1970's ARP Demo featuring Tom Piggott

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Video Description: Originally aired on WOVB-TV, in association with The Ohio University Telecommunications Center, this is one of several UMATIC demo tapes found in a box when d'ARP (Dina Pearlman-Ifil, Alan Pearlman's daughter) was going through her father's effects.
Tom Piggott was one of several educators that worked at ARP Instruments in the 1970s. He worked closely with Al, helping write the classic: "Learning Music with Synthesizers" David Friend, Alan R. Pearlman, Thomas D. Piggott).

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@regplasma7906 Год назад

Tom's suit reminds me of a ventriloquist doll I used to have as a kid. Fabulous video , I love these early synth demos .

@timthompson468 Год назад

That was awesome. The glitchy intro was actually cool. It shows the video was saved in the nick of time, before the whole thing degraded. It gives it that “found footage” look that people strive for. I’d love to see the bass/strings patch he played. I don’t think I could figure that one out. I need to get back on my 2600s. I managed to get an old orange and black one, and a Korg reproduction, but I haven’t had enough time to really get into them. I’ve been looking for inspiration, and I think this was it.

@paulallen8777 Год назад

This is fantastic. I just got a white Korg Odyssey. Amazing Deodato style Rhapsody in Blue at 22:49

@sawsquaresinetube Год назад

Happy Birthday to your father. Thank you so much for sharing, the tape degradation at the beginning just gives this great character. Love this!

@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135 Год назад

agree

@commodoor6549 Год назад

I was thinking the same thing... nice glitching because why not.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Thank you, and glad you agree!

@MassimoBoscoMusic Год назад

This instruments could have a future.

@compfox Год назад

Nah! No one will listen to this synthetic kind of music even ten years later.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

@@compfox 😏

@kevinsturges6957 Год назад

In 1974 Genesis used that ARP ProSoloist all over their The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway album very effectively. 😊

@brunoprimas1483 Год назад

"Selling England By The Pound" as well. "The Cinema Show" especially.

@ohmtronseedling Год назад

don't forget Trick Of The Tail!

@kevinsturges6957 Год назад

@@ohmtronseedling : Yes! 😊❤️

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Thank you! We also have a video interview I did with Tony Banks from Genesis. (PS: If you like this please video, please like our page to follow us! )

@thebreathalyzer Год назад

Many thanks for sharing this wonderful video!!!!

@Rocketbunny71 Год назад

Thanks so much for sharing. In my view, every kid in school should be show this type of program or something similar. I wonder how many more grass roots modern musicians we would get rather than all the manufactured dross we have to put up with these days. A fascinating video, thanks!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Yes! Tom is a master educator and is teaching to this day!

@kd7alt Год назад

Love the ARP's. I miss mine. Sych a rich sounding keyboard

@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135 Год назад

classic synth

@zafod101 Год назад

That intro music sounded great

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Please donate to fhe foundation to help make videos like this possible as well as further our archives, create ARPs for All and more! alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/donate/

@RichardDenRooyen1973 Год назад

the 2600... impress me every time i hear something

@thefool2007 Год назад

Awesome film.

@W1RMD Месяц назад

This was really cool! Thanks. Any idea exactly what year this was made?

@boothbuster Год назад

haha @20:15 I thought he was going to start playing that Wiz Khalifa song! And when he was doing the noise sequences, sounded like he was about to produce some techno.

@noscrubbubblez6515 Год назад

'Switched On Bach' gave the best samples of Moog. I mean the best music that used Moog.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Год назад

Moog was a rival to ARP.

@j.talbert9043 Год назад

SoB certainly helped introduce the synthesizer to the masses, but covered only a fraction of what was possible with a modular synth.

@TheSpecialCostumeShop 10 месяцев назад

pouring fizzy water on frosty the snowman 11:54

@learnmusic488 Год назад

I’m gonna take a guess that this was 1973.

@shaofu424 Год назад

rad \m/\m/

@LADY_JEMIMA_FORTESCUE Год назад

well tech had to start somewhere

@bobbobson4069 Год назад

England says that this is the most boring video ever!

@blueeyedsoulman 7 месяцев назад

Considering it's over 50 years later and we are just beginning to offer polyphonic aftertouch and these instruments are fetching 10's of thousands of dollars I'd say modern designers are not to bright with the exception of Roger Linn. We could do way better. Music is far worse off right now.

@rachelar Год назад

🤡 🎶 🎹

@leepshin Год назад

Who the hell is this "Tom Piggot"? The man just sits there thinking "when do I get paid"?

@TheArpomni2 Год назад

Never knew you could get the string sound as good as that on the 2600,

@josephramone5805 Год назад

Josef Zawinul was a master of the Arp 2600 and made incredible patches with it that have stood the test of time.

