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...