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ELTA Music announces SOLAR 42 Microtonal Drone Ambient Machine Now Available to Pre-order

8 Aug, 2023 Synthesizers/Keyboard Synthesizers & Modular Synthesizers

ELTA Music has announced that their SOLAR 42 analog microtonal drone ambient machine is now available to pre-order.

The SOLAR 42 is described as “an improved model of the SOLAR 50”, an earlier 50-oscillator/10 voice synthesizer, that they said was designed for making atmospheric sounds, background music, microtonal music, ‘super polyphonic electro symphonies’ and more.

Features:

Two white noise generators.
Two Samples and Holds
Two volt octave VCO voices with different waveform variations, including morphing
Two LFOs as in SOLAR 50.
5 step analogue sequencer
Preamp for contact mic.
Envelope follower
Stereo mixer with panoramic left and right channels
Dual polyvox stereo filter
Dual cartridge effector combiner with CV control. Now you can load a different
effect on each channel.
Stereo audio output
Dry audio outputs volt octave voices
External audio input.
Joystick
Separate push-button keypad for six drone voices
Touch sensitive keypad controller for volt octave voices.
Power supply unit no longer needs to be reset.
Reduced output noise compared to SOLAR 50.

SOLAR 42 is available to pre-order, priced at €1500 + shipping. They expect shipments to start around October 2024. Audio and video demos are to come at the ELTA Music website. For info, contact sales@eltamusic.com.

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