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HISTORY Alan Pearlman was an engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1948 when he foresaw the coming age of Electronic Music and Synthesizer s. He wrote: :"''The electronic instrument's value is chiefly as a novelty. With greater attention on the part of the engineer to the needs of the musician, the day may not be too remote when the electronic instrument may take its place ... as a versatile, powerful, and expressive instrument.''" Following 21 years of experience in electronic engineering and entrepreneurship, Pearlman founded ''ARP Instruments'' in 1969 with US$100,000 of personal investment and a matching amount from investors. Throughout the 1970s, ARP was the main competitor to Moog Music in the field of musically useful synthesizers. There were two main camps - the Minimoog players and the ARP Odyssey / ARP 2600 players - with both proponents dedicated to their choice in a very similar manner to the ongoing PC versus Apple debate. Although many musicians preferred the luscious sound and easy patching of the Minimoog, ARP synthesizers were far more flexible in terms of patching and capable of many more extremes of sound than the Minimoog. FAMOUS CLIENTS Some notable ARP users and endorsers include:
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