's when I switched from playing guitar to keyboards.

[TomZentra]

@RMoribayashi They weren't worth it then -- when the average annual salary was about $10,000 annually in the mid 70's -- and they aren't worth it now when annual salaries are several times that amount.

[TomZentra]

@RMoribayashi A manual covering analog synthesis will not teach one how to program a synth in a short period nor tell the owner how to apply knowledge of synthesis to make music.

1970's synth manuals were written for engineers. The level of technical detail, sometimes down to the circuit level, was overwhelming. A similar style of writing is in the original ARP manuals online. You could not buy a do-it-all book, "Make Music On The 2600" or any synth back then.

[RMoribayashi]

@TomZentra BTW The going rate for a new 2600 in the 1970's was around $1700 and could often be found for much less.

[RMoribayashi]

@TomZentra That is a myth. The ARP 2600 Owners Manual was an excellent book on analog synthesis. Written by Jim Michmerhuizen, it explained analog synthesis in clear and simple terms that could be applied to nearly any contemporary instrument. I learned on a 2600 and was able to operate a Moog modular in less than an hour despite their radical differences. Yes, plenty of musicians bought synths thinking they were "Plug and Play" and your average rocker was not known for reading the manual.

[Jauly]

@polyvoks really? ;)

[fishybishbash]

splendid - nice up