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In 1974 ARP decided to enlarge its target audience: ARP2600, PRO-Soloist and of course Odyssey were intended for the professional market segment, but there were no models for home, church and educational institutions. And ARP decided not to reinvent the...
Pro-Soloist was introduced in 1972 as an improved replacement for ARP Soloist, later (in 1977) it was replaced by Pro-DGX. The purpose of the instrument has remained unchanged: it must complement the main polyphonic synthesizer to create solo parts. The...
After the release of Minimoog it became clear that the synthesizer is not a huge cabinet you should drag to rehearsals but rather a small and elegant device. And ARP (and at that time the synthesizer market was reined over only by Moog and ARP) had to...
Solina String Synthesizer is a hybrid of two synthesizers which combined String Ensemble and Explorer in one case. This combination made it possible to create a sufficiently versatile instrument in which Ensemble's polyphonic sound can be combined with...
The idea of creating a universal synthesizer - the first attempt was Solina String Synthesizer - didn’t leave the developers of ARP. The new incarnation was Omni, which operated as three independent synthesizers simultaneously. For the user quite few...
Pro/DGX is the third generation of Soloist synthesizers. Almost the same as Pro-Soloist, although it got a brighter face and the preset switches were replaced with buttons. The main difference from previous versions is in the filter section. The first...
Solus is an instrument aimed at touring musicians, for situations where every centimeter is important, and a rigid case must protect the content reliably. The synthesizer is assembled in a wooden housing with a convenient handle for transportation. The...
Quadra - another successful "chimera" by ARP, which can be safely included in the top 100 analog synthesizers. This time four instruments fit one housing at once, which is obvious thanks to its name. Polyphonic section of strings, monophonic bass and a...
In 1977 ARP released a new version of its most successful synthesizer - the Omni Mk2 - on the synthesizer market. Inside the synthesizer, everything remained almost unchanged, but outside it got a new branded color scheme "orange + black" and a...
Explorer I is a small preset monophonic analog synthesizer, a very "close relative" to PRO-Soloist, but has a very important difference - manual mode. The unit contains factory presets: flute, trumpet, clarinet, strings, pulsar and lunar. In the manual...
