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...
Soloist, as the name implies, was intended for the performance of solo parts and should be placed on top of the main instrument. This concept conditioned the appearance of the instrument: the keys for switching presets are below the keyboard, and when...
The expansion module, designed to function together with the "older brothers". It doesn’t have its own keyboard, VCF, VCA, on board - only one VCO and LFO. According to the manufacturer's idea, this module should be integrated with, for example, ARP Axxe...
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...
In 1975 ARP decided to add to the list of their products a portable and (which is important) inexpensive instrument that can satisfy the demands of professional musicians at the same time. The result of the research was Axxe – a monophonic Odyssey. The...
A kind of keyboardless modification of ARP Odyssey, designed to function with a guitar. This is one of the first guitar synthesizers (a guitar-driven synthesizer would be more correct) and one of the greatest failures in the history of ARP. The idea was...
Prophet T8 is an 8-voice analog synthesizer with digital microprocessor control. This model hasn’t lost its relevance even now (2016), as it has all the necessary features: Full MIDI support Dynamic keyboard with aftertouch The ability of keyboard split...
Another masterpiece made by Dave Smith and John Bowen. The first synthesizer on the market featuring MIDI support. Prophet-600 is an analog synthesizer with microprocessor control, has 6-voice polyphony. Each voice contains two voltage controlled...
In 1978 in order to consolidate the company’s position on the market Sequential Circuits released Prophet-10. Basically the synthesizer is two combined Prophet-5 units. The architecture of the synthesizer is not changed at all, the only difference is in...
Prophet 5 is a legend that can surely be added to the list of "top 5 analog synthesizers of all time". Prophet-5 became the most popular professional synthesizer of the late 1970s - early 1980s, and largely influenced the sound of pop music of that...
