Behringer asks if we’d like a Solina String Ensemble

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In a post on Gearslutz Uli Behringer has asked the community if they’d be interested in a String Ensemble synthesizer based upon the ARP Solina. Solina As part of the post, Uli attached a pdf marketing document that tells us about all of their thinking so far. It would be in the same desktop/Eurorack format […]

Verv: Sunbaked Tape Loop Synthesizer with added degradation, wow and flutter

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Puremagnetik has a love for tape loops and mellotrons but they also like to mess with things. They wondered what it would be like to use tape loops that had been hanging out in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the whole summer. Assuming that they were still playable […]

Stradivarius EKO: Haunting vintage string synthesizer comes to Kontakt

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Straight out of the 1970’s comes the quite obscure, Italian made EKO-Stradivarius. Vangelis owned one and in the demo video below you can definitely imagine it being favoured by prog-rock keyboardists after some atmospheric vibes. Synth Magic has found one of these rare beasts and has sampled it as a Kontakt instrument for us all […]

SONiVOX blend Arp Solina Strings with analog synthesis and a dash of sequencing

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They are calling it the Solina Redux. A re-imagining of the classic Arp Solina Strings to make it groovier, fruitier and even more heavenly. SONiVOX takes all the original Solina sounds and combines them with a side-order of virtual analogue synthesizer. And then for fun they put in a pair of step-sequences to get the […]