Elta Solar 42F Black Version
Continuing down the path started by the Solar 50, Elta Music's new Solar 42 is a refinement of their ambient Machine concept: a thoroughly explorative synthesizer with increased emphasis on melodic playability. While Solar 50 was a massive, 10-voice drone synthesizer with a whopping 50 oscillators, Solar 42 offers a slightly more streamlined set of eight voices but with more variation among each of them.
For starters, voices 4 and 5 feature 1V/Oct pitch inputs—something that was entirely absent from Solar 50—supporting melodic pitch control via sequencing or external controllers. Voices 1, 2, 6, and 7 provide the same flavor of swarming drone oscillators from Solar 50, but now voices 3 and 8 offer noise generators, FM, and other ways to coax more timbres out of Solar 42 compared to its predecessor.
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Two v/oct morphing VCO voices
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Two white noise generators
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Multifunctional touch-sensitive keypad controller
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Six drone voices with separate push-button keypad
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Dual POLIVOKS filter
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Two S&H generators
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Five LFO generators
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5-step sequencer
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CV Joystick
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Preamp for contact mic + envelope follower
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Stereo mixer with panoramic left and right channels
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Dual cartridge effector combiner with CV control. Now you can load a different effect on each channel
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Stereo audio output
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Dry audio outputs volt octave voices. External audio input
The next batch of Solar 42 will be the F version
Changes compared to the previous version:
- New, stable filter circuit
- Stereo distortion in the filter section
- Fixed all bugs and errors
- Fixed all the bugs and errors that were in the previous batch
- Added sub oscillators in volt octave voices
- Less noise, headphone volume knob does not rustle, stable power supply, 4. Slightly modified graphics - for convenience, inputs are labeled in black, outputs in red - Band Pass and Stereo distortion mode added to the filter - Bypasses for each channel of the effector
- LED indication in the joystick unit
- Toggle switches replaced by buttons in many places - Version 3 of firmware for the touch controller
- Color separation of blocks using the controls. Blue - drone voices, green - volt octave voices, red - CV sources. Black - mixer, Orange - effector.
- Separate outputs of volt octave voices are brought to the front panel on mini-jacks
- Small changes in design
- LIN/EXP input CV switch
