CMS website

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Synthfool at aol.com

   Phil Cirocco sent me a few pics of his stuff and I hacked up a quick webpage
   for him. He builds and modifies synths and does very quality work.

   If you like Arps, you'll probably like this page-

   http://www.synthfool.com/cms/cms.html

Woah.  What the hell?  Look at that!  Wow!  I had no idea people were
doing things like that!  Please tell us more!

Pic's 1, 2 & 3:

Is this an ARP 2600 done *right*?  

The 2600 is of course an historically important and really fine
machine, but it suffers from a bunch of, well, errors.  The single
giant front panel means that it's not really a "modular" in the sense
that there are no actual modules; nothing can be swapped, changed, or
added in.  The choice of sliders was considered extra groovey in 1972
or whenever, but today we know that the reliablity of sliders is a
disaster, and they're just more difficult to control accurately with a
human hand than a traditional rotary pot.  And the choice of 1/8-inch
micro phone jacks was nice in that they save panel space, but they're
not reliable and they don't interface well with the outside world.

So is this an attempt to fix all that?  Look, there's big knobs to
fine tune the VCOs; that's great.   What else is going on here?  Are
there extra modules?  I guess I have to go over the photos closely
and take careful notes.  

I can't make out size real well here; the panel looks a bit on the
crowded side.

(And sorry, but the case is ugly.)

I love how the graphics have exactly the same look as the original
Arp.  

Small system:

This is adorable!

Odysseys:

What the hell is this?!?!  Odyssey expanders?  With oodles of patch
points?  How cool!  Look how neatly they're mounted!

Arp city:

Wow!  

I like this a lot.

  -- Don