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.