Regular price CAD$3,155.00
SOLAR 42N is a unique experimental electro-music instrument, an analogue microtonal ambient drone machine.
Continuing down the path started by the Solar 50, Elta Music's new Solar 42N 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 42N 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.
This is the MKIII version of the Solar 42, the 42N. Updates on this version include:
- Added speed switch in LFO
- CV control of the right filter
- Simplified effector loading
- Bypass switches removed
- Return to the design of the first model.