GLOSSARY 17 2 BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS Attenuator: on the Odyssey, a Odyssey: the ultimate musical Sub-audio range (Low frequency): Jr D slider that lets sjgnal through trip. pitches that are below what . when it's up and cuts it off your ear can hear as a tone. Oscillator (VCO}: generates tone. when it's down. Phase: the relationship of one waveform to another. Trigger: an electronic impulse Filter (VCF}: changes tone color. Audio range: the range of pitches sine waves sine waves in phase. out of phase. put out by a keyboard or low Amplifier (VCA}: controls volume. that your ear can hear. frequency oscillator that starts ~er---~ ~'--"-'---· the envelope generator. Envelope Generator (ADSR and Harmonics: overtones. The more AR): controls attack and decay. harmonics are present, the Voltage control: on a synthesizer, it more brilliance the sound will means substituting an electrical ONIC have. Phase-synchronization: using signal for manual control of pitch, one oscillator to control the brilliance, volume, and attack & Hertz(Hz): an electronic term ... "I phase of another oscillator of decay. Frequency: pitch. meaning "cycles per second." The human ear can hear pitches different pitch. Waveform: tone. Different shapes Timbre: tone color. from 20 tG 20,000 cycles per Pitch bend: control of the of waveforms have different Amplitude: volume second, or 20Hertz to 20 frequency of a note while timbre: j Envelope: attack and decay shape. kiloHertz. (20Hz - 20KHz). it's being played. Square: n._ru-u Highpass filter (HPF): changes Portamento: a glissando, or sounds hollow, reedy. dys timbre by cut.ting off low sliding between notes. ODYSSE'r .. E. MS Pulse: fL....n_fL_j harmonics and passing high Resonance:"wow" control. In sounds thin, nasal. ADSR and AR:· ones. electronic terms, a control that Electronic Music Synthesizer attack, decay, sustain release. amplifies a narrow band of · Sawtooth: ~ Internal clock: adjustable low overtones. sounds rich, full, brassy Learn to take frequency oscillator. Sample & hold: produces a series Sine: ~ Lowpass filter (VCF} : changes of steps, which can control sounds smooth, round, pure. Y:={) timbre by cutting off high yourself on pitch, volume, or brilliance. harmonics and passing low. Triggers itself automatically. Ring modulator: produces aFand rele&: ones. a single complex output signal Mixer: combines signals. which contains all the sums and the ultimate Noise: a random signal that differences of the two inputs. sounds like a "hiss." musical trip! uid-- ~~ Your ARP synthesizer is warranted for the original purchaser only against defects in materials or workmanship for one full year from date of purchase. ODYSSEY In case of defect, repairs will be made without charge when the synthesizer is shipped, r.'\ transportation prepaid, properly packed, to the nearest ARP authorized service center. These warranties do nbt cover defects resulting from accident, alteration, improper use, l2J GUIDE unauthorized repairs, tampering, or failure of the purchaser to follow normal operating procedures outlined in the user's manual, nor, for example, does it cover damage resulting from acts of God , such as, flood, tornadoes, or lightning. Parts replaced under these warranties are warranted only Table of contents through the remaining portion of the original warranty. Setup .................. 3 Instant Odyssey . 18 This warranty becomes effective only when the ARP Warranty Registration card is properly filled Voltage control . 4 2-Voice with Pedal . 19 out with all the required information and received at ARP INSTRUMENTS, INC. within 14 days 5 from the date of purchase. Assembling a sound. Phase-Synchronized Oscillator . .. .. 20 The foregoing warranties are in lieu of all other warranties express, implied, o r statutory, including Signal sources . 6 Guitar-Leslie . .............. 21 but not limited to any implied warranty or merchantability or fitness, and all other obligations or The "assembly line". ....... ... 7 Trumpet . 22 liabilities of ARP INSTRUMENTS, INC. In no event shall ARP INSTRUMENTS, INC. be liable for Phase synchronization . .. 8 Trumpet Chorus . 23 special or consequential damages, or for any delay in the performance of this warranty due to Ring modulation . 9 String Chorus . ·. 24 causes beyond its control. Vo ltage controlled filter . 10 Flute. 25 Highpass filter & Amplifier. 11 Electric Bass, . 26 If your Odyssey fails during the first year after purchase, contact the dealer from whom it was Envelope generators. .12 · 'Hammond-Leslie'. 27 purchased or the factory to obtain the name and address of the nearest A RP authorized service Low fre quency oscillator . ....... 13 Sample & Hold Percussion . 28 center. Do not return your Odyssey to the factory without getting prior approval. You are responsible for getting your Odyssey safely to the service center and back. If you ship your Sample & hold. 14, 15 Banjo with Repeat . 