In 1978, Sequential Circuits company released Prophet-5, which immediately became incredibly popular due to the ability to save all the parameters of the synthesizer in the presets. Tom Oberheim responded with OB-X. The synthesizer has a hybrid...
In the early 80's all serious synthesizer manufacturers had to try hard to stay on the market after the release of the Prophet-5 synthesizer. The first attempt to grab his bite of the niche was made by Oberheim when he launched OB-X synthesizer, the...
The Behringer Odyssey is an analog synthesizer re-creation of the classic ARP Odyssey synthesizer. It features two VCOs with saw, triangle, and square waveforms, a 24 dB/octave low-pass filter, an ADSR envelope, and a noise generator. It also has a built-in arpeggiator, delay, and chorus effects.
The idea of creating a universal synthesizer - the first attempt was Solina String Synthesizer - didn’t leave the developers of ARP. The new incarnation was Omni, which operated as three independent synthesizers simultaneously. For the user quite few...
In 1977 ARP released a new version of its most successful synthesizer - the Omni Mk2 - on the synthesizer market. Inside the synthesizer, everything remained almost unchanged, but outside it got a new branded color scheme "orange + black" and a...