OWNER'S
MANUAL
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1.0 THIS MANUAL
is
designed
to
serve two
purposes.
1
.01 THE
Fl
RST
is to
serve as an
instruction
book for the
ARP
Model
2600 Electronic Audio
Synthesizer.
1 .02
THE SECOND is
to
serve
as a
genera! introduction
to the terms,
concepts,
and practices
involved in
electronic
sound synthesis. -We
have
designed it
to serve this purpose because, first of all,
there is at
present
no
such
general introduction available,
and second because the
ARP 2600 is specifically
designed for those who have no
prior experi-
ence
either in using
synthesizers or in thinking
about
sound
in the
peculiar way
that working
with a
synthesizer
leads one to think.
1.1 THE PARAGRAPHS in
this
manual are numbered
decimally
to
correspond with
the structure
of topics. The most important general
headings
are numbered
with
a
single digit;
subtopics
under
each head-
ing will
follow
the
digit with
a
decimal point and another
digit, and
so on.
1 .2 THE GENERAL
HEADINGS and their
numbers will
be as
follows.
1
-THE MANUAL.
2
-
ELECTRONIC
SOUND SYNTHESIS AND
SYNTHESIZERS
3
-
THE ARP
2600. A general
description.
4
-
THE ARP
2600 FUNCTIONS. Individually.
5
-
USING
THE ARP
2600. Or:
how to
put it
all together.
6
-
CALIBRATION, MAINTENANCE,
ADJUSTMENT.
With-
out tears.
7
-APPENDIX