ARP 2600 Modular Synthesizer

deadmau5 posted a picture of the synthesizer on Instagram and says "And in the spirit of synth porn... ;)"

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "There are fewer keyboards on Drones than on previous albums, and the ones we did use are the usual suspects, like the Buchla 200e, ARP 2600, Korg MS20, Prophet 5 and Moog Voyager."

"My nice ARP 2600, I'm really, really happy. I bought it in L.A. and it was really difficult getting it here, with almost going to prison, but it worked. It works with all the filters and everything work really well. To get a sequence out of it I have meshed it up with an MFB Urzerg."

Rick Smith listed the ARP 2600 as one of the most important pieces of gear in Underworld's studio in this Sound On Sound interview.

The Crystal Method posted a picture on Instagram featuring the ARP 2600 with the caption, "Caught in the Arp - Crazy analog sounds in the making"

According to thewho.net website, Townshend used ARP 2600 synth for "Relay".

Depeche Mode's engineer Gareth Jones says Depeche Mode used the ARP 2600 for recording People are People "Everything was layered one instrument at a time," explains Jones. "Because of our relatively limited resources and because we couldn't save any of the analogue synths, we didn't have the whole song playing at the same time. It was very different to how we work now. We had the demo, so we knew where the song was going, and then we'd record something — for instance, guide drums, followed by a guide bass from something like a Minimoog, then a rhythm sequence from a triggered ARP sequencer running an ARP 2600, and then maybe something else.

BT talks about ownership and usage of his ARP 2600 modular synth, which was once owned by Pink Floyd, in this video.

At the 0:19 mark of this video of Paul Hartnoll in his studio, you can see his ARP 2600 Modular Synthesizer (with an Orbital sticker on the casing for good measure).

I did the Moog Fest last year and as part payment for the gig they give you a great deal on gear. So, I bought a couple of racks, Moogerfooger pedals, an old Taurus II which is my absolute favorite. I’ve got one of the first ARP 2600.

The item can be seen 1:33 into this video.

During this interview from RA the interviewer asks:"What about the ARP2600? Marc Houle:"When I got it, it didn't really work at all. You'd put some knobs up, and it'd just start squelching. But after getting it repaired a few times and slowly figuring it out better, I started to get some nice sounds out of it. It's a nice synth, and it's one of the most important synths in music next to the Minimoog I think. " And there is a picture showing his ARP2600

[This image](https://www.instagram.com/p/BCc5kHWQRsn/?taken-by=underworld) posted to Underworld's Instagram page shows Smith's ARP 2600.

Ozzy states in his [autobiography](https://books.google.com/books?id=yNzCgAEkW8cC&pg=PT112&lpg=PT112&dq=ozzy+osbourne+arp+2600&source=bl&ots=KjyasAVD3x&sig=5NGTDNVZ16ITKsOVk31v_Ci21-g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LJA1VcbcJ8n_yQTsloGoCA&ved=0CFsQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=ozzy%20osbourne%20arp%202600&f=false) that he owns an ARP 2600 Modular Synthesizer.

This item is listed as number 6 down for synths used by PSB.

"Basically everything we’ve used we practically still have here. So it’s a list too long to go into. There is a wall alone that is the orginal setup of Skinny Puppy, based around a pair of Roland TR-808’s, Roland TR-909 with trigs going to many differnat devices including Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100m, ElectroComp Eml 101, Korg SQ-10, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-10, ARP 2500 and ARP 2600."

He used it throughout the 70's. Like in the album Standing Rock and Frankenstein. He has been using it as a keytar ever since it came out. Nowadays he uses a Roland keyboard.

Vince Clarke And The Temple of Synth - Synthopia List

ARP 2600 is included in the list of synths at Daniel Miller's home studio.

"When I got there, I said, 'Do you use this?' 'No!' 'Can I try it? If I like it, I'll buy it.' 'Sure.' It was an ARP 2600!"

This forum post lists the various keyboards that Richard Tandy used on all the ELO albums. The ARP 2600 is among the list

Concerning the new album Dame Fortune, Ramble mentions this: > "The CS-80 is on there, I love that thing, the ARP 2600 is in there, and then there are some odds and ends, but that’s kind of the meat and potatoes of it."

