Tips for Using the ARP String Ensemble Polyphonic Synthesizer

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My name is Dan Rapport. Today we are going to be talking about analog synthesizers. One more synthesizer we can talk about really quickly is the venerable Arp String Ensemble, which was an early polyphonic synthesizer. Unlike the Juno-6, it did not feature a separate oscillator for each voice; it featured one audio oscillator in a divide down circuitry, which was invented for early combo organ such as the Farfisa and the box combo organs. It has got a very classic sound. Its base tones can be controlled by monophonic synthesizer as well, which gives it a little extra sound and it was also patterned early version of the Chorus circuit found in the Juno-6 was found in this keyboard, as you can see it is pretty old, pretty battle-scarred. Here we have crescendo and sustained length, really all that was is attack and release assuming maybe they use those names to make it sound more orchestral since it is the String Ensemble and here is an example of what it sounds like. As you can see I can play as many notes as I want since we are not limited to four or six voices, as in the case of Juno synths of the divide-down circuitry.

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