Trend price : 1500€
The Arp Odyssey 2800 is considered the portable version of the famous modular ARP 2600 designed by Alan Robert Pearlman
Overview
KEYBOARD (weight: 8 Kg) compact 37-keys. The main panel features 34 sliders, 3 pads PPC proportional pitch control and a 3-ways octave switch selector.
Back panel terminal connectors:
- control CV / gate
- main out
- CV pedal control input
- line input
Sound
monophonic analog synthesizer. A voice is composed by 2 VCO oscillators + 1 white or pink noise circuit.
Oscillator1: saw / square
Oscillator2: saw / square
Filter
4-poles lowpass and a simple non-resonant highpass.
LFO
1 main modulator (range from 0.2 to 20 Hz) and features 2 waveforms square and sine (plus sample and hold):
- EG AR gate (square)
- EG ADSR gate (square)
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VCO1 pitch (sine or square) summable with EG ADSR or S&H
- VCO2 pitch (sine or S&H)
summable with EG ADSR or S&H
- VCF cutoff (sine or
S&H) summable with S&H
- VCO1 pulse width (sine)
Envelope
EG1 ADSR
EG2 AD
Performance
- special duophonic mode (VCO1 lower priority)
- portamento time
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PPC is a kind of pitch bender
Maintenance
some common issues:
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third version have caps falling apart
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PPC rubber pads fails
- sliders are a bit short-life
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: routing / cv / smart
NOT : PPC quality / not so intuitive
"Odyssey is a bit different from classical synthesizer with its own logic of editing, not always intuitive but really powerful and flexible."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci