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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by cicero on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:09AM (#18844813)
Christmas 1976 my parents gave me an Arp Axxe, which was a simpler, less-expensive version of the much more famous Odyssey [1]. It was great for a kid to learn about electronic music because the controls were laid out to where you could visualize the signal flow. It also came with a great textbook. I learned a lot about sound and analog signal processing as well as had a lot of fun. May Mr. Pearlman rest in peace.

1: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/02/17/korg-is-bringin...

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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by dep_b on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:37AM (#18845956)
"less-expensive" as in still a hell of a christmas gift for almost anybody!
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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by cicero on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:17PM (#18852507)
Yes, it was. I don't know what happened that year, if my dad got a promotion, won the lottery (just kidding, there was no lottery then), or what, but we hadn't had a Christmas like that before.
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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by hahamrfunnyguy on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:03AM (#18845648)
The Axxe was almost my first synth. When I first got into synths in the mid 90's, I was looking for a starter synth. The music store had an Axxe for $150 and a Korg Poly 800 for $80. I ultimately went with the Poly 800, but looking back it would have been pretty cool to have the Axxe!
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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by timc3 on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:09PM (#18847118)
Awesome parents.
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Re:ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died by cicero on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:17PM (#18852511)
Yes they were. Thanks.
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