Profile: After passionately working with synthesisers for over 20 years, doing both music and a lot of sound-design, i started a journey in 2012 recreating my favourite synthesiser of all time – the ARP 2600.

As the eurorack format seemed to have the most to offer, and having worked with software/DSP modular’s for quite some time, i soon realised this was the format of my choice rather than locking myself in to a closed structure. Nothing wrong with that obviously (!), just not my kind of thing.
Also, having fiddled around with minor electronics and soldering, repairing synths and doing basic midi controllers, the step in to the world of SDIY wasn’t as steep as i first expected. It went pretty smoothly actually.

What i didn’t expect was the old schematics to be filled with intentional errors and missing parts. This lead to a lot of detective work, which in turn forced me to really get in to the circuits. In addition to the info i could find through the glory of the internet, studying each part obsessively and learning everything i could about it quickly became a must.
A pattern through out the old schematics started to become clear, and i formed some kind of mindset/feel of the old designs and their flow.

I guess it did help not only knowing what kind of sound to expect, but also the behaviour from the circuits at hand.
I have been obsessed with the 2600 since before i even bought my first synthesiser.
Spent years and years (yes, really. i might have a problem) analysing every bit of sample from the 2600 i could get my hands on. Trying to replicate it with the tools i had.
I even have private made sounds just for my personal use to analyse and compare my work with.
Im not only talking about deep audio spectrum analysis now, but the effect various sections in the circuits have on each other. They do have some oddities.
Some might even call them imperfections. I on the other hand see them as features, they contribute a lot to why i feel so much love for this thing.
So staying original as much as i possible can is of great importance to me.

This means a lot of testing and comparing parts have taken place, until i decided on which way to go about substituting the now too old and rare components used in the original. Show less