I owned every Arp piece of equipment in the 70s.... including the awful Avatar. Wait, I didn't own a 2500. So, I owned all of them except one. Including oddball stuff like the Axxe and Little Brother.
I also saw the Centaur demoed at Namm in 75 or so. It was GIGANTIC, but basically nothing new under the hood compared to what was already available. Although it promised polyphony. Arp had the Centaur in the middle of their booth, surrounded by velvet ropes. I don't remember that it was ever released.
I had a deposit on the Chroma and it wasn't even pitched with a release date yet. I only knew about it because I was an Arp dealer. I did buy it and the expander later on when CBS finally released it.
Towards the end of Arp's days, you could UPS your Odyssey etc to the factory and have them add all sorts of extra switching, routing stuff. I don't remember everything I added, but I spent a ton on the mods... which were always very cool. Arp used to have a little menu brochure like a restaurant menu, listing all the mods you could have hard-wired into your Odyssey.
When midi was invented, I at least could then use the Avatar as basically an "Odyssey" sound module. Thanks to a cv/gate/trigger box JL Cooper was building out of their tiny LA location at the time.
I liked all the "orange" era Arp stuff. I sold (and played) bazillions of Omnis.... those were so useful. But I really loved the orange Odyssey. What a workhorse.
And as mentioned in articles, the Arp stuff stayed in tune really well. Unlike the Moog stuff that was being dumped into our stores (what was the blue plastic one circa 74?... that one would wail out of tune right there while you held a key down).
Anyway, I'm jazzed about the Oddity2. In a sense, with its polyphony capability, it "sort" of makes it a Centaur..... or maybe even a Chroma when you think about it.
I'm also now seeing that Korg is bringing out new Odyssey hardware. And David Friend is involved OMG! Ha. By my calculation, we're going to see brand new orange and black Odyssey's about 11 weeks from now at Namm. Unless I missed something and they're already released (which could be).
I liked the Arp era. I was a little bummed at their implosion in 1980 or whenever it was. It's good to see that they live on with stuff like the Oddity and Oddity2.
I'm really jazzed to see what the new hardware will be like
I also saw the Centaur demoed at Namm in 75 or so. It was GIGANTIC, but basically nothing new under the hood compared to what was already available. Although it promised polyphony. Arp had the Centaur in the middle of their booth, surrounded by velvet ropes. I don't remember that it was ever released.
I had a deposit on the Chroma and it wasn't even pitched with a release date yet. I only knew about it because I was an Arp dealer. I did buy it and the expander later on when CBS finally released it.
Towards the end of Arp's days, you could UPS your Odyssey etc to the factory and have them add all sorts of extra switching, routing stuff. I don't remember everything I added, but I spent a ton on the mods... which were always very cool. Arp used to have a little menu brochure like a restaurant menu, listing all the mods you could have hard-wired into your Odyssey.
When midi was invented, I at least could then use the Avatar as basically an "Odyssey" sound module. Thanks to a cv/gate/trigger box JL Cooper was building out of their tiny LA location at the time.
I liked all the "orange" era Arp stuff. I sold (and played) bazillions of Omnis.... those were so useful. But I really loved the orange Odyssey. What a workhorse.
And as mentioned in articles, the Arp stuff stayed in tune really well. Unlike the Moog stuff that was being dumped into our stores (what was the blue plastic one circa 74?... that one would wail out of tune right there while you held a key down).
Anyway, I'm jazzed about the Oddity2. In a sense, with its polyphony capability, it "sort" of makes it a Centaur..... or maybe even a Chroma when you think about it.
I'm also now seeing that Korg is bringing out new Odyssey hardware. And David Friend is involved OMG! Ha. By my calculation, we're going to see brand new orange and black Odyssey's about 11 weeks from now at Namm. Unless I missed something and they're already released (which could be).
I liked the Arp era. I was a little bummed at their implosion in 1980 or whenever it was. It's good to see that they live on with stuff like the Oddity and Oddity2.
I'm really jazzed to see what the new hardware will be like
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Arp Instruments
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