Alan R. Pearlman, the engineer who founded the synthesizer company ARP Instruments and designed its pioneering equipment, died on Jan. 5 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. His death was confirmed by ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: The '70s is the decade when this new musical synth technology began to really find its feet. Granted, it was still an incredibly expensive preoccupation, but synthesizer development ...

Alan R. Pearlman's inventions changed the course of music history, says his longtime colleague David Friend. The ARP Instruments co-founder died on Jan. 5 at the age of 93. His technologies helped ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cherry Audio is continuing its emulative tour through synth history with Quadra, a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The new range covers both vintage and forward-thinking plugins, with each title available for PC ...

Julian Priester: trombones, baritone horn, post horn, whistle flute, cowbell, small percussion, ARP 2600 synthesizer, Proto-type ARP string synthesizer; Pat Gleeson: ARP 2600 synthesizer, ARP Odyssey ...

Tracks: Vulcan Princess; Yesterday Princess; Lopsy Lu; Power; Spanish Phases for Strings and Brass; Life Suite—Part 1; Life Suite—Part 2; Life Suite—Part 3; Life Suite—Part 4. Personnel: Stanley ...

As a teenager growing up in the prog rock era of 70s in a darkened room with headphones you were never short of mystery keyboard sounds. I would read the back of the LP sleeves and try to imagine some ...

All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic ...

The Arturia V Collection 4 gives you some of the best 1970s and 1980s synthesizers in virtually identical-sounding plug-ins; it's a stellar value, and sure weighs a heck of a lot less than having to ...

By association with ARP, the Solina String Ensemble (1974) was one of the better known machines, offering pad and string-like tones, which could also operate with virtually unlimited polyphony. Many ...