ARP Instruments
ARP Instruments, Inc. is a 1969 by A lan R ichard P earlman company, established to 1981 synthesizer produced. The trademark and patent rights were taken over in 1981 by CBS Musical Instruments .
ARP synthesizers shaped the music of the 1970s and early electronic music . Instruments from this company have been used on numerous music productions. The ARP Solina String Ensemble can be heard on Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd . However, an ARP Odyssey sounds for example, Chameleon and the entire album Thrust of Herbie Hancock .
Other musicians who worked with these synthesizers were, among others, Éliane Radigue , Pete Townshend (on the album Tommy ), Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake and Palmer (on Trilogy ), Tony Banks from Genesis (ARP Pro Soloist, ARP 2600), Billy Currie from Ultravox (ARP Odyssey), Jean Michel Jarre (ARP 2500, ARP 2600), Jimmy Page , Vangelis , Klaus Schulze , Depeche Mode (ARP 2600), Wolfgang Riechmann , Joe Zawinul (ARP 2600) and Isao Tomita .
Product highlights
- 1970 - ARP 2500
- 1971 - ARP 2600
- 1972 - ARP Odyssey
- 1972 - ARP Pro Soloist
- 1974 - ARP Solina String Ensemble
- 1975 - ARP Omni
- 1975 - ARP Axxe
- 1976 - ARP Sequencer
- 1977 - ARP Omni 2
- 1977 - ARP Pro / DGX
- 1978 - ARP Quadra
- 1980 - ARP Solus
In the late 1970s, the ARP Avatar was also a guitar synthesizer.
Web links
- Story on arpsynth.com
- The Rise and Fall of ARP Instruments ( April 1983 article, Keyboard Magazine)
- ARP Instruments at Synthmuseum.com (English)
- Retrosound - Arp Odyssey and Solina String Ensemble
Individual evidence
- ^ Tony Bacon, Paul Day: The Ultimate Guitar Book. Edited by Nigel Osborne, Dorling Kindersley, London / New York / Stuttgart 1991; Reprint 1993, ISBN 0-86318-640-8 , p. 185.