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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

His death was confirmed by his daughter, Dina Pearlman. ARP’s analog synthesizers — particularly the compact, portable ARP Odyssey, introduced in 1972 — grew ubiquitous in pop and electronic music. By ...

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 ...