via this auction
For those interested, the seller has a ton of vintage computer books listed here.
"Published the same year electro-industrial pioneers Kraftwerk released their breakthrough album "Autobahn," here's a wonderful, rare tutorial on creating electronic music with analog synthesizers, focusing specifically on the ARP Odyssey, their scaled-down version of the ARP 2600 console. Apart from a little cover wear, the book is in very good condition. 213 pages. First edition, copyright 1974. This item ships WORLDWIDE."
I think this book was an underrated factor in the Odyssey becoming the most popular synthesizer of the 1970s. Keep in mind, in those days you had to program the instrument yourself before every tune. You had to know the basics of sound synthesis, and there was nobody around to teach you. This book was meant to solve that problem, and it did a good job. (I have a copy.) I don't know of any comparable book for any other instrument of that era.
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