You Probably Already Have It

I don't know if they do it anymore, but Arturia used to produce really great manuals for their soft synths. Hopefully I've got them saved somewhere if they don't. One of the first things I bought when I got really deep into electronic music composition in the early teens was whatever they're calling the big collection, the X or whatever. Everything sounded really cool. My goal at the time was how do I do the Rio arpeggiator? I didn't understand. Actually had 2 goals: first goal was how do I get the opening sound of Don't Stand So Close to Me? Figured that one out through purchasing gear.--Minitaur. #2 was the Duran Duran's "Rio" arp. I thought it was synth specific. Turns out it's just any random arpeggiator. Jupiter type thing. I think it was the Jupiter 4. That's when I really fell in love with the Roland synths again. Re-in-love, because the first synth I fell in love with, the JX-3P, of course, covered here in prior posts. But somewhere along the way my love of the Arturia…