29 Odyssey, be certain to insure it for its full value and enclose a note describing the problem. And Keyboard & pedals . .16 Gong/Chime. 30 pack it well. It's a variable synthesizer ! . : . .17 IMPORTANT! The enclosed Warranty card must be returned to the factory within 14 days of purchase. SET UP YOUR ODYSSEY 1. Remove the instrument from its shipping 5. A foot switch and pedal control have been carton. Do not throw the carton a:nd packing supplied with your Odyssey. Connect these to materials away. They can be used to protect the rear panel jacks labeled "pedal" and the Odyssey in transportation. "switch." The pedal is not .a simple volume 2. The Odyssey should be placed on a firm control such as you are familiar with if you support about 30" off the floor so that its key­ have played electronic organs; it is an integral board is at a comfortable playing height. An part of the Odyssey and is essential for realis­ optional performance stand is available from ing the full potential of the instrument. your dealer. 6. You are now ready to make music with 3. Connect the power cord to a grounded your Odyssey. You can begin immediately, 110-117 V AC electrical outlet. The power if you wish, by turning to the end of this man­ ual and setting up any one of the "patches" ROCK STAR ENGINEER CLASSICAL JAZZMAN switch in the upper right corner of the control panel will light up when the Odyssey is turned given there. There are thousands of patches ~,/ on. you can discover on your own, and in the next few pages of this manual we will show you, in 4. Like all electronic musical instruments, the simplified form, how you can discover some Odyssey must be connected to an amplifier of them. and loudspeaker system in order to produce sounds. The phone jack labeled "low level" 7. Until you are quite familiar with the range on the back of the instrument is for use with of sounds your Odyssey can produce, it will standard musical instrument amplifiers. The be a good idea to keep the tone controls of smaller phono (RCA) jack next to it is la­ your amplifier set to their "flat" or normal Copyright ARP Instruments, Inc. position. Later on, of course, you can use 0 !Inn 320 Needham Street beled "high level" and should be used in ~ Newton, Mass. 02164 connecting your Odyssey to a tape recorder, them freely, together with reverberation if stereo amplifier, or electronic organ. your amplifier provides it. First Printing . .. November, 7972 ARP ODYSSEY Page 3 PROFESSOR FAN Setup HOW YOUR ODYSSEY WORKS 5. The ARP Odyssey contains about a dozen modifiers; i.e., control signal sources, some­ separate pieces of equipment (plus a few extra times simply called controllers. 1. Most purely electronic musical instruments controls such as the portamento and pitch teresting can be controlled not only manually 6. The front panel of your Odyssey shows the work by generating certain kinds of "raw" bend controls on the far left of the panel.) but also, in several important respects, auto­ general assembly-line setup (Figure A). Thus, sounds from circuits called oscillators. These These can be connected to each other in many matically. This is the principle of voltage to reach your amplifier and loudspeaker system, raw sounds (not usually very pleasant or musi­ different ways by the switches and sliders to control, which means controlling the operation a signal must pass through this"assembly line." cal sounding by themselves) are then modified produce thousands of different "assembly pro­ of your synthesizer by means of changing volt­ This is the heart of your Odyssey. By using by other circuits such as filters to make them grams" or patches. Each patch requires: ages as well as changing slider positions. Some the sliders and switches of the audio mixer, musically useful. In a very general way, th is is of the circuits in your Odyssey exist only in Audio signals from the a. at least one piece of equipment to gen­ you can select the raw material for processing how your Odyssey works, but there are im­ order to produce such control signals. (Some erate the raw material from which the sound by the voltage controlled filter (VCF), the portant differences. two voltage controlled of these are the sample/hold circuit, the two oscillators (VCO 1 and is to be made; i.e., a signal source. high pass filter (HPF), and the voltage con­ 2. One difference is that the synthesizer gives envelope generators, the L FO, and the key­ VCO 2), the noise gen­ b. at least one piece of equipment to modi­ trolled amplifier (VCA). In the next few pages, board. ) you complete control over every step of the erator, and ring modu­ fy the raw material and make it usable; i.e., we will show you exactly what each part of process that turns a raw sound into an inter­ 4. In a modern manufacturing plant many lator are mixed and a signal modifier.