ARP • Axxe

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The Axxe is basically a single VCO monophonic version of the popular Odyssey. The Axxe has a thinner sound than the Odyssey, but it is still angular and powerful. It's a very 'budget' type synth with limited potential. Not at all a very exciting synth that offers little more than cheap access to that ARP-like sound. Unfortunately it has no form of memory storage or external MIDI control. It came with a 155 page text book, overlay sheets, interface charts and a book of 50 patches.

ARP Axxe Image

There was an older version produced, too, which looks like the Odyssey II (aka 2810) with a black face. The Axxe has been used by 808 state, Jude Allen, Adrian Chase, Rick Davis, Baby Ford, Pascal Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, Paddy Kingsland (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), Howard Leese (Heart) and Eat Static.


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gulley jimson
Posted 23 days ago
...and don't forget peter frampton. it was featured heavily on his '77 album, "i'm in you" great record btw.
aaron
Posted 39 days ago
The description of this synth on this site needs a serious update.
program17
Posted 115 days ago
This is one of the best under rated synths EVER,,there are to differnt sound between the black and gold one,and the red and black one..The black and gold one sound like MOOG,because of the filters,and the other one sound like ARp..There both GREAAAAAAtt
tony cromie
Acrobat
Posted 120 days ago
Just got repaired! I missed the punchiness and precision of the envelopes, the massive resonance (the last upper quarter of the Q slider it's ALL feedback!) and noise source w/which you can built nice kicks, percussions and the multiple modulations. Defining it a "single VCO" is kinda reductive, because it has 2 different waveforms + noise mixer and lots of modulation possibilities. I bought it many years ago from a collector which offered me, as an alternative for the same price, a Yamaha CS15D. I took the Axxe because the YAmaha was modified and I wanted a clean, original analogue. Well I certainly did the right choice afterall. This "little tiger" It's all over my production! Cheers.
psidre felix
Posted 150 days ago
When I was a teenager, I found one of these laying at the curb with someone's trash. I didn't know jack about synths. I plugged it in eventually and it just made some crackles. I took the hood off and saw that there were a few places where the wiring needed repaired. A little solder and blam-o! My bud busted out his 606, and we hooked it into the AAXE. Never was the same person again. Whoever left that thing, 1. Thanx and 2. Sorry about YOUR luck. Sad shame though, don't have it anymore. Looking at the pic just makes me want to build something as phat as this thing is. very 8-bit, but very versitile, especially when triggered with external midi. DA**.. miss that thing.
 

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