Reverb’s holding a sale on Korg’s recent recreation of the ARP 2600 semi-modular synthesizer, the ARP 2600 M. It costs $1,150 instead of the MSRP of $2,000, representing a savings of 42 percent.

The ARP 2600 M is about half the size of the original and one-third the weight. But it still packs all the classic sound design modules.

This synthesizer wasn't originally produced by Korg; rather, it's the work of the now-defunct American company ARP Instruments, which went out of business is 1981.

Cherry Audio is continuing its emulative tour through synth history with Quadra, a “super-accurate and immensely improved” plugin reboot of the ARP synth of the same name.

He utilized a new invention called the ARP String Ensemble synthesizer throughout the special to give the score a distinctive string-laced sound.

The original recording from the 1975 album “Wish You Were Here” used an EMS VCS 3, ARP String Ensemble and Mini-Moog synthesizers.

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

SOUND SYNTHESIZER ... Such equipment became popular in the early 1960s, the major types of which were those created by Donald Buchla (the Buchla Box), Robert A. Moog (the Moog synthesizer), Peter ...