"About those synths: “In addition to a Fender Rhodes, there was the [Access] Virus, the Moog Little Phatty, and the ARP 2600. Those were the center points, because you could get poly synthesizer stuff from the Virus, and then get really great, thick, monophonic stuff from the ARP. Then the Little Phatty, through the tape delay, and all this really nice, mushy, organic processing."

"I wasn't kidding when I said he likes electronic music!" exclaims Alessandro Cortini, about his cat who can be seen next to an ARP 2600 in this Instagram video clip.

"I love the Yamaha TX7, the Casio CZ-101, the ARP 2600, Ensoniq Mirage, Roland MKS-50, and the EMS VCS3. I like to have them around mainly for inspiration. In my experience, turning away and just focusing on a different object in front of you can yield good results."

Tom Rowlands, of Chemical Brothers fame, working in his studio. Just check out the complete list of this synthesizer nerd … an instant daydream … and also explains the original sounds on their records!

During a studio tour with Future Music Magazine, Steve Mac says [@ 03:00] about his ARP 2600: "ARP 2600, another classic synthesizer. I love the ARP 2600. It's got such a big sound and it's one of those things you can just keep plugging away at and get unexpected sounds. It's one of those things where you can get a bit carried away with it and just sit there hours on end. It's also got it's own spring reverb which is a really, really good part of this machine."

"Nothing like a cranked Marshall and raw synth leads from an Arp 2600 modular synth. Of course, Dennis DeYoung loved the sound of these, but hated the hassle of using the patch cords with no patch preset memory."

"We use an API 1608 desk, various compressors like the Universal Audio 1176s and the blue DBX 160 series. I still prefer my old Lexicon 480L to the digital plug-ins. The latest version of Pro Tools is great to have, because it is very easy to combine all the old gear with that. In ATR, we use the Roland TR-909 as the main drum machine; it’s part of the band’s sound, really. Then we still use the old Akais for ATR, like the S1100 or the S6000 or the MPC 2000XL. They are also part of the band’s identity in a way. Especially when you apply distortion. We also have a lot of modular synths, from the Metasonix Wretchmachine, the ARP 2600, Analogue Solutions Vostok, the Sherman Quad Filterbank and the Moog Voyager with all the external CV gate stuff. We find the Voyager better suited for ATR. My Minimoog just sounds too retro. I love the machine, as so many others (my Korg Trident, Roland Jupiter 8 etc...) but ATR has a certain sound that we stick to. I use all that other stuff more for the Alec Empire solo works. The Atari 1040ST is still the main sequencer for everything. Pro Tools is slaved to that."

In this interview with Muscradar, Chicane says "In terms of synths, I naturally tend to gravitate towards software versions of classic gear like the ARP 2600, the 101 and the Prophet, because I'm used to how they work and I know what sort of sounds they're capable of."

This wonderfully detailed photo from the Ommadawn recordings sessions show all the instruments that Oldfield played on the album (and there are most likely others not shown as well). The labelling is quite obvious, but the 2600 is against the right wall, in front of the tubular bells.

Tony Banks can be seen with his ARP 2600 in this photo.

Used during the production of Guster's eighth album. Featured in this Instagram post.

"Signal path was into the Arp 2600, out of that into a big rack of Surge gear, then a line to the floor so I could use whatever pedals I wanted, then a [TC Fireworks](http://equipboard.com/items/tc-electronic-fireworx-multi-effect-processor) unit, then digital into the Tascam D88." - A.J. Dunning from [*Guitar.com*](http://guitar.com/articles/verve-pipe-beatin-odds).

Nic is using an ARP 2600 in this image.

Bon sites this Modular when Daniel Miller lend them his ARP 2600

TPS have two ARP 2600s

The back of the album cover from the album Sunshine (1978) shows a great diversity of Herbies synths collection

Short studioshot from his youtube channel.

According to a list of equipment which is used in his studio, Crowdspacer, Joakim is also a user of ARP 2600.

In this photo, Jean-Michel Jarre is standing amongst his large collection of synthesizers, including the ARP 2600 directly behind him.

