How to Play the ARP Odessey Synthesizer on Analog Keyboards

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My name is Dan Rapport. Today we are going to be talking about analog synthesizers. So here we have an Arp Odyssey synthesizer. This is a vintage synthesizer unlike the Moog Voyager and it is completely analog. It has no digital interface, no presets or anything like that, but as you can see, and I will go through it, it has pretty much all the same modules as the Moog Voyager and in fact when this was invented it was designed to compete with the original mini Moog model D. So we have two voltage controlled oscillators as opposed to three, in the Moog voyager. We do have a stand alone low frequency oscillator LFO section and we also have a few extra things, here is a glide control, which it is called portamento here, the pitch bend is now a knob as opposed to a wheel and unfortunately there is no modulation wheel or mod wheel like the Moog, but it does have a sample and hold mixture and it has got the audio mixer section of the Moog here and in this case there are sliders as opposed to knobs. And it has also got the ADSR envelope generators or the VCAs (The Voltage Controlled Amplifier) and in this case it has two, but you do not have control over the ADSR of the filter. So it is slightly different but you can tell it has got some similar sounds and I will just play a little bit and you guys can take and listen. And here is an octave switch transpose. You may notice here that I am really getting two voices at once. This is probably more apparent if I take the oscillator sync off. The Arp Odyssey was one of the few synths in it’s day to be able to be not polyphonic but duo-phonic, and they are able to do it through a voltage dividing circuit, so you know it could have a slightly different sound than the mini Moog because of that, but a really fairly similar sound and completely analog.

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