ARP 2600 M

The ARP 2600 M:

• Analog Synthesizer
• Clone of the ARP 2600 (1970 - 1980)
• Monophonic or duophonic playable
  
• Semi-modular
  
• Three analog oscillators
  
• Filter switchable between ARP and Moog character
  
• Two envelopes
• Preamplifier with envelope follower
• Ring modulator
• Noise generator
• Voltage processor
• Open Sample & Hold with own clock
• Multiple
• Analog spring reverb
• Stereo loudspeaker
• USB host for MIDI keyboards
• incl. high quality road case
• incl. patch cable
  

One million sounds

The three analog oscillators deliver a stately sound foundation and can be continuously adjusted over a very wide frequency range. While the first and the third oscillator have to make do with sawtooth and square, the second one additionally delivers sine and triangle. Complex modulations among the tone generators can be done in no time. In addition, there is the ring modulator and the noise generator with crossfadeable character. If you want, you can feed two oscillators with square waveform into the open Sample & Hold circuit and thus create analog bitcrush! If all sound sources are tuned in the mixer, these run together in the Lowpass filter. ARP has integrated both filter generations here, which were built in at the time. 4012 corresponds to the classic Moog filter with smooth resonance, 4072 is the typical ARP filter with grainy resonance. The end of the signal chain is the Stereo-VCA with panorama control and the wonderful rattling spring reverb effect, which contributes to the vintage sound of the Korg 2600 M.

Flexibility is everything

The 2600 M as a whole is a guarantor of varied sounds that should appeal to experimental musicians and producers alike. This is not only due to all the tone generating and shaping elements, but also to the flexible possibilities to combine, mix and bend tones and modulations. What can't be done directly, i.e. pulling up a fader, can be modified via the Voltage Processor matching. In addition, there is nothing to stop you from beautifuling one of the oscillators in the Low Mode together with the Sample & Hold through the ring modulator and controlling the filter cutoff with the ring modulated CV.

Semi-modular

The 2600 M is semi-modular; this means that some connections, for example from the oscillator to the mixer, are internal, but if you need a different signal, this is simply replaced by patching. The same applies to all modulations: if a different control voltage source or a variant of it is needed, additional patch cables are used. Helpful here is also the imprint on each socket, which signal is present there by default.

Use as an effect device

Thanks to the preamp with envelope follower, the instrument can be perfectly used for processing other sources such as a drum machine. The synthesizer part can be completely integrated here: the CV output of the envelope follower opens the VCA and at the same time controls the pitch of the oscillator, which modulates the filter. All this can then still be distributed in the panorama and chase through the analog spring reverb.

Free music software

Free of charge, ARP provides an extensive software package as download. For changes and runability on Windows and Mac systems, please refer to the Korg homepage.

For iPad/iPhone:

• Korg Gadget 2 Le
• Korg Module

For Mac/PC:

• Korg Collection M1 Le
• UVI Digital Synsations
• AAS ultra analogue Session
• AAS Strum Session
• AAS Lounge Lizard Session
• Reason Studios Reason lite
• iZotope Ozone Elements
• Skoove educational software