@john678 Год назад

Loved this, thanks ! Great reminder of why I fell in love with ARP. They did great demos at music stores, sent out demo discs. Got the original ARP Odyssey, couldn’t afford the 2600 but now have remake. They were great times

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

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@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Год назад

Ah, the analog imperfections ... 4:11 That square wave sounds every so slightly brassy, because the flat parts are not horizontal, so there’s a little bit of sawtooth in there. 4:39 That sine wave is far from pure. Note that the rising and falling parts are too close to straight lines, like the triangle wave. This contaminates the sound with odd harmonics.

@Imetalman2000 Год назад

This is low key a top tier beginner’s video manual. Super educational and entertaining.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

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@fretnesbutke3233 Год назад

My 2 favorite toys in 1980 at the age of 21 :my Tascam 4 track Portastudio,and my MIDI guitar prototype,the ARP Avatar. Most synthesizers were monophonic back then. I had just begun at Cleveland State U majoring in Music Theory/Composition. I had so much fun with those buggers! Some of the best years of my life.

@JamesBermingham Год назад

This video make me realize how privileged I am to live in such an advanced technological age. Access to this equipment in the 70s was on available to a very limited amount of people. Now its everywhere

@_P_M_ Год назад

Breaking into Rhapsody in Blue and making it work with only 3 notes to work with was some pretty impressive playing. A lot of really experimental ideas applied musically too. Very nice!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

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@feline1973 Год назад

My god, at about 23 minutes after the boring technical stuff, this guy is suddenly just ON FIRE! :-D

@Ohaechesi Год назад

That old TV flickering brings back some childhood nostalgia

@jeffjfindley4802 Год назад

Dear Christ who is this man and why am I only hearing of him now?!?!

@macronencer Год назад

What a magnificent thing to find! Thank you for sharing this gem. The jam at the end is seriously impressive stuff. No presets in those days, and very limited polyphony (in this case, 2+1 on the Odyssey and 2600, I believe?) An amazing demo.

@Usul Год назад

Thank you for uploading this. These are still iconic sounds and instruments, years later.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

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@jakobole Год назад

Fun to hear tune I mixed and mastered for Alex Balls ARP-documentary being used elsewhere. Greets from Sonic Peak Studio.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Hello! Thank you!

@jakobole Год назад

@@AlanRPearlmanFoundation you're most welcome. You might not know it, but I mixed and mastered most of the songs on Alex Ball's ARP - documentary - it was pure joy to work with. Of course the material was top-notch, but the synth-sounds were as well. Superb instruments.

@musicboy2003 Год назад

Thank you for this important piece of synthesizer history 😊people forget that the very first synth was the pipe organ, which was the most complex human mechanical achievement for centuries. Now we are in the digital era. Such a wonderful demonstration put on by Mr. Piggott.

@Discrimination_is_not_a_right Год назад

Organs aren't electronic, nor do they generate waveforms the way a synthesizer does. They are keyboard wind instruments.

@joelizquierdo8624 Год назад

This is awesome 😎 I love my ARP Solus and my ARP2600. I love vintage videos and yes Love the suit. If you squint your eyes 👀 he even resembles John Lennon on Synthesizers.

@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135 Год назад

i'm thinking about getting the arp2600

@ohmtronseedling Год назад

oooh, you have a Solus? i had one of those many moons ago. don't see too much about those.

@Monoaux 11 месяцев назад

Did the og ARP Soloist have a "drum" setting?

@Kkidzz Год назад

Lapels have a drag coefficient of 0.98

@ohmtronseedling Год назад

this is an excellent video- not too complicated, simple explainations of synthesizers, a bold fashion statement AND dude can totally play! a fine, entertaining watch. thanks for posting.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

You're welcome and thank you as well!!!!! ! If you like this please video, please like our page to follow us!

@j.talbert9043 Год назад

Great demo of the ARP lineup. Now waiting for Korg to reissue the Pro Soloist!

@colinfuidge8660 Год назад

The good old days when information and facts were more important than the presenter.

@multiversum Год назад

👍👍👍 Thanks for uploud. GREAT!!!!!! How can a man know all this knobs an ideas?

@mokujinsan9946 Год назад

That suit has another 3 VCOs.

@toolman8269 Год назад

My goodness! I recently got a new (Korg) ARP 2600 and I am enjoying the hell out of it. I would LOVE to know all about the crazy patching going on with the 2600 here in this video. How did he get the bass sound with the quick playing and then the strings sound when he played legato? Very cool video!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

It's a shame that the cords are the same color, as it would be much easier to stop the video and try to imitate the patch. There is a wonderful patch book I know of....