Among the artists listed there Wonder

Info fom the 1993 Album Cover . air liquide - air liquide . (1993 blue 006) cd Arp 2600 EML Electro comp 101/EML 400 EMS VCS 3/ Vocoder 3000/ Hifli E-mu Emulator 1/ Modular/ SP 1200 Korg MSM/ PS 3100/ PS 3300 Moog 55/ adv. Memory Moog/ Prodigy Oberheim SEM/ SEM 4 Voice/ DMX/ Matrix12 OSCar Rhodes Chroma RMI Keyboard Computer II Roland System 700/ System 100M/ SH101/ JD800/ TR909/ TR808/ TR727/ TR606/TB303 (3x)/ SH09/ SH5/ MKS7/ MKS30/ MKS50/ MKS80/ S750/ SVC350/ SPV350/ JX3P/ Jupiter 8 RSF Kobol Exp.II SCi Prophet10/ P600/ Pro One/ DrumTraks Steiner Parker Modular/ Synthecon Synthanorma Octavfilter Synergy II+ Synton Syrinx Yamaha CS 30L/ CS 15/ CS 80

There is an ARP 2600 in the background of the studio photo and it is referenced in the caption

In [this interview](http://www.electricity-club.co.uk/html/int_morris.html) with Stephen Morris of Joy Division/New Order, he explains the studio setup going into the recording of Joy Division's album *Closer.* "We had Martin's ARP2600 and the sequencer that goes with it on 'The Eternal,' there's a fuck up in the middle of it and you couldn't drop in, so we left it and it sounds like I've done it but [it] was a machine."

Other equipment used by the band over the years includes. This is unconfirmed so deny this submission for now.

is a studio equipment of liam...i get it on Facebook page of prodigy!

When the coming out of the one-oscillator Sputink was anounced it was the first time Joe Zawinul ever heard about a synthesizer. In 1971 Roger Powell who was with ARP instruments invited him to try the new ARP 2600. In Joe's own words: "I was knocked out. Arps had patchcords, too, but with a keyboard, and with this keyboard I did some memorable recordings, like ‘Black Market.’ The Arp got some nice sounds. Some very human sounds" - The Wire, September 11, 2007 by Howard Mandel Back in 1975 Joe explained in an interview why he preferred the 2600 monophonic synth to the Minimoog: "I like the Arp because of what I can do with it. I hear the Moog, it's immediately the Moog. With the Arp I can do things that will fool the heck out of you. I can hide between voices, I can do all kinds of things. To me it's a much more natural sound. The variety of colors is greater, too. Woodwind sounds... if you have the right hearing, you can really get it. But it takes time and work..." During the Weather Report era he toured the world with his two 2600s which used extensively on Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinnin', Black Market and Heavy Weather. “I have my own ‘magic book’ of sounds I’ve created on the 2600. Melody lines from 'Black Market', 'Scarlet Woman', lots of music and sound effects from other albums I’ve done. I tape some nice stuff just playing around. With the 2600, you never have to listen to the same sound twice, if you don’t want to.” - ARP's advertising literature

in the picture you see a member with an arp 2600

Uses a Moog filter version.

“There are very few instruments that are so inviting and it’s quite comprehensive; you can pretty much do anything you want. In fact, I did the Inspector Norse EP just through that synth. You can make simple bread and butter sounds really easily, like spaced-out BBC-style sound effects.”

GIORGIO MORODER RARE SYNTHESIZER COLLECTION US sample CD manufacturers Hollywood Edge produce a sample CD featuring Moroder's favourite synths. Giorgio Moroder Rare Synthesizer Collection contains 970 patches from vintage synths including the OSC OSCar, Korg Mono/Poly, Sequential Prophet 5, ARP 2600, Moog modular, Multimoog, TB303, Oberheim 4-voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and Juno 60, Moog Taurus, PPG 2.3, and the Buchla. It's available on CD-ROM in Akai, SampleCell, and Ensoniq formats. If you're interested, Time & Space, the UK distributors for Hollywood Edge, should be able to get hold of it for you, though it's not an item they carry in stock. Derek Johnson

This video, shot in Adrian's private studio, shows most of his instruments and gear, including the ARP 2600 Modular Synthesizer

"Mid '70's" Blackface @ 5:29. Video interview from inside Soulwax's studio in Ghent, Belgium.

