As part of YMO's setup during their 1980 world tour.

In the mid-1980s, while serving as keyboardist and producer for the Minneapolis-based art-rock band Chameleon, Yanni incorporated the "white" ARP 2800 Odyssey Rev1 into his extensive keyboard setup. This is evidenced by a post on Yanni’s official Facebook page.

Jonathan Snipes has an Odyssey Mark 1 and an Emax in this performance.

"Back then I was also using a Sequential Pro-One keyboard, a Roland RS-09 string synth, an ARP Odyssey and an ARP Axxe. And I had a Boss DR-55 and then an 808, obviously, when they first came out."

Used "on the early Steely Dan records", as stated by Fagen in this August 2006 Sound on Sound interview.

Donald Fagen's interest in the ins and outs of recording technology might have grown in recent years, but when it comes to the tools of his trade — keyboards — the opposite is true. "From an instrument point of view, I find that the technical developments in keyboards since the '70s are not worth talking about. I experimented with all sorts of synthesizers at the time. I recall that my first synthesizer was an ARP Odyssey, which I used on the early Steely Dan records. Somebody gave me a Synergy and that had some interesting sounds that I used on The Nightfly."

At 1:10 in this interview with Fagen for the documentary Down the Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story, which was bonus footage published on YouTube on October 5, 2012, he reveals that it was an "early" Odyssey (and, therefore, the Rev1) and that is was destroyed.

Well here's a synthesizer story to go along with my antipathy towards synthesizers. There was an early commercial synthesizer called the ARP Odyssey, which was a, uh... uh, it was kind of a useful thing, it uh... Early analog synthesizer. It looked like, it was this kind of square little board that had a lot of switches on it and... it wasn't very flexible. You could do a few things with it. You know, you had a little ring modulator and stuff like that and the problem with a lot of those early analog synthesizers is they go out of tune, like, especially after a few six months or seven months, the, I don't know, something about the oscillators or the resistors or something and they start to drift like, you'd be doing a take and five minutes into the take, it would be a little flat. You'd have to retune and if after you'd had it for a year, like after five seconds they'd start to drift, you know, and I got so frustrated with this ARP Odyssey that I... You know, it's really into what I was doing, you know when you're doing a take, you're concentrating, and this started to happen so that, you know, I just, you know, took the thing and smashed it. You know, my rage got the better of me and then my partner started making suggestions as to what else we might do to the ARP Odyssey and, you know, we ended up getting lighter fluid and, you know, we set it on fire, we deface it in any other number of ways and then we went out on the balcony of the ABC Dunhill Records and just dropped it off the balcony and, um... the guy who ran the studio thought it was so funny that he had it framed and just like, it looked like artwork because it was essentially a destroyed musical instrument and he framed it and put it up in a studio hall there for everybody to laught at. [laughs]

Florian Schneider can be seen playing his White Face ARP Odyssey at 05:13 and 06:57 in the video.

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In this still of an Instagram story posted on August 31st 2023 on the White Denim Insta account we see a "black face" version of this ARP synth. Story on Youtube https://youtube.com/shorts/SbJRff0ZjKo?feature=shared

As already mentioned, classically-trained Billy Currie has been tickling the ivories for Ultravox since day one, and even their earliest recordings are characterised by his willingness to experiment with new sound textures and new methods of manipulating them from the keyboard. However, he remains best remembered for his raunchy lead-line synth sound, something he discovered quite by accident, it seems.

'Well, I got an ARP Odyssey for the first album back in '77, and I just stumbled on the lead sound by sticking it through a flanger. I used it a lot in the early days, and carried on using it on later records because it went so well with that particular rhythm guitar sound Midge gets.

• EMM Oct. 1984

The ARP Odyssey is listed on the Space Machine album 2 and can be seen in the album photos

Arp Odyssey (white) is included in kit list; the Mark I Odyssey was the only version available in white.

Listed on the back cover of Witchazel and visible in this photo used for the back cover of Music for Insomniacs and the back cover of Music for Insomniacs Part IV. It is also mentioned in this December 2020 Sound on Sound interview.

Among Berry’s workhorse synths are his Minimoogs, Korg MS‑20, Prophet 6, ARP Odyssey and Solina, and Roland Jupiter‑4. Meanwhile, in the newer analogue synth department, he’s the proud owner of both Korg’s ARP 2600 FS and KMR’s Antonus 2600, along with the Arturia MatrixBrute. His latest acquisition is a Roland Jupiter‑X, which he clearly loves.