@toolman8269 Год назад

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation : Indeed! I downloaded the original ARP 2600 Patchbook, and I'm enjoying trying them all. I agree about the patch cord colors.

@j.talbert9043 Год назад

I’m guessing he used the ring mod as a secondary VCA routing the ADSR to one and the AD to the other.

@uv77mc85 Год назад

I didn't know the 2600 could do that but i assume he sent 2 oscillators to the ADSR for the strings and 1 to the AR for the bass.

@mattkaz9604 Год назад

It's a good rundown, and his suit is entirely badass. Good video.

@TheAJW50 Год назад

And yet, many years later, even on expensive keyboards, aftertouch is a special addition not the norm! Why?

@Byron101_ Год назад

YES! that was the time when the synthesizer musicians could still really play the keyboard and read notes....

@MrDiscobitch Год назад

People still do that today grandad

@ConceptJunkie Год назад

Yeah, that was some serious playing. Reminds me of Wakeman!

@davidvanpelt802 Год назад

Brilliant stuff! Those strings on the 2600 sound beautiful

@arcadeapocalypsemusic Год назад

Yess they do!!!

@iamyourfuture808 6 месяцев назад

dude knows his way around a keyboard for sure

@Heavy_Distortion Год назад

His clothing is groovy man.

@chrisschulz2000 Год назад

Thank you to these gentlemen for the great amount of information on this video, ... something unheard of in those times and unbelievable even today ... THANKS whoever you are!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Tom Piggott was and still is an expert in the field of music education! If you like this please video, please like our page to follow us, we have more!

@erikrhafer6644 Год назад

Very proud to be the 1,000 the 👍

@frankmuscato7741 Год назад

Great info on the synth world in its infancy 🎼🎶👍

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

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@RedMeansRecording Год назад

My life for Comic Wow

@clivemathieu9386 Год назад

My life is complete

@DrMilde Год назад

Ok this is really fascinating Here is my question ... I understand the self oscillating filter , but how does he spread an shrink the range of the keyboard to create this micro tonality ?? Any genius out there,that could explain that to me please 😊

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Tom is using the slider under the VCF which allows the keyboard CV to control the filter. If you lower that you are able to attenuate the CV before it reaches the filter which reduces the pitch change from the keyboard controller Setting it halfway reduces that range approximately by half and playing an octave on the keyboard results in a pitch change of only half an octave. So the semitone or half tone now is a quarter tone. The further you bring it down, the closer the pitch is.

@GNeuman Год назад

I still think the Odyssey is the King of Analogue Synths

@securityrobot Год назад

You’re setting yourself up for an argument 😂 Good luck.

@GNeuman Год назад

@@securityrobot 🤣🤣🤣

@j.talbert9043 Год назад

Maybe not the king, but it’s certainly among a limited royalty. I don’t believe there is a single king synthesizer.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

join us ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L0T_eRquSlU.html an Interview with TOm!

@offworldnetwork 6 месяцев назад

Picked up my 1975 Arp Axxe in 1984 for the princely sum of £75. It doesnt get used much these days but when i do set it up im always blown away by the simplicity and warmth. video clip here ...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4aHoynhp9Z0.html

@electronicsandewastescrapp7384 Год назад

funky worm pops his head up at 3:19

@Michel-r6m 5 месяцев назад

Born in 1972 it is hard to understand what impact synths like the 2600 and Odyssey (a.o.) had on people. I remember on some (hard)rock albums it was mentioned that no synthesizers were used on their album 😂 Great video, thanks for sharing 🤠

@arcadeapocalypsemusic Год назад

This is priceless!

@JimAlfredson Год назад

Who knew Artie Ziff was into synthesizers?!?

@iLikeTheUDK Год назад

18:40 groovy

@TheAJW50 Год назад

Don’t let the suit fool you. He is PROFESSOR PROG!

@adolfnoise4673 3 дня назад

cute.

@Ashfaq1999 2 месяца назад

Great 🎶

@aurelionasvw Год назад

nossa muito show mesmo o som desses equipamentos é d+

@henrikpersson4698 Год назад

thanks, what a lovely video

@marguskiis7711 Год назад

Only Tony Banks could use it properly.

@SamLowryDZ-015 Год назад

oh please - the only member of Genesis NOT to have a successful solo career.

@marguskiis7711 Год назад

@@SamLowryDZ-015 Er, Mike`s solo career wasn`t a very successful either. Mike and Mechanics is not the "solo", it was still a band,

@SamLowryDZ-015 Год назад

@@marguskiis7711 Don't split hairs - His name is up front, it's his project and he is the only constant member. No different to what Steve Hackett does. By all measures Banks outside of Genesis was a failure and you can see in interviews it irks him.