BOOcast - Synth of the Month: Korg ARP 2600
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2024
- This segment comes from BOO-cast #20 (bit.ly/boocast20). BOO-cast is a monthly livestream about being in a DIY synthpop band. We answer your questions, play songs, meet guests, talk synths and share stories.
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R.I.P. Dennis Colin. Actual designer of the ARP 2600.
Rest in peace indeed. Apologies for not mentioning Dennis, but it's really intended as a synth demo, and there's really no sense in trying to compete with Alex Ball's Electromotive film, because it's perfect.
The bass sounds you can get from an ARP 2600 are awesome.
Love your methodical approach in this series of videos, and the very affable way you present them.
- I bought one when they came out for around £1,600, easily one of my best purchases ever, even at that price,
- now they're going for £1,100, new, it's a no brainer purchase, IMO.
- love to ALL, feel no hate
Thank you so much, and yes, I think it's pretty obvious that I need to get one of these now. Possibly the greatest synth ever made. Saving as I type this!
Man, that default patching makes the computery beep-boops so simple!
I tried to set that up in VCVrack a few months ago and there was sooo much faffing-about, making sure the LFO clocking the sample and hold was right, and also modulating the sounds themselves, and... as you point out all of that wonderful modulation is just built-in by default on the 2600.
More and more I notice a lot of people who cite it as their favourite do so mostly because of how it encourages them to create cool patches, with amazing modulation options done really quickly. And that's super-valid, this was one of the (if not the?) first semi-modular systems so they clearly put a LOT of thought behind the default patches behind the panels.
Yes, I think it was the first semi-modular design, and was really well thought out. Despite its daunting face, it really inspires, as you say, to go a bit beyond the ordinary!
Great vid.... I love this synth. It's sounds so good and having it's own reverb and input for other things is really cool...
I really love this vid. I picked up a 2600m when KorgUSA had them on sale on Reverb. Your vid defintiely gave me some more experiments ot try with it...
Ah, that's wonderful to hear! I'm a little sad to be saying goodbye to it, as it's on loan. I might need to do some selling to raise some cash if the 2600 shaped gap in my life is too much to bear!
This sounds like a proper synth. The spring reverb is very wide - is it like that for real?
Yes indeed, there's one spring for left, and one for right, and there's no other FX processing on this video, left and right into the H6, that's it.
@@BOOelectric you have a great skill in getting deep sounds out of all these synths. I thought my GAS was under control before I watched this
Oops! Sorry!
@@BOOelectric I believe there is only one spring but the left and right reverb channels are phase inverted from one another, so that is why it sounds so extremely wide.
@@Thoracius Ahh!! Thank you! That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the correction!