From jocke@netcontrol.fiMon Apr 3 11:15:46 1995 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:31:51 +0300 (EET DST) From: Joachim Verghese To: mpulver@netcom.com Cc: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: ARP Pro Soloist... > On Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:20:05 -0500 (EST) The Color and the Surge wrote: > > >So, does anyone know anything interesting about the Arp Pro-Soloist? I > >found one of these for $40.00... It's kind of cheesy, but fun. It can make > >the most interesting farty noises, especially with no sound selected and > >aftertouch turned way up... You can press down on a keys (causing the > >entire keyboard to flex downward) and get this low rumbling sound... It surely gives a pretty cheesy impression, but internally, it really is a great piece of engineering. The low pass filter is a slightly modified 4-pole Moog-type ladder filter, one of the best ever made, IMO. There are also lots of high pass and band pass filters for shaping the sounds. The worst thing, of course, is that it is preset and it only has one oscillator. > Are you into Genesis at all? Tony Banks did most of the solo work on > "Selling England by the Pound" with a Pro Soloist. Yes, practically any Genesis record between '73 and '77 featured the Pro-Soloist. The ELEC GUITAR 1 preset was one of Banks' favorites. -joachim