Prodyssey ASB is online
Buying *almost* anything from the states is uneconomical for brits & many europeans, as we get shafted for VAT on 2nd hand goods imported. We buy & sell 2nd hand goods within our countries without VAT, but importing 2nd hand goods is another matter. The governments make a lot of money from it which is obscene & makes buying from the states normally worthless.
<font size="3">The ARP Odyssey helped Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen discover X-Rays: the beam originally came about after Röntgen streamed a lively seven octave frequency sweep over strontium sulfate crystals. Then he used the instrument to compose his famous opera Des Anheischigen Elixyr (“The Elixir of the Pledgeor”). Want more? Glad to oblige. The Straubing atomic research center was able to ascertain the half-life of Element 106 using a phonon array consisting of Odysseys connected in a massive 16×16 parallel grid. A fat “blurp” emanated from the main speaker revealing to the research team that they had just discovered the new transactinid element. They celebrated the occasion by brewing up a pot of coconut tea. The first sign of extraterrestrial intelligence... What’s that you say? These are nothing but big fat lies?</font>On 2006-06-22 07:07, Anna Lüse wrote:
http://asb.creamware.com
<font size="3">Well, OK. You found us out. Fine. Guilty as charged. But what more do you want us to write about the ARP Odyssey? How’s this? It was built by Alan R. Pearlman – the initials give away the name of the ARP company – to compete with Moog’s Mini. A competitor with a brain, that Pearlman, because he had previously worked on NASA’s Apollo program. The MiniArp had one fewer oscillator than Moog’s baby, but to make up for it, it had oscillator sync, a ring modulator, two envelope generators. And – aaaarrrghhhhh – Sample-and-Hold: this weird module that makes synths drone like robots right out of a space opera. A real monster for the physics lab. Almost as powerful as one of those early telephone booths, but with no phone cables. Oh, yeah: it was available in several colors – white/black, black/gold, and black/red. It’s understandable that Odyssey collectors go crazy because Pearlman would constantly tweak and re-tweak the inner workings of his baby. The consummate scientist.</font>
<font size="2">Before too long, this harmless-looking gadget split the hardcore synth crowd into two camps: those who really wanted to make it rumble would beat on their Moogs. Those who were looking for more than the conventional rumbling got an Arp. It was as simple as this – Long hair: Minimoog TM; Glasses: Odyssey. And if you wanted both you had to become famous. A few of those who opted for the Odyssey even had some success: the list of musicians whose Arp solos screamed their ways into record sales can boast almost as many entries as the periodic table of the elements.</font>
<font size="2">But things are different today; it’s not really such a big deal anymore to get THAT Arp sound to come screaming out of your speakers. True Odysseys are about as rare on the used instrument market as are hippies at a particle physics convention. But there have been quite a few “digital” copies made over the years.</font><font size="1">The one caveat: the real fun of an Odyssey is all of the tinkering and knob tweaking, all of the touching and playing with it. That’s why we decided to almost completely reinvent it and give you the Odyssey III with its friendly 24 dB/Oct filter. For your own personal sound lab. To tinker with. To unearth new sounds. To discover X-rays.</font><font size="1">Oh yeah: even if your Prodyssey should sound no different than the original, you’re still one up on those first users from 1972. You’ve also got a Minimoog TM stashed away inside it. Well, sort of... Just press a button, and you can rumble to your heart’s content with the integrated Moog filter......</font>
...CREAMWARE, A WORLD OF WORDS.
Were are the audio examples?!?!?!? I don't understand why they are not posted first.
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Eric
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I understand how you feel. We conservatives in the States are pushing to eliminate all current federal taxes and switch to a single, nationwide sales tax on all new goods, regardless of where they come from. If it happens and it's a success, perhaps Europe will follow!On 2006-06-22 14:28, Shroomz wrote:
Buying *almost* anything from the states is uneconomical for brits & many europeans, as we get shafted for VAT on 2nd hand goods imported. We buy & sell 2nd hand goods within our countries without VAT, but importing 2nd hand goods is another matter. The governments make a lot of money from it which is obscene & makes buying from the states normally worthless.
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Nice drawing from Mr. Schneider, Kraftwerk, when he had purchased a white Odyssey in 1974.
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Analysis in philosophy:
Philosophical analysis, a general term for the techniques used by philosophers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis
Synthesis (from the ancient Greek óýí (with) and èåóéò (placing), is commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements which results in a new creation.
Philosophical synthesis
The term is broad in meaning and can apply to physical, ideological, and/or phenomenological entities. In dialectics, synthesis is the final result of attempts to reconcile the inherent contradiction between thesis and antithesis. Along with the similar concept of integration, synthesis is generally considered to be an important element of modern philosophy, particularly in the various emerging ideas often considered to be holistic (as opposed to reductionistic).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis
Philosophical analysis, a general term for the techniques used by philosophers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis
Synthesis (from the ancient Greek óýí (with) and èåóéò (placing), is commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements which results in a new creation.
Philosophical synthesis
The term is broad in meaning and can apply to physical, ideological, and/or phenomenological entities. In dialectics, synthesis is the final result of attempts to reconcile the inherent contradiction between thesis and antithesis. Along with the similar concept of integration, synthesis is generally considered to be an important element of modern philosophy, particularly in the various emerging ideas often considered to be holistic (as opposed to reductionistic).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis
i never said a a word...