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Christmas 1976 my parents gave me an Arp Axxe, which was a simpler, less-expensive version of the much more famous Odyssey [1]. It was great for a kid to learn about electronic music because the controls were laid out to where you could visualize the signal flow. It also came with a great textbook. I learned a lot about sound and analog signal processing as well as had a lot of fun. May Mr. Pearlman rest in peace. 1:…
Awesome parents.
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The MS-20m kit's sales were slow enough that they had a blowout at the end of production - not an encouraging sign for Korg, in terms of making a relatively inexpensive 2600 reissue. Behringer, on the other hand, is likely on the case.
I don’t remember that at all. In fact I think in Europe they sold out really quickly as it is the ultimate model and although expensive, was still sought after.
Double-checking my memory, Reverb listings from 2017 are showing it selling secondhand for $700-$900.
More recently, the last one that sold on eBay went for $1500+, and the one that's on Reverb now is listed, quite absurdly, for about $2500.
I was in the middle of some really expensive construction at the time, and just didn't have any room for non-essential spending.