Emperor Machine takes future music on a studio tour

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

As much as she enjoys shiny new gear, Allien would be at a loss without her vintage synths. For Thrills, she employed her trusty Roland TR-808 drum machine and SH-101 analog synth along with Clavia Nord Lead and Nord Modular synths; a Midas mixer; Apple Logic Pro; and her prized piece, the ARP 2600. “Turning wheels and pressing buttons, all [my] instruments sound deep and dark in my ears,” she says. “The ARP is perfect for that! And the ARP 2600 is the last synth I've bought — I saw it in Japan first and bought it finally on eBay. But I was looking a long time for it.”

Albums which use ARP 2600 : • Oxygene > Oxygene Part 1 > Oxygene Part 6 Seagull (by Johan Schurer) • Equinoxe > Equinoxe Part 5 > Equinoxe Part 6 > Equinoxe Part 7 • Magnetic fields • The concerts in China • Music for supermarket • Zoolook • Rendez-vous > Premier Rendez-vous / First Rendez-vous > Second Rendez-vous / Second Rendez-vous > Quatrième Rendez-vous / Fourth Rendez-vous > Cinquième Rendez-vous / Fifth Rendez-vous > Moon Machine (unreleased title) • Houston/Lyon • Revolutions • Waiting for Cousteau • Chronologie • Oxygene 7-13 • Metamorphoses

At 3:34, an Arp 2600 can be seen to the right.

Is Modular an area you'd like to explore? "I'm not getting into that. The closest thing I've got to modular, or semi-modular, is the Korg MS20 and the ARP 2600 - but that's how it's going to stay. Modular doesn't serve a big purpose for the music I'm making because it's not really blippy kind of stuff, but it's nice to have those machines and get some weird sequences out of them."

Among the gear in this picture is a System 100, an Arp 2600, and an Arp Sequencer.

,,,,aktuelle Produktion: der „FRAKTUS“ Film über die Band die Techno erfunden hat,,,,,, ,,,,,mit Heinz Strunk, Rocko Schamoni, Jaques Palminger,,etc Analog Aufnahmen mit Korg MS10, 20, 50, SQ10, Polysix, Minimoog, ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter 6, JX3P, Juno 60, CR-78, SH-09, System 100 Sequencer,PPG Modular 300, Russian Polyvoks, etcetc,,,

Tara pictured on stage with Arp 2600.

According to the "equipment list" found on Church Studios, owned by Epworth, one of the things listed is the ARP 2600 modular synth.

Features in his New York Studio as of 2014

KURT JAMMING WITH AN ARP 2600...

On the picture you can see his Arp 2600 Modular Synthesizer. The picture is of his Facebook account.

"We've started to use the 2600 for synthesized drums too after we read about Vince Clarke making his own! And we use the old Pearl Syncussion unit too: we like sampling and layering sounds from that. You have to get a uniqueness to drums, 'cos that's something that always sounds the same on dance records."

as listed by tim simenon used for ULTRA lp of DEPECHE MODE

Nothing was said by them.. so,??

'I kicked over the ARP 2600 in the rehearsal room, and said ‘’I’m leaving if you want to talk to me I’ll be in the pub next door’’ I don’t think anyone came to reason with me' Ann Shenton speaking here... http://www.localsuicide.com/interview-ann-shenton-add-n-to-x/

Behind Mark’s writing computer is the infamous Wall of Synths Museum. The wall has undergone a recent transformation, and Mark has jumped oscillator first back into the world of analogue. He just took ownership of a new Buchla, a Verbos, a CMS, a CMS repaired Arp 2600, a Roger Arrick Dot Com system, and a few other modules as well. It’s truly a synth geek’s heaven, and growing every week!

"But I've worked with sequencers since the day they first came out, so all these things are nothing compared with the problems I used to have. Years ago, even just a simple thing like a synthesizer going out of tune was a major headache in the studio. I've worked with every conceivable computer programmed sequencer - from the Roland CSQ-100, to the Prophet switch type, to the ARP ones that had the sixteen click thing that you'd line the notes up with. I've worked with an ARP 2600 synth also - in fact, I've just bought an ARP 1600 which I'm very pleased to have as part of my set-up here. But people just make such a big deal out of MIDI and sequencing."