2600 tutorials?

[MtotheC]

Okay, since buying the V Collection last week, this synth has become my favorite. However, my understanding of how to program it is like me learning Chinese
Are there any online tutorials?
thnx

[Futureline]

Hi.
I'm in the exactly same position as you, just bought the V-collection myself, and struggeling to figure it all out..  ;-)
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be too many GOOD tutorials out there, so I would advice you to download the old manuals for the ARP2600, and search the youtube for some too.
Also, a smart thing to do is to download the old patchbook for the original,- you can find it here: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/07/arp-2600-patch-book-full-scan-in-pdf.html
That gives you some advice on how this works, but there's no easy way..  ;-)

It can also be helpful to use a blank patchsheet to write down your own patches,- kind of oldfashioned, but many still prefer to have this option.  :-)
You can find that here: http://sonic.net/mjones/archive/docs/

Finally, in the manual,- on page 69 where you start to program your first bass-preset, there's an error:
It says that you should use the preset "temp/blank),- well that doesn't excist,- you'll have to use the preset "2_Osc", same preset with  the only difference that it's allready programmed to sound.
Bank: Templates - Synth - 2_Osc.

Just my two cents.  ;-)

[MtotheC]

awesome.  thank you!  I'll check out the links

[Futureline]

About tutorials, there's a great series called Synt Secrets, that Sound on Sound magazine finished about 10 years ago, it covers absolutely everything regarding analog and digital synthesis,- with good examples on how to make specific imitations of instruments and sounds.
It's quite long, it went over a period of 4 years, and has 63 tutorials/instructions, so for a soundprogrammer it is some stuff to dig into there.  :-)
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

It may be a bit difficult to just have it as websides like that, but if you want to put some effort in to it,- you could maybe use Adobe Pro (or a similar program) to make pfd-documents of all the webside tutorials, I've done it with a few of those, and it helps me a lot having them on the ipad while I work on the instruments.

[aaron aardvark]

I should have figured this out earlier: moving VCF Init.Filter Frequency slider for the Frankenstein sound effect; I made it sound better by adding ARP2600V stereo delay also.

Thank you Futureline!