via this auctionYou might recognize this one from this post. ARP Odyssey Lumina modded by Phil Cirocco of CMS
"It may sound hyperbolic, but, I sincerely believe this to be the finest Arp Odyssey on earth.
This Odyssey sat in Phil Cirocco's personal collection, selected by him as the ideal candidate for the nearly obscene LED-slider retrofit, the first ever done, and it is, indeed, beautiful.
A white face Odyssey, it is already among the best. However, Phil took it as far as one can. This is the very same ARP 2800 shown on Phil's site here:
http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/arptronics/arp2800.htm
Upgrades...
The most obvious upgrade to this Odyssey is with the sliders. Every slider has been replaced with a new sort of slider which contains color-coded LEDs appropriate to the Odyssey heritage. These sliders feel incredible, they move beautifully and sit where they're left... it is an entirely different experience using an Odyssey with sliders this clean and precise. It is truly a player's synth, now.
There are some lovely touches with this upgrade: the LFO slider blinks at the LFO rate, as do both envelope slider LED sets, brightening and darkening in time with the envelope. Beautiful.
The CMS audio path and filter upgrades have also been applied. Filter cutoff range is lifted from a mere 11khz to 28khz. The audio path upgrade cleans the entire signal path, the bass clarity is absolutely terrifying, to neighbors, pets and your recording tools.
The power supply has been rebuilt to last another twenty years.
Other upgrades: the turbo switch has been added for incredibly fast envelope response and there are input jacks for CV and gate control of the instrument (shown in the photographs to the right) - wonderful for use with analog sequencers and MIDI to CV converters of all kinds."
I sure wish he'd make the upgrade kit available.
ReplyDeleteI've emailed him twice about it since June to no avail.
Even without the illumination, having nice sliders on the Odyssey would be wonderful.
Are there LED knobs? Been daydreaming about designs of something like that, to be specific, something built in such a way that you can see it's position from any angle in any light. Complete with a crazy small battery compartment!
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