![]() ![]() The sound patches that were created could not be stored in it's memory - so any patches that you programmed would have to be written down on data sheets to remember all the settings. The ARP2600 was a monophonic synth - so you could only play one note at a time. ![]() Operationally, the ARP 2600 was integrated, using internally-wired default signal paths that made it possible to create a wide range of keyboard patches by simply opening up slide attenuators. Functionally, the ARP 2600 was completely modular: any signal output could be routed to any signal input, with a patch cord. The ARP2600 design combined modular synthesis and realtime performance. Changes in circuitry and panel lettering provided at least three different grey panel models. The mid-production grey 2600 models featured many changes amongst themselves. Finally, in order to fit in with the black/orange theme of ARP's other synthesizers, the ARP 2600s were manufactured with orange labels over a black aluminum panel. This led to legal battles between Moog and ARP which forced ARP to design their own filter for their next version. 25) and they were mostly built in a garage! The later "grey" ARP 2600s, were built in a vinyl covered wood case and contained an imitation of Bob Moog's famous 4-pole "ladder" filter. The first, dubbed the "Blue Marvin", was named after ARP's then CFO Marvin Cohen. In the eleven years between 19 ARP released three versions of the 2600. Thanks to Edgar and the ARP us keyboard players where now free to run around the stage just like our guitar playing mates. As far as I know that's the first time anyone did that - so I guess that was the birth of the keyboard strap on controller. ![]() Who could forget Edgar Winter's "Frakenstein" where he actually strapped the ARP's keyboard around his neck and played it like a guitar player when performing live. What would Steve Wonder's "Innervisions" have sounded like? What about The Who's classic "Who's Next" or Weather Report's "Birdland" - the big hit from their amazing "Heavy Weather" album. Pearlman had not released the ARP2600 in 1970. You wonder what the history of pop music would have been like if Alan R. ![]()
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